30 Days of Night (Blu-ray Disc, 2008)

Director David Slade crams Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith's Unusual Graphic Novel through the Modern-Horror Grinder, falling back on flash cuts, audio screeches., and an abundance of gore. Amidst these jugernauts of atmospheric tricks., the story-concept remains powerfully strong.
Every Winter in Barrow, Alaska — the Northernmost Town in the United States — experiences a full month without sunlight. This year, an Army of Starving Savage Vampires descend on the Town to take advantage of the Natural Darkness. Local Sheriff Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett) and his estranged wife, Stella (Melissa George), must put their differences aside long enough to try and protect Barrow and it's townsfolk.
The Night premise explains well, why Slade's film is so dark. Seemingly shot through a "Blue-Lens" Slade's film suffocates the audience with dread., and releases no mercy. The desolate frontier Town of Barrow makes for an incredible piece-set., and the ferocious blizzard that whips at the blood-thirsting Predators and their Prey is a "character" in and of itself.
Hartnett gives a truly solid performance; and Slade manages to drench shocks in with slow-building psychological fear. Ben Foster (though not the only reason) might be one of the biggest reasons to see '30 Days of Night'. The young actor is perfecting the Homicidal Maniac Role, practicing it in two other movies this year — see 'Alpha Dog' and '3:10 to Yuma'.
In '30 Days of Night', he plays a messenger who arrives in Barrow before the Vampires and tries to intimidate Hartnett's Sheriff with the Promise of Death. Foster drapes his lines with an accent that insipidly releases immediate tension.
While 'Sin City' & 'Shoot 'Em Up' have held the 5-Star Graphic Novel feel - 'Sin City' having truly set that 'Bar'., and 'Shoot 'Em Up' (while not itself a graphic novel but held that appeal)., following in it's steps., '30 Days of Night' I hold just 1-Star less than a Full-5. (It's hard to put this Graphic Novel transformation to Cinema Screen on Level with 'Sin-City'....or any other Graphic Novel up to 'Sin City' for that matter (though we can wait and see how "The Dark Knight" plays this season with Christian Bale & Heath Ledger - God Bless Ledger).
However, "DO NOT MISS" this frighteningly disturbing nightmare. It would have 5-stars., if I didn't feel obligated to hold it to 'Sin City' standards.
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Aaaaaand another review of a movie that I watched a few weeks ago, I may not remember all of the plot intricacies but I do remember this... it was AWESOME!!

A small Alaskan town that loses daylight for 30 straight days, plunging the place into constant darkness, sounds like the perfect place for a group of bloodthirsty vampires to hang out and eat people! But wait a second, these can't be REAL vampires. They don't shimmer with glowing lights, none of them are pretty and I don't see ONE teenage girl fawning over them, don't these writers know anything?!?!

Based on the graphic novel, this is an EXCELLENT adaptation that captures the book very closely indeed. Imagine a zombie movie, where a small group of survivors must try and outlast the group of slow movie monsters until they can be rescued. Now change "slow moving monsters" to "really fricken fast vampires" and you have yourselves a great horror flick. Who will live? Who will die? How will they survive? (if at all) this is a REAL vampire movie, the monsters look horrible, they are killers and they will toy with you like a cat with a mouse before eating you alive. Just a fabulous, fabulous horror movie. Recommended to all fans of the genre (but not teenage girls who like their vampire oh so cute with messy hair)

Although Josh Harnett isn't a top shelf superstar, he has done good jobs in past films. However, in this movie, which I think is a Uwe Boll homage film, Harnett's
character is hollow, devoid of any kind personality. He exhibits the same stare on his face throughout the movie, and his supporting cast makes no effort in shining out. Now, the villains in the movie are a slight different from the usual modern convention of the vampires, these ones have no sense of refinement, are just cannibalistic hunters bent on destroying all. Their leader, however thinks of himself as an illuminated man (pardon the pun), speaking in metaphors, verses, like a frigging preacher. If you go frame by frame in the climax of the movie you see the fakeness of Harnett's Superman punch on the Alpha Vampire. An utter waste of time and money, I lost 113 minutes of my life and $23 when I bought this on Blu Ray.

It's not often that Hollywood manufactures a film that can be enjoyed by all walks of life, toddler to absurdly old, the whole family is sure to love the action packed sequences, and the greatly woven story that is our screenplay. Set in Barrow Alaska, where we're told through the first piece of text, 30 days of night sets in every winter. (although I'm not sure that the statement is true) Therein, a hilarious set of events follows as ancient vampires make their way to the wide metropolis of Barrow, and as the Pilgrims before us, offers the locals a feast of epic proportions. Ofcourse, at the locals expense, the feast proves wildly successful for the band or pack or whatever a group of vampires are called, until an unforeseen turn in the vampire's plan evolves.........

if you like horror and edge of your seat entertainment featering vampires this is the movie for you. great movie by rob zombie well done takes place in a small town in alaska were they have 30 days of night no sun so the vampires can stay out all the time.