Near Dark

At a meagre running time of 84 minutes, it's incredibly clean, with Bigelow standing firmly by the screenwriting mantra that nothing is extraneous, nothing is arbitrary, and creating a piece of sheer poetic simplicity.

...combines such diverse genres as horror, western, crime, and romance into what may be the first vampire road movie.

Kathryn Bigelow's genre-bending mix of horror, western and Southern gothic drags blood sucking into the modern world. One of the best horror movies of the last 20 years.