Near Dark

An insanely strong second feature, I think due in part to Bigelow bringing Eric Red on board as co-writer, but also Paxton’s seriously unhinged portrayal of Severin, the very cold menace of Henrikson (something he’s always excelled at), and the (what seems, in retrospect, totally obvious) notion of using Adrian Pasdar in what would have been the damsel-in-distress role. There are, admittedly, a couple of continuity errors and I’m not a huge fan of the very end, but, dammit, it’s a near masterpiece otherwise and the best American vampire movie, even if no one actually says vampire, besides, it’s really a western anyway.