ChrisandKenny-Gras' Rating: 3 Tubs of Buttered Popcorn
In my honest opinion, the best thing about "30 Days of Night"is that it makes vampires genuinely scary again.
After many years of lackluster monsters with fangs, and fast-moving infected people or slow moving zombies, this film version of the celebrated graphic novel presents a pack of vicious but organized predators that truly seem to be stranded between the human and animal species.
Using really great make-up, Danny Huston (playing vampire leader Marlow) and his ghoul co-stars enact a band of bloodthirsty villains who justify revisiting the horror genre.
Barrow, Alaska, a real-life town north of the Arctic Circle that is abandoned by the sun for a month every year. It is also, as the movie begins, departed by a large percentage of its citizenry for that period, leaving the small number left behind, led by Sheriff Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett), vulnerable to attack, particularly by creatures against whom daylight is a key weapon. As one of the ghastly pale vampires puts it, "We should have come here long ago."
After the sun sets for the last time, and Eben starts investigating a series of crimes (burned cell phones, butchered sled dogs) designed to make it impossible to call or run for help, the stage seems set for a film-length feeding frenzy. But surprisingly, the vampires' main attack on the helpless locals is dispensed with in minutes. Leaving mostly a band of survivors led by Even (Harnett), his estranged wife, Stella (Melissa George), whom an accident has stranded.
There's juice to the monsters' performances, too, along with that of Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma), who makes an edgy impression as a stranger who turns up in town just ahead of the invasion and offers warnings of the horror to come.
There are many tense moments involving the smaller supporting roles as they make survival choices and meet their inevitable ends.The intensity and eeriness of this film is enough to scare...with that said, yeah, it is a little gory...(yes Chris!..Be a man!!!) but it's a great vampire flick too. Isn't that what vampire pics are suppose to be?
It's great to point out that this movie is produced by Spider-Man's Sam Raimi.
"30 DAYS OF NIGHT" pumps its fresh, warm blood into the vampire-film category.
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