30 Days Of Night [Blu-ray]

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From J. Kaye's Book Blog [Posted on 2008-09-26]
If you are a fan of horror, better yet, vampires, watching the movie previews is enough to click that buy now button or add it to your movie rental queue. I was beyond excited to watch this. The movie had such potential.

For thirty days, Barrow, Alaska, a small town on the Arctic circle, will see no sunlight. This is a great premise for evil to come, which is does, in the form of a gang of vampires. Sadly, the movie doesn't live up to the movie trailer. The fault might be with the writers, because it surely wasn't in the acting. The Internet Movie Data Base has nine factual goofs listed.

The ending was another let down. All the heroes of this horror film won't be walking away. If I had known at the beginning who would die, I wouldn't have watched the movie. In my opinion, the ending was one of the biggest blunders.

This movie gets only three stars. Those would be for defined characters/great actors, no dull moments, and interesting plot. The bad ending and the serious off moments in the film brought the rating down.

Don't Expect Anne Rice's Kind Of Vampires In This Movie [Posted on 2008-09-28]
Two words that mostly go with this movie bloody and gory extremely satisfying to those who are getting a little tired of the PG rated violent movies that Hollywood is putting out recently. The short version of the storyline is that you have a small town in Alaska that is facing a month of night time when a few miles away you have a derelict ship crewed by vampires that are on their way to the town. The first thing you will see is that these vampires act more like wolves than the vampires you usually see in the movies like Dracula or read an books like Interview With The Vampire. Along through the movie when the vampires start attacking is when the blood really starts to flow. Again unlike most of the other movies of vampires the scenes in the movie have them basically goring and almost tearing apart their victims. While this movie won't have any nudity some viewers might be looking for the violence and carnage will definitely make up for it. The one thing I also loved about this blu-ray dvd was the picture quality and audio and while I didn't get the standard dvd to compare this one with I still am amazed at the quality of this dvd. So to anyone who's looking for their dose of vampires and bloody carnage I say this one is worth it...

At last, REAL vampires! [Posted on 2008-09-28]
In Barrow Alaska, a desolate small town, there falls a time of year where the black of night lasts for 30 days. While many flee the darkness for Anchorage, others stay behind to weather the long night. As the sun sets on our film, the sheriff is called out to investigate the brutal slaying of every available sled dog in town; a puzzling and disturbing occurrence in a small quiet town.

Night falls, and the vampires come out to play. They're ugly, deadly, and very thirsty. These are real vampires, evil and blood-driven, not the obscene domesticated vampire who wants to help humanity or the romanticized vampires of Rice and Hamilton's silly erotica novels. Their gory invasion is swift and thorough, leaving behind very few survivors. Those left must huddle together, hidden in various houses around the town as they wait for the far off dawn. The gore level escalates as the survivors discover that those bitten must be beheaded in order to keep them dead. Survival seems doubtful as the long night wears on, and the vampires just keep coming.

The best part of this movie is the vampires. I must say that they're pretty sloppy eaters, leaving lots of blood strewn about in the wake of their feasting, their mouths and clothing dripping with blood, and still gushing meals abandoned. You got to love those inky black eyes, though, and the way they keep the gore level up to entertaining levels. The survivors, however, seemed a bit wooden. Their dialogue was weak, and the characters not fully developed. This made it harder to identify with their plight. The scenes of the desolate town were adequate, but the soundtrack was also weak, not helping to build any suspense around the predicament of the survivors.

Over all, I was gratified enough by the vampires to make this an enjoyable horror flick. Recommended for fans of the old-fashioned horror-vampires, the human-cattle herders of old. Rent first before buying. Enjoy!

Boring Vampire Movie [Posted on 2008-10-01]
30 Days Of Night has an extremely interesting premises in which an Alaskan town in the midst of winter and 30 days of darkness is besieged by a horde of vampires. That's about the only interesting thing about this film. There is loads of blood and violence, but the plot is thin at best with a ridiculous ending. The acting is marginal too be kind with a very stiff performance from Josh Hartnett. One of the more annoying aspects of the film is that the lead vampire (played by Danny Huston) is the only vampire that "speaks" but the language is no more than some clicks and clucks which is subtitled. As some other reviewers have noted, the film doesn't depict the vampires as cultured fashionistas, but it goes the other direction and basically reduces them to a pack of rabid dogs.

Why so bad? [Posted on 2008-10-01]
I don't understand why this movie recieved poor reviews. The concept is excelent, the acting was pretty flawless, the FX were simple yet effective, and the vampires were the most ruthlessly frightening that I've seen in a very long time.
The only reason I can think of as to why certain viewers did'nt like this film, is that, for once, a director wanted to step outside the box of "traditional" vamp.. movies. People are just stuck on the old style. Too bad.

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