25 Things We Learned from Kathryn Bigelow’s “Near Dark” Commentary

Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 25 Things We Learned from Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark Commentary.  Here are three of my favorites…

1. The realization that they were going to film a real mosquito interacting with an actor meant they had to grow it from scratch “so that there were no contaminants that he would be exposed to.” It became a six-month process.

8. Each member of the vampire family has “their own quandary, their own private hell that they’re living with.” The exception is Severen (Bill Paxton) who’s “the prototypical vampire, he’s the one without remorse, without guilt, without regret. He’s the perfect vampire.”

15. Paxton ad-libbed both the theft of the sunglasses and the line “I hate it when they ain’t been shaved!”