{"id":2948,"date":"2011-10-21T10:58:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T14:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2011-10-21T10:58:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T14:58:56","slug":"friday-b-movie-pick-near-dark-dog-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/movies\/friday-b-movie-pick-near-dark-dog-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday B-Movie Pick: Near Dark &#038; Dog Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B002MJV7I6\/eclipsswebwarren\"><strong>Near Dark<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B001RXDLZA\/eclipsswebwarren\"><strong>Dog Soldiers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost Holloween, so today we have a double header of Vampires and Werewolves. The first is a low buget classic from 1987. A group of vampires roaming Oklahoma those recent yet far away days before ubiquitous cell phones, multiple 24\/7 news channels and new media news back channels. There is plenty of blood and mayhem to go around in this dark and violent vampire flick that never uses the word &#8220;vampire.&#8221; Dog Soldiers was made fifteen years later, but has a lot of the same noir grittiness. A small group of British soldiers are dropped into the remote countryside for some &#8220;routine&#8221; training. Add a group of werewolves that &#8220;just happen to be in the area&#8221;, and you have a nice flick to get you in the mood for Holloween.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/Friday_Movie_picks.html\">Friday B-Movie Archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near Dark and Dog Soldiers It&#8217;s almost Holloween, so today we have a double header of Vampires and Werewolves. The first is a low buget classic from 1987. A group of vampires roaming Oklahoma those recent yet far away days before ubiquitous cell phones, multiple 24\/7 news channels and new media news back channels. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[344,377,401,538,802,826],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-friday-b-movie","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-movie","tag-vampire","tag-werewolf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-Ly","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}