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Near Dark

Near Dark - in which farm boy Caleb is seduced away from his pick-up driving life by a blonde girl with an ice cream cone. Mae is a young, blonde woman who is meandering around town who catches Caleb's eye while he is out drinking with his friends. He leaves his friends to hang out with this strange woman, then he is driving her back to her trailer park, or something, and she starts freaking out about the sun coming up. Mae kisses Caleb, then bites him on the neck, she is a vampire! Then she panics about the sun and bolts out of the truck. Caleb kind of gives up and goes home, but he starts smoldering along the way, as the sun is rising. It looks awesome. He gets picked up by a weird looking RV, by Mae and her not-family. Lance Hendrickson and Bill Paxton (Severin) are terrifying as unhinged immortal murders, and there is a 12 year old perma-boy with a bad attitude, and a grown ass woman named Diamondback, who is not very maternal. Caleb is not a full vampire yet, as he has not killed a person, but he leaves town with this crew because he is scared. His father and sister notice he is missing and go looking for him, but they are on the road for days before they figure out they should have gone North, and change direction. Caleb tries to buy a bus ticket home, but he doesn't get very far before he gets sick and runs back to Mae, who will feed him from her own blood.

       The crew causes mayhem and mean spirited chaos in small dive bars around the square-state countryside, and Caleb gets scared. His father and little sister end up at the same crappy motel, and his dad rescues him from the vampire family. He performs a blood transfusion and cures Caleb's borderline vampirism. Mae shows up because she miss him, and the dad cures her, too.


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