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Halloweenies: A Horror Franchise Podcast

Near Dark (1987)

Halloweenies: A Horror Franchise Podcast

The Losers' Club LLC

Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Film History

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

In anticipation of its 35th anniversary, we're unlocking our deep dive on Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 neo-Western horror film Near Dark. Together, they discuss the state of the Western in the '80s, the eclectic filmography of Bigelow, all of the James Cameron regulars, and why it's impossible to find it. Special guest includes Daily Dead Managing Editor Heather Wixson. Note: As aforementioned, this installment of The Rental was unlocked from our Patreon and recorded in August 2020. If you want more of this kind of content, be sure to join our Patreon! Head on over to www.patreon.com/halloweeniespod and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content! Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Greetings and salutations. You've successfully arrived at the bloody disgusting network.

0:10.0

The passage of time will now bring you to something strange, unique, and idiosyncratic.

0:17.0

Have a good time.

0:20.0

Happy Halloween, trick-or-treaters, dreamers, campers, suspects, and yes, deadites.

0:27.0

Michael Maniac Ash Roffman here with little context for today's episode, or should I say drop. So about two years ago we started our own Patreon.

0:35.0

W.W. Patreon.com slash Halloween East pod.

0:39.0

And you've probably heard us plugging it in episodes

0:41.0

and you've likely by now seen all the clips of our content in the feed

0:44.9

Well, it's been going great at least I think so in the last two years we've recorded two dozen commentary tracks one of which Jaws you saw last month. In addition to that, we've also

0:56.4

given our signature dissection to some of the greatest and most iconic horror rentals of all time.

1:01.1

We call them Shocker, rentals.

1:04.8

So as we enter Spooky Season and don't forget,

1:08.5

August 5th, the release date for Halloween HTO,

1:11.0

is officially the beginning of spooky season.

1:12.8

If Dimension Films thought it was okay to release

1:15.0

Halloween H2O in August,

1:16.8

then we should feel okay to celebrate it in August too.

1:21.2

Anyway, we thought because of that, we didn't lock one of our rentals as an early Halloween treat.

1:26.9

And since the first episode we did, Catherine Bigelow's Near Dark, also turns 35 this year.

1:32.6

I don't know, we thought it made sense.

1:34.8

And it's a killer episode too with Daily Deads,

1:37.6

Heather Wixen, joining the gang at the proverbial bar.

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