30 Days of Night               

The story of an isolated Alaskan town in Barrow, Alaska, every winter the town is plunged into a 30 day darkness each year, the sun sinks below the horizon. As the sun fades many travel to other places until the 30 days is done and some stay. The town is visited by a stranger and a large ship in the ocean. The first signs of trouble the local sheriff played by Eben (Josh Harnet) and his deputy Billy find all the towns cell phones burned up in the snow, the local sled dogs where all slaughtered. The sheriff’s wife (Melissa George), has plans to leave but has a accident on the way to the last plane that is leaving before the darkness comes, so she is stuck there for the next 30 days.

The movie did move at a moderate-fast pace, not just waiting for some action. The stranger is in local diner causing trouble and arrested, the stranger frightens the sheriff, as he is continuing saying “they are coming and the locals will be dead” The sheriff discovers the town is under attack by a gang of blood thirsty vampires. The vampires cut off all local communication to the outside, the main line phones, the computers and the power grids as they were truly plunged into darkness. The communication is cut; the sheriff goes to cell tower to find the decapitated head of the operator on a post out side. He truly realizes now that the small town is in major trouble. He sees the small group of town people and tell them to return to there homes and turn the generators on and sit with the shot guns, and those who do not have generators meet at the diner.

The Vampires began there violent rage of each towns person, slicing there faces, slitting their necks, and eating there flesh. The vampires’ communication is not English, it is a language of their own, so it is subtitled, I had to rewind to truly understand the communication and what and why they were there, and honestly I still did not.  The vampires continue the killing of all the towns’ people, the camera aerial view of the town, as the slaughter continues was a good view. Through out the movie the vampires had blood on there a face that was uniformed; I want to say that it became frozen on their faces because it never changed form.

The lifting of the SUV by the vampires was a good visual effect. The brutal taunting and killing of a woman whom the vampires used to possible force out the other survivors who were hiding in a homes attack was a little extreme for me I could understand them doing a man like this, but a woman. The woman was used to force out the others in hiding to save her, but it did not work. The Vampire attack continued for a total of 29 days, the final fight, the sheriff in order to save the few that were left, shot himself up with blood to infect him, he believes they are unable to fight them off with what they have, so he becomes a vampire, kills the leader by punching him through the face with his fist, as the others disappear, the sheriff and his wife realize that the sun is coming up, and this the way he will die, he and his wife are sitting on the horizon embracing, and the sun peaks out he begins to burn in her arms.

This movie was based on a horror-comic book series that at one point presented as a movie but was rejected. The success of the comic book, sparked the movie and it was a 30 million budget, which it gross 75 million in the theaters.

The movie released a sequel which went straight to DVD 30 days of night: Dark days.

Plot was good, continual blood and quick scenes as the vampires strike, made you jump a little, the acting was good and intense, visuals I enjoyed, except at times as they were fighting in a group it became dark to see, what was going on. I do recommend the flick, and be weary of watching at night alone as I did, I became a little jumpy. But it was all good.  

Recomendation A must see.

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