Another 80′s horror movie getting remade?

Another remake, another punnet-of-slimy-tomatoes ready to hurl at the culprit.

One of the best vampire flicks ever, and one truly underrated 80′s classic, “Near Dark” (1987) is getting the ever-so-unnecessary remake treatment, according to Dread Central

Rogue Pictures have tapped Amy Kaufman and David Bixler to produce the retool of the film, with a writer yet to be hired.

The original film, starring Adrian Pasdar, Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen, centered on an innocent country boy, Caleb Colton (Pasdar) whose seduced by a beautiful girl (Jenny Wright) into joining a roving pack of vicious drifters – who later turn out to be vampires – led by the enigmatic Jesse (Henriksen). The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow.