I feel like I may’ve repeated this years ago in some other Near Dark post of Priscilla’s, but: Michael Weldon of Psychotronic magazine/movie guides/etc’s take was that his costuming was inspired by John Doe of X. Probably just conjecture, but who knows
This one’s a big influence on the vampire novel I’m currently working on. I watched it again a month or so back, and some of the dialog isn’t great, but fucking hell did Katherine Bigelow direct the living shit out of it. It’s the first time in a while I wished more movies were being shot on film.
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I really need to see it.
…and Minority Report.
Sinners joins it in the pantheon of vampire horror.