One of the fun things about Near Dark is that it's very, very straight, as a movie. So it's all about blood=sex, but not at all homoerotic. The big sexual image is of a guy on his knees, sucking hungrily at a woman's wrist (which is at about waist height).

It was -- refreshing. Funny, that a vampire movie featuring a boy and a girl should feel so revolutionary (in modern context). Like it went all the way to the end of the conventionalness scale, and came out the other side.

There is also the part where it takes place in rural Texas, and nobody ever says the word "vampire."

Opa!, askye. He likes hard-boiled carrots. (Not quite like being befriended by Oprah, George, but I'll do what I can for you.)

Matt! How could you forget Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves?

I'm not forgetting it, I just wasn't aware that Costner was bothering to try for a British accent in it.

I liked The Wisdom Of Crocodiles.

Y'know, I've never seen The Addiction. I'll have to track it down.

The accent went in and out. And then at some point, I believe that he just stops trying.

I remember Cary Elwes busting on him in Robin Hood: Men in Tights about how, unlike some other Robin Hoods, he spoke with an English accent.

a period ghost story I memfault on the name of

The Devil's Backbone. I think.

I'm writing this like I don't have the internet.

checks imdb

Yeah, The Devil's Backbone. T'was great fun.

Y'know, I've never seen The Addiction. I'll have to track it down.

I loved Lili Taylor in it.

"He Who Sighs" from that creeped me out more than Samara did.