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Streaming data from JustWatch
Near Dark
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2146
- IMDb #2487
- Rotten Tomatoes #1897
- Metacritic #1067
- Letterboxd #2096
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2058
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2244
- Metacritic Critics #834
- Metacritic Audience #1831
- Criticker #1247
- Kinopoisk #3662
- AlloCiné #3258
- Trakt #3604
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 55, highest is Google on 86.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young Oklahoma farm boy's life changes forever when he is seduced by a beautiful drifter and bitten by her nomadic family. He soon discovers they are a band of vampires who travel across the American West in search of blood. To survive, he must adapt to their violent, nocturnal lifestyle and earn their acceptance, all while struggling to hold onto his humanity and protect his own family.
Details
- Director
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Writers
- Eric Red, Kathryn Bigelow
- Studio
- DEG, F/M, Near Dark Joint Venture
- Released
- 2 October 1987
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $5.0M
- Box office
- $3.4M
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Cast
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Awards
1 win & 9 nominations total
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