A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
Direction
Bigelow's first feature already knows violence is choreography.
Practical Effects
Sunlight kills look like actual spontaneous combustion.
Acting
Bill Paxton's Severen: cinema's most unhinged vampire redneck.
Director
Kathryn Bigelow
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bigelow and co-writer Eric Red originally pitched this as a western; when studios balked, they made it a horror film instead. The western DNA is everywhere.
Three of the vampire gang—Henriksen, Paxton, Goldstein—had just finished Aliens together. Bigelow essentially inherited Cameron's crew and made them dirtier.
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