Mark your calendars for November 10th as Lionsgate will be releasing the classic 80's vamp film Near Dark (scripted by Eric Red, the man also behind The Hitcher) on Blu-ray! Lionsgate has become quite impressive with their high definition releases and have been providing top quality Blu-ray releases. This is one not to miss. Check out the details below.
The film that Time Magazine called "the all-time teenage vampire love story," Near Dark, comes to Blu-ray for the first time from Lionsgate. From acclaimed director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) and starring three-time Golden Globe® winner Bill Paxton (HBO's "Big Love") and Adrian Pasdar (TV's "Heroes"), Near Dark has been hailed as "outrageous and poetic" (The Washington Post), "scary and erotic" (Chicago Reader) and "a terrifying ride to the edge of darkness" (Time Out London). In addition, the film's fated lovers - one a vampire (Jenny Wright) and the other a human (Pasdar) - were recently named to Entertainment Weekly's list of the "20 Greatest Vampires." Coinciding with the theatrical release of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Near Dark makes its Blu-ray debut this November in 1080P High Definition Widescreen with 5.1 DTS-HD Master audio for the low suggested retail price of $19.99.
Country boy Caleb Colton (Pasdar) whittles away the quiet rural nights hunting local girls. When he falls prey to the mysterious and beautiful Mae (Jenny Wright, The Lawnmower Man), Caleb unknowingly becomes the hunted. Mae is no ordinary girl, she is part of an outlaw band of vampires and their love is about to lure him into a terrifying world of bloodlust, mayhem and absolute horror. Will Caleb pay the ultimate price for love and eternal life or will he find a way to defeat the evil growing inside him each night...near dark?
Unfortunately my copy (UK release) has some print damage - a kind of scratch about a quarter of the way down the screen that runs nearly all the way across and shows up in most of the darker scenes (which is most of the movie). Shame because the transfer is pretty good apart from that but it's really distracting. And it's a real bare-bones release - no extras at all, not even a trailer.
Terrible cover.
A lot of Twilight fans are gonna be disappointed.
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