 | Category: | Movies | | Genre: | Horror |
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OK, so the movie is actually called "30 Days of Night". The premise is that during its annual month of darkness, a group of vampires invades the town of Barrow, Alaska, terrorizing it for the entire month. An intriguing idea for a movie, really.
And before I start in on it, let me say that it's done pretty well. The vampires are creepy and there is some real tension. There are also some excellent moments of gratuitous vampire-slaughtering. But overall, I don't think it's enough to entirely distract from the problems with the movie.
These include, but are by no means limited to:
- The vampires can smell people's blood, but cannot find six people holed up in a house. In a town with like four dozen houses in it. And the people can't bathe. Or flush the toilet.
- They spend two weeks in an attic. What do they eat?
- The opening credit says that the town is hundreds of miles from anything, and there is no road into Barrow. (All this is apparently true). So how do the vampires get there? Do they walk?
- The vampires can move at amazing speeds, even catching up to cars, but when people run from them, they shuffle around like zombies.
- People who cannot grow facial hair, shouldn't.
- On a related note, Josh Hartnett is too young to be a sheriff.
- Why did the vampires kill everybody in the first ten minutes they attacked the town, then spend weeks looking for the dozen or so they missed? The idea is to eat, yes?
- The chief effect of being immortal in this movie seems to be to make people stupid and suffer from poor hygiene.
- And screech a lot. That screeching has to stop.
- There was absolutely no nudity in this movie.
 | LOL, screeeeeccchhhhhh
What? No nudity? Damn it anyway!!!! |
 | [Spoiler Alert]
I actually enjoyed this movie, for a Vampire movie they took it a different direction then they normally go. It showed the Vampires as being smart for the most part and calculating.
I also was wondering why the complete binge in the beginning where they took most of the town right away, that did not seem to make sense considering the other 29 days you will probably be hungry. However the fact that they even had the one girl whom they made walk down the street may indicate they had some stashed away.
Also at the end of the movie there were other people coming out in to the street, indicating that others had survived as well.
This was, for me, one of the better horror movies to come out in a while, perfect, no, but I would rate it at least 3 1/2. |
| BTW to answer your question of how the vampires go there, they did it via the large cargo ship they showed in the beginning. The same one that human was looking at, the one who sabotaged the town for the vampires. |
 | jvon wrote on Oct 29, '07 Ah, the cargo ship makes sense I suppose.
I actually enjoyed it too, I just thought there was some stuff in it that was annoying. The lack of nudity though, there's just no excuse for that. ;)
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| jvon wrote on Oct 29, '07 Oh I also thought it was interesting that all comms were cut off to/from the town for an entire month and no one came to investigate. I think even up in Alaska they'd check.
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| Perhaps they did, and then the vampires ate them.
We could not see it since we were following a crowd hiding in a basement with an unlimited supply of food :D |
| lol, yea, don't forget that unlimited supply of food and uhm, bathroom too I'd imagine. |
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