During
late at night a young man named Caleb
Colton (Adrian Pasdar) picks up a young
woman named Mae (Jenny Wright) whom he
seems linked to and shows her around his
farm area for a bit but his pet horse
seems terrified of her and she seems very
odd.
She demands him that she needs to be back
home before sunlight and panicks fearing
it might be too late and asks her to kiss
him in order for him to drive her back
and she bites him on the neck.
When it's sunlight he starts not to feel
too well and then is almost caught on
fire until a mobile vehicle picks him up
and encounters a family of vampires lead
by a man named Jesse Hooker (Lance
Henriksen) as the family isn't sure of
Caleb thinking if he'd fir in or not as
they stay in a hotel each time daylight
hits and sleeps the whole day as well as
stealing different vehicles when they
travel at night.
Mae tries to tell Caleb that he must kill
people and drink their blood in order to
live as he starts to feel weak and ill
when he refuses and Caleb's father Loy
(Tim Thomerson) tries to rescue him and
bring him back to human life but it may
be risky.
This is the most
original vampire flick ever. It doesn't
shows them having monstrous faces and
growing fangs nor flying anywhere. Just
people travelling in vehicles and
avoiding the sun. It's an excellent film
too with nonstop action and a total 80's
horror flick. I advise this to anyone who
enjoys old school horror.
There's many good touching moments in the
film with the main character living the
life as a vampire and having a romance
with the vampiress who made him a vampire
along with his father and sister trying
to rescue him.
The story started out as very mysterious
before discovering who this vampiress is
and acting strange which was a perfect
drawing card to the beginning of this
film in which makes a perfect story
instead of jumping right in revealing her
identity as one.
There's alot of great settings
surrounding each scene like a sleazy bar,
motels and the distance of the sun
rising.
The acting is very
good as lead actor Adrian Pasdar put
all his energy into this film on his
experience as a vampire showing great
sickening emotions as well as the
expressionless expressions too when he
needed to do so. He shows terrific
intensity and great aggrsssions too which
was one of the film's pluses to top it
all off. He was one of the best actors
for this flick.
Jenny Wright was another good one in
the film as a teenage vampiress with her
eccentric attitude as she came across
very mysterious during the beginning of
the story thanks to her good performance.
She brought great characteristic's to her
part in it.
Lance Henriksen played a marvellous
leader of the vampire pack showing great
aggressions and intimidating looks too.
He always does a good job proving to be a
versatile actor. He really stood out very
well that he was the head of the pack.
Bill Paxton was the one who stood
out the most playing a tough as nails
vampire by having a real bad ass
attitude. He really knew how to act rough
and psysical as well as acting very
mouthy and obnoxious. Watching his part
was quite disturbing to those who were
bullied in school or on the streets.
Jenette Goldstein brings a nice
warmness on set as a female vampiress
along with a tough type attitude too. She
looked great to top it all off along with
showing terrific characteristics. It's a
shame she doesn't get many good roles
like this one since she often has small
parts when it comes to film acting. She
showed a completely different role than
when she played a tomboy in Aliens
too making it seem like she's a different
person alltogether.
Tim Thomerson had a nice supporting
role in the film as a single father
farmworker showing a great strong
attitude on the set of the camera with
nice emotions too. Any of the shows I've
seen him in he always does a fine job and
will always be a worthy character actor
in which he shows great characteristics
in this one.
Many bloody gunshots
Slit throats
Vampire's skin getting burned
Katheryn Bigelow
was wonderful with her work on this film
making it look like a natural vampire
flick in which he has a great dialogue
between Adrian Pasdar and Jenny
Wright when he gives her a lift and
their discussions together as Bigelow
made it look mysterious due to Wright's
actions with her eccentric behavior.
There's a great moment when she acts
intense telling him to drive her home
before daylight and panicking about it.
There's a good shot of them kissing as
well as her biting him on the neck.
There's good shots on Pasdar
acting weak during the sunlight on him
with smoke forming on him and then a nice
shot on a trailer mobile driving by him
and someone grabbing him. There's a nice
camera shot looking up on Bill Paxton
while putting his foot on Pasdar
acting like a bully and speaking toughly
towards him.
There's a good dialogue between Pasdar
and Wright near a railroad track
when she tells him who he is now which
looked quite powerful.
There's many great scene's with Pasdar
walking in the city streets acting sick
as well as him at a bus station and then
supporting actor Troy Evans as
an officer coming up from behind him and
getting demanding with him thinking that
he's intoxicated which looked very
realistically done.
There's a perfect shot on Pasdar
sicking the blood from Wright's
wrist acting ravenous in which shows
terrific energy on the two of them.
There's a good shots on the actors as
vampires doing their deadly deeds like Paxton
acting like a cowboy hitchhiking on the
side of the road as well as both bit part
actors Tony Pierce and Gordon
Haight trying to carjack both Lance
Henriksen and Goldstein as
there's nice shots on the two of them
showing a good evil smily expressions.
There's many great scene's with Paxton,
Wright, Goldstein, Henriksen
and Joshua John Miller entering
a bar with shots on bit part actors like
Thomas Wagner, Robert Winley,
Danny Kopel and Jan King staring
at them while they discuss what they see
which leaves you an impression that they
will be up to no good.
There's a nice forceful action with Paxton
grabbing Pasdar at the bar table
and trying to get him to fight bit part
actor Kopel as the biker in the
bar with a nice shot on Pasdar
giving Kopel a good blow and him
falling back against the wall.
There's some good angle shots on Paxton
stepping up on the bar table doing some
sort of a dance and then swinging his
spike cowboy boots towards Wagner
as the bartender and slitting his throat
with a good graphic camera shot on that
too.
There's a nice shot on Pasdar
looking dark and expressionless slowly
walking up to bit part actor James
LeGros as a teenage cowboy as
there's shot on him looking scared which
was good as well as a good shot on him
jumping out of a bar window.
There's nice shots on bit part actors as
state troopers surrounding a hotel
pointing their guns as well as shooting
with the leading cast like Henriksen,
Godstein and Paxton
preparing to fire back as well as a good
shot on Pasdar running to go to
his vehicle with gun shots shooting him
and he reacts well to the pain.
There's a good moment with Miller
approaching Marcie Leeds at a
pop machine trying to act charming
towards her which looked good.
There's a perfect camera shot on the gang
standing near a cliff in the dark with
mist floating around them.
There's a nice struggling moment with Tim
Thomerson and Leeds trapped
in a hotel room with Henricksen,
Goldstein, Paxton and Miller
restraining them there which makes you
wonder if they will be safe on how it was
directed.
There's a good moment with Thomerson
placing Pasdar in his barn and
trying to inject blood in him as well as
nice shots on him sobbing.
There's good shots on Pasdar and
Leeds playing out in the farm
area acting full of life.
There's a great shocked reaction on Wright
after she discovers that Pasdar
is normal again along with nice shots on
them kissing one another beforehand.
There's another good shot on Paxton
with the camera looking up on him while
throwing Pasdar far onto the
road as well as a nice shot on Pasdar
trying to run him over with a truck and a
great shot on the truck exploding.
There's a good showdown with Pasdar
against Henricksen with him
yelling at him to let his sister go as
well as a good shot on Goldstein
coming up from behind Pasdar about to
throw a knife at him.
The music was terrifically
composed by the group Tangerine Dream
sounding incredibly original and
very 80's horror like with the terrific
keyboard playing as well as alot of rock
guitar music too during many of the
sequences throughout the storyline. It
couldn't get any better than this in
which they make every scene sound
incredibly effective.
There's many good
songtracks in the film most notably the
hit "Naughty Naughty" by John
Parr during a scene where the family
of vampires enter a bar.
Mae:
Y'know, the light that's leaving that
star right now will take a billion years
to get down here. You wanna know why
you've never met a girl like me before?
Because I'll still be here when the light
from that star gets down here to earth.
Caleb
Colton: I sure haven't met any girls
like you.
Mae: No, you sure haven't.
Homer:
The name's Homer. H-O-M-E-R. Mispronounce
it... and I wouldn't... wanna... be you.
[Pale,
sweating and in obvious withdrawal, Caleb
is being shaken down by a policeman]
Deputy Sheriff: You ain't looking
too good, son.
Caleb Colton: I ain't feeling too
good, sir.
Deputy Sheriff: What're you on?
Caleb Colton: You wouldn't believe
me...
Jesse:
Let's put it this way: I fought for the
South. We lost.
Sarah
Colton: [Homer is staring at Sarah]
It's impolite to stare.
Loy
Colton: Caleb, those people back
there, they wasn't normal. Normal folks,
they don't spit out bullets when you
shoot 'em, no sir.
[last
lines]
Mae: Caleb, what's happening?
Caleb Colton: I brought you home.
Mae: I'm afraid.
Caleb Colton: Don't be. It's just
the sun.
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