30 Days of Night

I avoided this movie for a long time as the previews just made it look all-around cheesy. It was better than I thought it would be, though not fantastic. I certainly would not call this "the best vampire movie ever" as many others have. It's a pretty stereotypical horror movie really. It even follows your usual formula for who lives and dies. The character who wants to run off and leave someone else behind to die is the one who dies himself and then you have your run-of-the-mill hero who sacrifices himself along with your troubled, but reliable-when-it-matters leading man and tough, gun-wielding blonde leading lady. Just the same as almost every other movie of this type. The flaws in this film are: Wouldn't people eventually ask questions when every year an entire Alaskan town is wiped out in winter by a blood-sucking "fire"? I am assuming that the vampires have to eat at least once every year, so this would keep happening over and over. And where do the vampires buy all their bus... Read more

One of the best vampire movies made (along with "Let the Right One In"). This is exactly how I would imagine vampires. Why would vampires mess around? They wouldn't. They would tear you apart and eat you. But at the same time, they can control their actions and plan things out. This is also a cool portrayal of how a small group of vampires would survive...and get away with it...most of the time....

Very truthfully, this movie had potential, but ended up sucking very hard. I for one will point out if something doesn't make sense or if supposedly intelligent characters are repeatedly responding to impending doom and ungodly terror all DUI. I care about the set-up, whats at stake, the characters themselves (I always was facinated with the bad guys), and yes, the story. This is a mess and it's a shame. The premise rocks. It's so painfully obvious, how was this not already done years ago? You couldn't ask for a better setting. Dark, cold and isolated, as a previous reviewer pointed out. And I must say that some of the vamps looked eerie as hell. I couldn't rip my eyes away. Gorgeously evil, I mean really beautifully scary. A kind of deformed look with the eyes a bit too close together. Some of them looked normal like the boss vamp himself. Not so scary. But other than that it bit the dust. Just stupid as hell. Dumb moves by the heroes, vampires trying to be philisophical or just walk... Read more

You'd think that at least one vampire would wise up and take advantage of the fact that Alaska spends many a day in the dark. As far as I am aware, no such fate has befallen the great northern state. Based on the comic miniseries of the same name, "30 Days of Night" gives us a good look at what might happen if a vampire and a few of his undead friends would sink their fangs into the Land of the Midnight Sun. The film opens with the small town of Barrow, Alaska preparing for its month-long dive into darkness (hence the thirty days of night). Most of the town's citizens are heading for sunnier locations, but a select few stay behind and stick it out. In this small group is the local sheriff, Eben (Josh Hartnett). While everyone is getting ready to leave, he's busy investigating a number of strange criminal acts (burning of cellular phones, slaughtering sled dogs, etc.). As he digs deeper into his investigation, he arrests a stranger (Ben Foster) who begins to wax prophetic about... Read more

In "30 Days of Night" a horror film co-produced by Sam Raimi, people living in the remote town of Barrow, Alaska are attacked by a group of blood-thirty vampires. The time is winter, when the sun doesn't rise for thirty days, and any communication with the world outside is virtually impossible (the nearest town is 80 miles away). Except for the unique premise, however, "30 Days of Night" is mostly a reworking of old vampire/zombie films. There is more violence, and gores too, and it is much to the credit that the film's photography (by Jo Willems) captures the gloomy atmosphere of the isolated town where the sun doesn't shine. But when it comes to the storytelling skills, the film (directed by David Slade, "Hard Candy") is at best average. Things are predictable. Characters act exactly the way you think they will. What you have seen in other films you will see again. This is not to say that everything in "30 Days of Night" is cliché. The "vampire" leader (Danny Huston in special ... Read more

Probably the least interesting group of vampires ever committed to celluloid. Great concept- but too many plot holes and not nearly as good as it should have been.  The vamps do a lot of standing around. . .hello, vampires quick because they're undead? (don't need oxygen?) Anyone? Vampires go fast for food/blood? Anyone? The vamps stare like ghetto-licious analog TV owners at Best Buy gawking at the hi-def flat screens in the electronics section. . .

I don't believe vampires really exist (although I'd like to think that if one dark night, I ran into someone with glowing red eyes and fangs, I wouldn't stupidly say "that can't be" until I got my throat ripped out). But if they did exist, I have a feeling that they'd be a lot more like the horrific, bestial creatures in "Thirty Days of Night" and "Salem's Lot" than the prettified vampires that Hollywood most often produces for us. Thirty Days of Night really is an excellent horror movie. The monsters are truly frightening (but not conjurations of special effects). The setting, a small Alaskan town plunged into a natural darkness that is made unnatural by the presence of the vampires, and the frenetic pace of the action scenes really do work together. The actors who play the heroic sheriff and the lead vampire give outstanding performances, making the most of relatively thin characters. My favorite single scene is when a soon to be killed survivor pleads for God's help when she... Read more

I am not a Vampire fan. I am more of a Zombie fan. This is like watching a really good Zombie film. The idea of the film is great, with darkness falling for days. A premiss for a great Vampire movie. To me it worked great. The Vampire Zombie Peeps are really creepy, and just because Josh is in the movie doesn't mean it's going to be a Feel-good Vampire movie. He was actually really good in this. If Keaneu Reeves had done it, it would have been a dreadful pile of steaming crap... You must see this movie if you like Vampire/Zombie horror. It's what a Vampire movie should be like. Not like all the pop-culture crap out there these days.

This is one of my favorites. I'm getting a little tired of the zombie/vampire genre, but this one is a standout. Like a good horror movie, the atmosphere is eerie throughout with good mood music, camera work, etc. The sets are great, and this is particularly fantastic in Blu Ray. Good acting, good story, and generally well entertaining.

The 30-days-of-night film adaptation fails to bring to the screen the originality of the original medium's grimy ambiance. The special effects and make up techniques carry most of the burden and only the cast of the leading characters portraying the "bad guys", although sometimes falling over the edge in their mimic portray of raging emotions and animalistic expressions, manage to depict part of the authenticity of the theme. The film adaptation also fails to keep up the suspense, making some scenes either boring or irrelevant (i.e. check scene where deranged old man escapes from hiding and son follows to save him but the camera shows only destiny of the latter); in some cases it even fails to convince how the supernatural traits of this particular breed of vampires seem to gradually diminish and thus allowing to the god guys to bring some successfully delivered devastating blows. Moreover, the film gives the impression that the director has not decided whether the vampires move with u... Read more

I enjoyed this film from beginning to end and have watched it many times although normally I have zero interest in vampires as they are clownish and not frightening in the least. What made this film a 5 is the plot's uniqueness in how vampires are portrayed. Unique in that who would have ever thought to bring vampires to Alaska where it stays dark for 30 days. No coffins to be seen (so mundane) and they do not speak English much. These vampires have no interest in communicating with humans. There is also none of that ridiculous male vampire to female woman sexual undertone in this film. These vampires are extremely vicious, quick, cruel, intelligent and secretive. Humans are food-period. The people of Barrow reacted the way any population would-with bravery and insight. They were not going to go down without a fight. The ending was also amazingly unique because no one had ever thought to beat vampires at their own game.

very gorey, and predictable. Wasn't impressed with anything in this movie. My friend that I watched the movie with jumps at everything and she wasn't that scared with the movie. The worse part was the ending. I hated how he gave himself up, but it did leave it open for a sequal, where she could go seek revenge.

great horror movie definatly worth seeing

HOW CAN THE TOWN OF BARROW, ALASKA SURVIVE WHEN THE SUNLIGHT NEVER COMES??? "That cold ain't the weather, that's death approachin'." -The Stranger BY: SHAWN CHURCHILL QUICK SUMMARY In the town of Barrow, Alaska, during a certain time of the year, for a full 30 days there's no sun at all, just darkness. Vampires that have lived for centuries decide to use this full month to eat to their heart's content on humans, slaughtering, biting, massacring the population of Barrow, Alaska. One man, the sheriff of Barrow, Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett) and his wife Stella Oleson (Melissa George) with whom at the moment are seperated/havin' some marriage woes or something.. who cares?! 30 Days of Night isn't 'bout love jeez!! Yes, there's blood, gallons of it!!FANFREAKIN'TASTIC!! Well, Eben and Stella help and protect those who haven't been consumed by the army of vampires, the survivors hide.. the vampires feast and feast, heh. Those that aren't slaughtered immediately are truly %&$^... Read more