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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Why this pick
A spare, nocturnal vampire romance with outsider longing, dry danger and a stylized desert-town mood that echoes Near Dark’s melancholy more than conventional horror.
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MOVIE1987 1h 35m USA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
One night, Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar), a young man in a small town, meets an attractive young drifter named Mae (Jenny Wright). Just before sunrise, she bites him on the neck and runs off. The rising sun causes Caleb's flesh to smoke and burn. Mae arrives with a group of roaming vampires in an RV and takes him away. The most psychotic of the vampires, Severen (Bill Paxton), wants to kill Caleb but Mae reveals that she has already turned him. Their charismatic leader Jesse Hooker (Lance Henriksen) reluctantly agrees to allow Caleb to remain with them for a week, to see if he can learn to hunt and gain the group's trust. Caleb is unwilling to kill to feed, which alienates him from the others. To protect him, Mae kills for him and then has him drink from her wrist.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jenny Wright
Mae
Lance Henriksen
Jesse Hooker
Tim Thomerson
Loy Colton
Marcie Leeds
Sarah Colton
Thomas Wagner
Bartender
S.A. Griffin
Police Officer at Motel
Paul M. Lane
State Trooper
Theresa Randle
Lady in Car