On October 2, 1987 “Near Dark” was released in theaters! Co-written and directed by Kathryn Bigelow (in her solo directorial debut), and starring Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein, James LeGros, Tim Thomerson and Troy Evans. The plot follows a young man in a small Oklahoma town who becomes involved with a family of nomadic American vampires. Bigelow knew (and later married) director James Cameron, who directed Aliens (1986), a film that shares three cas