Near Dark Page #2

Synopsis: A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Kathryn Bigelow
Production: Lions Gate Films
  1 win & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
R
Year:
1987
94 min
165 Views


I can smell it.

You slap me if i'm sleepin',

Cause i wanna wake up.

Guess what?

Who the hell

Are you people?

I'm jesse hooker.

I believe you already Met mae.

Diamondback.

I'm you're worst

F***in' nightmare.

Severen.

And i'm homer.

That's h-O-m-e-r.

Mispronounce it And i

wouldn't wantTo be you.

Oh, baby,

You are beautiful. Hmm?

Whoo! All right!

Hey, jesse, remember that

Fire we started in chicago?

- Let's get a move on.

I think it's burnin'.

Whoo!

Bombs away, little buddy.

Whoo!

Come on, jesse.

I don't feel so well.

I know.

No, you don't.

Look, i don't understand

What's goin' on here.

I like you.

I really do.

But i gotta get home.

I'm sorry.

Let me go.

- You won't get very far.

- We'll see.

I'll be seein' ya.

Before long.

Excuse me.

When's your next bus

To fixx, oklahoma?

Where the hell is fixx?

Well, the nearest

City's lauden.

Gate 12, 15 minutes, $14.

Right.

Um, i only have 11.

I got a bus ticket for 14.

Can you give me a break? I gotta get home.

You're three bucks shy.

What seems to be The problem, kid?

No problem.

I'm just $3.OO short

For a bus ticket home.

Can you help me out?

Well, i got this.

Great.

Come this way, please.

What's the problem? You.

You're not looking

Too good, kid.

I ain't feelin' Too good,

sir. What are you on?

You wouldn't believe me If i told you.

Let me see your eyes.

You got blood on you.

Yes, sir.

I got cut.

Look, i only got $11.

And i need three more

To get home.

Can you help me out?

Get home.

And be a good boy.

Mm. Stop the bus.

I got to get off.

I'm dying.

You're just in time.

Drink this.

I asked you once If you listened

to the night. Now listen to me.

Look, the night.

It's so bright...

It'll blind you.

Huh.

Sarah.

- Morning, daddy.

- Morning, baby.

- You sleep some? - i sleep some

You sleep a little?

A little. Bad dreams.

Me too.

Not much, loy, But the highway patrol found

What might be your winnebago.

It was left in Some fill and torched.

Nobody was inside.

Probably switched cars. Could be

your boy's fallin' inWith some trouble.

- What are you Doin' about that?

- All we can.

Well, it's not enough, Eakers.

Loy, you're just gonna

Have to bear with us For a bit.

Yes, operator,

I'd like to reverse charges...

On a long-distance call

To oklahoma.

Caleb.

Caleb. Caleb.

Look, caleb.

I wanted to go home too.

You know, i called, mae.

Ain't nobody home. Nobody was home.

Jesus! This is f***ed, mae.

I'm scared.

So was i, but don't be.

Just feel it. Feel what's in you.

That's what scares me.

I feel it.

Look, you're in my hands.

You'll be fine.

What'll we do now?

Anything we want...

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Kathryn Bigelow

Kathryn Ann Bigelow (; born November 27, 1951) is an American director, producer, and writer. Covering a wide range of genres, her films include Near Dark (1987), Point Break (1991), Strange Days (1995), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), The Hurt Locker (2008), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), and Detroit (2017). With The Hurt Locker, Bigelow became the first, and as of 2018 the only, woman to win any of the Academy Award for Best Director, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director. She also became the first woman to win the Saturn Award for Best Director in 1995 for Strange Days. Bigelow was a member of the 2010 Time 100 list of most influential people of the year. more…

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