30 Days of Night
David Slade
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Barrow, Alaska: A remote, isolated town that is plunged into a state of complete darkness for 30 days every winter. It is here that a group of marauding, merciless and bloodthirsty vampires, led by Marlow (Danny Huston), are coming. Their intention? A month long, uninterrupted feast of its helpless residents. It is up to Sheriff Eben (Josh Hartnett), his estranged wife, Stella (Melissa George), and an ever-shrinking group of survivors to do anything and everything they can to last till daylight.
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Better than you'd imagine!
The vampires are not your romantic Anne Rice style but rather gruesome and ugly. They also talk in their own creepy language and screech painfully. The picture itself is very gory. Good character development for the survivors had me rooting for them the entire time. The acting was pretty solid. Another plus is that the survivors don't have some idiotic "witty" line when they manage to kill a vamp (which is extremely hard due to their murderousness). Better than your average vampire flick!
30 Days of Night
One of the finest horror films i have ever seen. Forget the Twilight vampire who have sparkly skin in the sun and fall in love with humans. These vampires will make your skin crawl with there violent and gory way of killing, and they love to see humans bleed. In the small isolated town of Barrow, Alaska the local residents are preparing for the month long period of no sunlight. But what they don't prepare for is the fight for their lives. The thirty days of darkness is the perfect hunting ground for hungry blood thirsty vampires.
The film starts with a stranger, played by Ben Foster, coming from a freighter ship not too far from the small town of Barrow. His duty is to stop any means of escape for the residents. He steals phones and burns them, and kills all the sled dogs, believing that the vampires will make him one of them. When the vampire finally reach Barrow, they start their feeding frenzy and slaughter anyone who isn't already in hiding. Any of the remaining residents left after the first night have to try and survive the next 29 days, until the sun rises again.
The story is brilliant and clever, and the scenery and snow landscapes are stunning. That is until the vampires start killing, turning the snow a nice shade of blood red. The are some amazing aerial shots of the mayhem unfolding, which although are good, show some quite disturbing scenes. The vampires are creepy and crazy, and what a vampire should be like in a horror film. The cast are chosen well and give great performances. There is plenty of gore and blood, and there are some disturbing scenes. But overall it is a stunning horror. If you like your great horror films then give this a try, you will not be disappointed. The blu-ray version of the film, like another reviewer stated, is amazing, (and only £6.99 on hmv.co.uk). It has been one of my favourite horror films for a while now and i highly recommend it.
Excellent Horror
Here we have Barrow, one of the furthest flung outposts of humanity in the northernmost territory of Alaska. At the extremes of latitude you get polar days where the sun hangs in the sky for weeks even months, and polar nights which can also last weeks or months..
So if you're Count Dracula or some lost Hungarian aristocrats with a penchant for claret, you really don't want to take a trip put of season..
What you, and your Nosferatu chums, do want to do is: find a suitable means of transport, say, a Russian tanker, feed on the crew, & chase the night to where nighttime lasts for days on end. Once you find the land of night you want to send in your human familiar who can take care of all those tricky things such as: any means for contacting the outside world, and dogs - vampires don't like dogs. They're cat people.
Once you have your captive audience of a 100 or so Barrow dwellers enjoy yourself, safe in the knowledge that -they ain't going nowhere. You've got 30 days of night to paint the town red..
This film is terrific, the vampires are downright nasty and without remorse - Danny Huston is brilliant as the vampire leader, and Josh Hartnet is stoic in retreat as the town Sheriff trying his best to keep himself and the other survivors alive. There's not a lot of finesse to this movie it's guttural and brutal, so there's no sultry hynosis or swooning - the vampires slash first and drink pretty before you've hit the ground.
The opening scenes are cinematically beautiful in a way that only a snowscape can be, the bluray version of this looks stunning. However once you get to the night sequences there's a green filter on the camera and I know a couple of mates have said that watching this movie slightly depressed them! So if you're looking for escapism and a lightening of a load perhaps save this for when you're feeling more upbeat! If you like meaty, heavy hitting horror then you'll love this.
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