{"id":16476,"date":"2011-08-18T17:32:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T16:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=16476"},"modified":"2012-04-26T10:12:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T09:12:16","slug":"timewarp-trailer-near-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/launch\/timewarp-trailer-near-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Timewarp Trailer: Near Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s easy to come across a fusty old man, bemoaning modern vampire flicks while simultaneously trumpeting the triumph of those \u00a0from the past, ‘Bah, Twilight<\/a><\/em>‘s fable about a popular heartthrob of the day discovering their sexuality isn’t a patch on The Lost Boys<\/a><\/em>‘ fable about a popular heartthrob of the day\u00a0discovering their sexuality’, etc. Vampire movies haven’t changed all that much since they traded Hungarian noblemen for pop-rock\/shirtless saxophone soundtracks<\/a>, have they?<\/p>\n

Just look to 1987’s superb and underrated Near Dark<\/em>, in which a young man in smalltown Oklahoma, meets a vampire girl, gets turned and wrestles with his reluctance to kill. It sounds dreadful – as dreadful as Twilight<\/em> sounds to some – but it’s a brilliant looking, understated affair in a era of horror films that frequently punched far above their weight class and now look like episodes of Charmed<\/em> as a consequence.<\/p>\n

Check it out, and maybe give Twilight<\/em> the benefit of the doubt too.<\/p>\n