Near Dark (1987)

English

One night, Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar), a young man in a small Oklahoma town, meets Mae (Jenny Wright), an attractive young drifter. Just before sunrise, she bites him on the neck then runs off. The rising sun causes Caleb's flesh to begin to burn. Mae comes with a group of roaming vampires and takes him away. The most dissocial of all the vampires, the callous and sociopathic Severen (Bill Paxton), wants to kill him, but Mae reveals she has turned him into a vampire. 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 become a trusted member of their group. Caleb is unwilling to kill to feed, which alienates him from the others. To protect him, Mae kills for him then has him drink from her wrist. After Caleb endangers himself to help them during a daylight police raid on their motel, Jesse and the others are temporarily mollified.
Meanwhile, Caleb's father (Tim Thomerson) has begun searching for the group while the police are also investigating. A child vampire in the group, Homer (Joshua John Miller), meets Caleb's sister Sarah (Marcie Leeds) and wants to transform her into his companion, but Caleb objects. While the group argues, Caleb's father arrives and holds them at gunpoint, demanding Sarah be released. Jesse taunts him into shooting, but regurgitates the bullet then wrestles the gun away. In the confusion, Sarah opens the door letting in the sunlight and forcing the vampires back. Burning, Caleb escapes with his family and suggests they try doing a blood transfusion to attempt to cure him. The transfusion successfully reverses Caleb's transformation. That night the vampires search for Caleb because he knows their identity, and Homer still wishes to have Sarah for his mate. Mae distracts Caleb by trying to convince him to return to her while the others kidnap Sarah.
After Mae leaves, Caleb discovers the kidnapping and gives chase on horseback after finding his tires slashed. Along the way, he commandeers a tractor-trailer and encounters Severen, whom he runs over. The injured vampire manages to get into the truck's cab, so Caleb jackknifes the vehicle and jumps out as the truck explodes and kills Severen. Seeking revenge, Jesse and Diamondback (Jenette Goldstein) pursue him, but are forced to flee in their car as dawn breaks.
Not wanting Sarah to become another child-like monster, Mae breaks out of the back of the car with Sarah, getting badly burned by the sun as she runs with Sarah into Caleb's arms, taking refuge from the sun under his jacket. Homer attempts to follow but dies from exposure. Jesse and Diamondback, their sun-proofing ruined, also begin to burn. They attempt to run Caleb and Sarah over with the car but fail, also dying in the process.
Mae awakens later, her burns now healed; she has been given a transfusion and is also cured. Together, she and Caleb watch the sunrise.

Italiano

In un paese dell'Oklahoma, una notte il giovane cowboy Caleb incontra la bella Mae. Tra i due nasce una tenera attrazione, ma Caleb scopre ben presto che Mae è una vampira che vive in camper, vagabondando con altri vampiri, come una sorta di famiglia. La dolcezza di Mae si scontra con la perfidia dei suoi compagni. Caleb viene contagiato da Mae, dopo un bacio appassionato, così i compagni di Mae si ritrovano costretti a portare il ragazzo con loro, che però non è ancora diventato un vampiro e si rifiuta di seguire il loro stile di vita, diventando un assassino. Il gruppo, infatti, si sposta in piccole cittadine o fermando camionisti di passaggio alla ricerca di vittime di cui nutrirsi. La polizia è sulle loro tracce e tende loro un'imboscata, ma Caleb riesce a salvare i suoi nuovi compagni. Nel frattempo il padre e la sorellina di Caleb lo cercano disperatamente. Una notte, per caso, il padre e la sorella incontrano il gruppo di vampiri presso un motel. I vampiri vorrebbero ucciderli, ma Caleb riesce a sfuggire insieme alla sua famiglia e a tornare normale grazie ad una trasfusione ad opera del padre. I vampiri si vendicano rapendo la sua sorellina. A questo punto Caleb (anche con la complicità di Mae) riesce a sottrarre la sorellina ai vampiri, questi ultimi poi nel tentativo di inseguire il ragazzo saltano in aria all'interno della loro auto. Alla fine Caleb riesce a far tornare umana Mae attraverso una trasfusione.