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'80s Vamps #3: Near Dark (Episode 52)
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English - October 22, 2022 17:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsTV & Film vampire movies vampire films Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
For this October's theme, Leah and Bri are covering some 1980's vampire classics! This week, we're chatting about Kathryn Bigelow's vampire-Western Near Dark (1987). This episode is marked explicit for a few f-bombs, as usual.
Show Notes/Supplemental Reading:
Sarah Welch-Larsen for Bright Wall/Dark Room on how the film engages with the myth of individualism and the history of settler colonialism in the American West: https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2022/08/03/youre-gonna-give-me-back-my-spur/
Scott Tobias on Near Dark for his former column "The New Cult Canon" over at the old AV Club: https://www.avclub.com/the-new-cult-canon-near-dark-1798215134
John Squires for Bloody Disgusting, writing about Bill Paxton's indelible performance in Near Dark on the occasion of the actor's death: https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3426304/near-dark-highlighted-everything-special-bill-paxton/
And a brand new one! Eric Hehr for Aquarium Drunkard's Videodrome column, on how Near Dark handles exposition: https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2022/10/19/videodrome-near-dark-1987/
Sound effects credits:
“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/)
"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/)
Support the showSound effects credits:
“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/)
"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/)