30 Days of Night | Josh Hartnett, Melissa George | Can They Truly Last 30 Nights With These Beasts?

30 Days of Night | Josh Hartnett, Melissa George | 30 Days of Night

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30 Days of Night

	30 Days of Night Josh Hartnett, Melissa George Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2008 average customer review:based on 222 reviews view larger image
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Josh Harnett (Black Dahlia Pearl Harbor) crosses over to the dark side in this bone-chilling adaptation of the cult-hit graphic novel brought to the screen in all its demonic glory. In a small Alaskan town thirty days of night is a natural phenomenon. Very few outsiders visit until a band of bloodthirsty deathly pale vampires mark their arrival by savagely attacking sled dogs. But soon they find there are much more satisfying thirst-quenchers about: human beings. One by one the townspeople succumb to a living nightmare but a small group survives at least for now. The vampires use the dark to their advantage and surviving this cold hell is a game of cat and mouse and screams.System Requirements:Run Time: 113 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER Rating: R UPC: 043396196155 Manufacturer No: 19615

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Can They Truly Last 30 Nights With These Beasts?

First off, I have never read of the comic book series 30 Days Of Night so none of that will be in my review. As for the film, it wasn't half bad, maybe a little far fetched but not that bad. 30 Days of Night takes place in Barrow Alaska where every year they have 30 straight days of night. Really when you think about it, this is an ideal town for a gory vampire horror film seeing as they could basically feast all day and night without the sun interrupting them. I was very interested to see this after hearing that mega factor. The smart residents usually leave around this time to head south.

As the town is settling in for this, a weird stranger comes walking in the town(Ben Foster). His identity is never revealed but he definitely knows exactly what is coming towards the town. He is under the belief that the vampires will make him one of them if he helps sabotage the town before they arrive themselves. The stranger does not hold his tongue when trying to scare the town and they down hesitate to put him away for the night. Sheriff Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett) takes the stranger to a cell but while there the stranger keeps on talking.

Finally the evil and incredibly odd looking creatures appear massacreing the towns people and they aren't slowing up. Oleson and others band together trying to plan their way out of this gruesome situation but by the looks of it they will not make it past the first night. With extremely cold temperatures it looks very grim especially when the vampires worst enemy is hibernating for the next 30 days.

The best aspect of 30 Days of Night had to be these weird and different vampires. The creators definitely tried to go for something new here. Not the best or scariest vampires but they tried. The story itself was nice, adding the cold and weird Alaskan weather helps add some suspense. The settings and scenarios were great but the acting was so so. I think I mainly take a star from "30 Days of Night" is because I really wanted Ben Foster to be the main villain of the film. His character really had no significance at all and if you ask me that is a waste of talent. Really, that is a waste of a guy who can play a great nutcase ("Hostage" and "3:10 to Yuma") just to name a couple. The best actor in the film has almost nothing to work do and it shows that he was needed. The film was pretty good, heavy horror fans wont be too affected but some of the lightweights may be rocked.

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30 Days of Night

The movie had a very good idea, but I don't think that it was articulated very well. I do not think of vampires as undead monsters that just go around hissing and growling, just my opinion. I feel that the movie would have been a lot better if the vampires would have been more like Viktor from underworld, as if he were on some type of rogue blood safari. These vampires were more like zombies that were on a liquid diet. The acting from the humans was not bad, but not good. I would recommend this movie for someone that likes lots of blood and killing, but not for someone that kinda likes vampires and see them for more than zombies with fangs. Thanks.

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Good, but I expected more

Overall I liked this movie. Although it had a lot of potential, the one thing I think that could've been done better was the behavior of the vampires. At times it was a little cheesy. Definately worth watching, but maybe not twice.

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