“30 Days of Night” is the best vampire movie I’ve seen in a long time. Action, suspense, horror, it’s all there. I would give it four stars out of five, but there was only one thing in the movie that I didn’t care for.
They could have given a back-story to the vampires. Where did they come from? Why did they choose to suck the life out of the town then?
“30 Days of Night,” which is based on a comic book, starts out by introducing the town of Barrow, Alaska, which is covered in darkness for a month every year.
Most of the townspeople leave during this time, and once the darkness hits, there is no means of escape to the outside world.
The town sheriff Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett), and the rest of the town are preparing for the dark month.
A few hours before darkness, weird things start happening. All the watchdogs were slain and all of the town’s communication systems were cut off.
Eben’s estranged wife Stella (Melissa George) misses the last flight out and is stuck in Barrow for the long haul. When night falls, vampire leader Marlow (Danny Huston), and his ruthless mob of bloodthirsty vampires descend on the frigid town.
Once the vampires hit the town, all chaos breaks out, leaving the humans with the choice of either hiding or dying. The residents of this northernmost town of the United States don’t stand a chance against these savage vampires.
Eben, Stella, and a small group of townspeople do manage to find a safe house and must move from place to place in order to survive, dismembering a few vampires here and there. The vampires in this movie are extremely fast, strong, scary, and sneaky, popping out at the most random times.
This movie will make you jump. It almost makes you wish they turned the lights back on during some parts. The suspenseful music in the background will give you the chills.
“30 Days of Night” has non-stop action. Even if nothing happens, the tone of the music will keep you guessing.
The vampires tore through the town’s people left and right, leaving blood, destruction and human corpses. All who were killed by the vampires turned into bloodthirsty vampires themselves. Instead of growing in ranks and totally dominating the town, the jealous vampires severed the heads off their victims before they could transform.
Quite a few vampires were killed as well, mostly by a crazy guy in a tractor. Others got their heads chopped off by an ax. This movie is very gory; blood gets splattered around everywhere.
The movie runs 113 minutes and is rated R.