Near Dark 39th anniversary

by Capucine · old hollywood: Kathryn Bigelow

Kathryn Bigelow's vampire Western NEAR DARK hit its 39th anniversary, and the casting story behind it is worth revisiting. James Cameron, who had just worked with a certain ensemble on ALIENS, recommended that Bigelow bring over the same group. So Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, and Jenette Goldstein ended up in the film. A genre mashup that put the undead in a frontier setting.