Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark bites into the myth of American individualism and exceptionalism in Western movies by throwing vampires into the mix. The undead’s predatory habits become a stand-in for settler colonialism, drawing a line from modern-day horror to the specter of the past that enabled it.
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