Near Dark

6. "Near Dark" (1987)

The vampire coven in Kathryn Bigelow's "Near Dark" lives on the run, getting its bloody kicks and calories in Southwestern juke joints and hick towns. Decked out in leather, peroxided and Mohawked, this lowdown "family" is fathered by Jesse Hooker (a superb... more Lance Henriksen, playing Hooker as a buckskinned bad man out of America's bloody past -- Jesse James, perhaps?). This feral clan looks like leftover dregs from drive-in Westerns, biker movies and horror shows. When their sad-eyed siren (Jenny Wright) falls for an all-American boy (Adrian Pasdar), it's a face-off between lurid outlaw life in an endless road movie and home sweet home in the heartland. (De Laurentiis Entertainment Group/ Courtesy Everett Collection)