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Lance Henriksen Reflects On ‘Near Dark’; He and Paxton Wanted a Prequel

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The best vampire movie of all time hit theaters 30 years ago.

Released the same year as The Lost BoysNear Dark makes a pretty good case for being the sub-genre’s best. With incredible performances from Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen, a mesmerizing score by Tangerine Dream, and a super cool horror-western feel, Kathryn Bigelow’s film is not just one of the best vampire movies, but one of the very best exports of one of the genre’s very best decades.

Thirty years after its release, Lance Henriksen reflects on the making of Near Dark in a new interview that just hit A.V. Club, revealing that he and Paxton had so much fun making the movie that they were ready to do another one right after filming wrapped!

I loved doing that movie. We were a real family,” Henriksen told the site. “Billy Paxton was in it, Jenette Goldstein, and all these people. It was a great movie to work on. Kathryn Bigelow was my first experience with a female director, and it was great. It was a real matriarchal situation.”

We all loved doing it. The minute we finished that film, I remember Billy and I standing in the middle of the road, and it was literally the very last shot of the movie, and we both had the feeling right away that we should do the prequel right away,” he recalled. “Like, we should start it right now. And we would’ve. If they’d said, ‘Let’s go, let’s do it.’ We would’ve gone. But they never did.”

We had the whole story. Billy and I sat for hours after hours talking about it, about what could be in it and that kind of stuff. It was great.”

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Is Now Available to Watch at Home!

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After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.

You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!

Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.

Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”

“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.

She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.

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