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Product Description: Columbia Pictures 30 Days Of Night (Blu-ray) 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, thirtydays 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Not for the weak of heart Talk about a bloodfest, if you are weak of heart and afraid of blood, this is not for you. But if you are like me and can watch anything with the lights off and no one in the house, this the film for you. Very violent and plenty of intense moments. This is the kind of movie thats jumps out the screen at you at the theatre or whereever you maybe. Rating:  - I'm one of the view who actually loved this movie!!!Realizing that people have different opinions about what they read and watch, and that not all will agree with each other on what's good and what isn't, I was still somewhat surprised by how many viewers didn't find the horror movie, 30 Days of Night, to be as great as I did. I'm usually pretty hard on horror flicks and don't expect a lot when I go to see one, but 30 Days of Night won me over in a way that left me stunned at the end of the movie and wanting to immediately see it again. Directed by David Slade, the story takes place in Barrow, Alaska (a real town), which is in the northern part of the state and once a year experiences thirty days of night. Most of the town's people head south for the entire month, but there are enough humans left to entice a group of roving vampires to spend some quality vacation time there. It all begins when a stranger arrives (played wonderfully by Ben Foster) during the last day of light and cuts the telephone lines and kills the sled dogs so that the remaining town's people will be snowed in and unable to escape the wrath of his master, Marlow. The vampires then waste little time in attacking the town and killing every human being they can get their hands and teeth on. It's the town's sheriff (played by Josh Hartnett) and his estranged wife (played by Melissa George) who manage to gather the surviving citizens and to find a place where they can hide from their hungry predators. The problem, of course, is finding a way to stay alive until ... Read More Rating:  - Gorgeously crafted and completely inaneAs the sun sets on Barrow, Alaska, for its annual month of arctic night, the town is beset by a series of sabotages which soon escalate into violent attacks. Sheriff Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett) and Stella (Melissa George), his estranged fire-marshal wife who is trapped in Barrow when she misses the last plane out, quickly discover the town is being invaded by vampires. With no sunlight to save them for another 30 days, they and the usual rag-tag bunch of disposable companions have an impossible fight on their hands... Beautifully shot by Jo Willems this film's visual style is the best thing about it. It really is an exquisite-looking failure. What's missing is any real tension or suspense. The setup is wonderful, but the plotting is lame. Once the terrified locals figure out what's afoot, there's nothing driving the plot but the obvious and rather non-narrative urge to bunker down and wait it out. As it happens, that's surprisingly easy given the vampires seem to have amazing physicality but no common sense. There are cheats aplenty, with the survivors wandering through blizzards and somehow magically moving from building to building with ease, when at other times they dare not open the door for fear of attack. The size of both the town and the band of blood-suckers seem to change for convenience. There's very little in the way of innovation from the survivors, who only rarely lock-on to what this kind of story always requires of them: "Hey, let's figure out what these creatures are, what kills them, ... Read More Rating: - ONE OF THE BEST VAMPIRE FILMS IN YEARSWhen 30 Day of Night first came out in comic form back in 2002, I was only reading comics casually. Still, I kept hearing more and more about the series. The first issue had already escalated ridiculously in value and I didn't read it until it was published in collected format. My initial thoughts upon finishing the book were that it would make a great movie. The idea of vampires attacking a town near the Arctic Circle that is shrouded in darkness for a month was quite brilliant and terrifying as well. Barrow is that little, Alaskan town whose population is drastically reduced when the Sun finally sets for thirty days. Most of the inhabitants head for warmer and brighter areas, leaving only the heartiest folk behind. Using a lead lackey, the vampires cut the town off from the outside world...destroying cell phones, knocking out power and phone lines, and killing all the sled dogs. The vampires descend upon the town like death itself, killing every person they can find. Only a small group of survivors led by Sheriff Eben Oleson (Hartnett) and his wife Stella (George), manage to flee the slaughter but will they survive to see the Sun eventually rise? Great care was taken by director David Slade and his team to maintain the look and feel of the comic book. Slade refers to the look as a "metallic coldness" which is a great description of Ben Templesmith's unusual sketchy art style. The darkness is overwhelming for the residents of Barrow and their feeling of helplessness ... Read More Rating:  - 30 Days of NightThis movie would have been an instant classic if they fleshed out the characters. The acting is surprisingly good for a contemporary horror movie. However, the tension build-up isn't given enough time before spattering into a gore-fest. The vampires are viscerally brutal; more so than in most vampire movies. They aren't chic, hip, or decadent - they shriek, decapitate, and gnaw to the bone. Josh Hartnett is well-casted, as is Melissa George. There simply isn't enough character development in the movie to warrant a score higher than three stars. In a contemporary horror movie, if one has gotten as far as making me care about the actual characters opposed to how and when I watch them get slaughtered, that warrants three stars alone. It's a shame they didn't run with this; there is so much untapped potential that I watch it repeatedly, hoping it will eventually show itself. Browse for similar items by category:
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