Why did I like this film? Two words: Vampire Western. Throw in a bit of southern gothic, a melodramatic romance and some serious Mood (equal parts the blue filter cinematography and noctural settings and a synth-heavy Tangerine Dream soundtrack that's by turns brooding and energised), and it's pretty much a perfect Friday night film. (Though I could take or leave the heavy lashings of blood, I suppose they come with the territory.) It was made in 1987, directed by Kathryn Bigelow; films that could plausibly have been influenced by it would include, I reckon, From Dusk Till Dawn and Twilight.
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