Companion review for Top 10 1980s Horror Films & Top 10 Modern Vampire Films
A classic that frequented the sort of top 100 polls that read: ‘The Best Films To Rent You’ve Never Heard Of’, Near Dark wilted soullessly in the caverns of cinema’s black hole, yet this gem from 1987 wasn’t the usual bottom shelf turd that was destined to the recesses of 50 pence bargain bins, it was just the simple fact that no-one, bar a small group of die-hard, would-be bloodsuckers, had ever heard of it.
The film originally …

Companion review for Top 10 1980s Horror Films
George A. Romero set them free, and now the ‘undead’ refuse to lay silent in the grave. Like his walking-corpse creations, this sub-genre in horror cinema keeps birthing new young and they just keep coming. It could certainly be argued that no other genre produced such a high volume of utter rubbish, and even many fan favourites fit into the ‘so bad, it’s kinda good’ category. The shoestring budgets forgot to price-manage what decent scripts, actors or direction cost, happily throwing dollars, pounds, …