Near Dark (aka Too Straight to Vampire) with Erica Henderson

Scare Level: Scary
Trigger Warnings: Trauma, Gore, PTSD, body horror, and gaslighting

This neo-Western from Kathryn Bigelow is, ostensibly, about a cowboy who gets bitten by vampire-drifters and spends the rest of the movie failing to vampire correctly.

• Director: Kathryn Bigelow
• Writers: Kathryn Bigelow, Eric Reed
• Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jeanette Goldstein, and Jenny Wright
• IMDB says: "A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is bitten by a beautiful drifter."

Recommendations:

• Erica- The Stuff
• Emily- A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
• Ben - They Live
• Jeremy - The Final Girls

Need the transcript?  Visit our website at progressivelyhorrified.transistor.fm!

Follow Erica Henderson @EricaFails on Twitter, IG, and Threadless
Listen to Erica on the Friends Till the End podcast

Follow us on twitter @proghorrorpod

Follow Emily on twitter @megamoth
Emily's Website: Megamoth.net

Follow Ben on twitter @benthekahn
Pre-Order Ben's new book, Renegade Rule.

Follow Jeremy on twitter @jrome58
Visit his website at JeremyWhitley.com

RSS Feed: https://feeds.transistor.fm/progressively-horrified
Website: https://progressivelyhorrified.transistor.fm/

Join our Patreon at: patreon.com/progressivelyhorrified to support the show, get bonus episodes, early access to upcoming episodes, and a cool Progressively Horrified t-shirt.

Sign up to support Progressively Horrified on Patreon for as little as $5 a month and get bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/c/progressivelyhorrified

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.