Country boy Caleb spends his time chasing after local girls, but when he falls prey to the mysterious and beautiful Mae, he unknowingly becomes the hunted. Mae is part of an outlaw band of vampires, and their love is about to lure Caleb into a terrifying world of bloodlust and horror.

Before she won the Best Director Oscar® for The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow brought vampires and a touch of noir to the neowestern stage. Reinvigorating the mythology and iconography of its respective genres, Near Dark is a seductive thrill ride through the parched plains of the American Midwest.