Chewing The Scenery Horror Movie Podcast

Episode 38 is about a 1987 vampire film called Near Dark. Maybe it isn’t a vampire film at all, since they refused to use the word in the dialogue or in promoting the film. Let’s just say the main characters enjoy drinking blood and all happen to have a severe allergy to sunlight. More importantly, it was excellent work from Kathryn Bigelow (director, co-writer) who had a great cast of actors. You might feel you’ve seen some of them together somewhere before. Perhaps in future husband James Cameron’s film Aliens (1986). Since your dear hosts really enjoyed Near Dark, be ready for a little bit of sidetracking. Will talks about how plastic surgery footage seems to blur out the wrong parts and how adorable kids are when they smoke cigarettes. Jolyon explains clotted cream and reveals that he ran across the most racist movie he’s ever seen. It has people blaming earthquakes on the sins of others. Richard admits to people-watching in order to assign them all back stories or figure out their celebrity loo