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30 Days of Night, 2007
English
USA
Profile of 30 Days of Night
30 Days of Night can be described as scary, rough, and suspenseful. The plot revolves around vampires, survival, and vengeance. The main genres are thriller and horror. In terms of style, 30 Days of Night is gory and features martial arts. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. The storytelling is fast paced. 30 Days of Night is set, at least in part, in a small town. It is located in Alaska. It takes place in contemporary times. 30 Days of Night is well suited for a boys' night.
Summary of 30 Days of Night
Based on the graphic novel by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT works overtime to pump fresh life into the vampire genre. Director David Slade (HARD CANDY) has created a series of pulse-pounding sequences, ripe with carnage, employing few tricks to keep his vision from getting lost in the seemingly tireless undertow of "undead" films. Located in the northernmost part of Alaska, the town of Barrow experiences a complete lack of sunshine for an entire month once a year. The town is populated with tough, hardworking, and generally law-abiding citizens, so there hasn't been much for Sheriff Eben Olesen (Josh Hartnett) to do except brood over his separation from his fire marshall wife, Stella (Melissa George). As darkness descends for its annual 30-day day, though, a series of bizarre discoveries rocks the town--and very soon vampiric Marlow (Danny Huston) and his minions arrive, slaughtering and sucking on everyone they can catch, safe in the knowledge that they have much longer than usual until sunup. Eben, his little brother Jake (Mark Rendall), Stella, and a handful of others are forced to hide and fight for their lives until the sun returns.
Clearly inspired by the sprinting zombies of Danny Boyle's 28 DAYS LATER and Zach Snyder's DAWN OF THE DEAD, Slade makes these vampires lightning-fast creatures of destruction. With ratlike makeup design indebted to NOSFERATU, they are effectively spooky. This is as much an action film as a horrific one. The lead-in time until the tale's initial fireworks is brief, and the pace thereafter is relentless. The script, co-written by Niles, is tense and avoids tension-killing humor that ruins so many contemporary studio horror efforts. 30 DAYS OF NIGHT never plays it safe; primary characters bite the dust, children fall into harm's way, and a lot of pretty white scenery turns red before our eyes.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 19 October 2007 |
| Runtime: | 113 min |
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as Sheriff Eben Oleson
as Stella Oleson
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Critics Reviews
Washington Post
Directed by David Slade ("Hard Candy"), the action scenes are artful and terrifying; these killers move so quickly and decisively, there seems to be no hope for humanity.
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- by: Desson Thomson
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Which is more interesting: Vampires fighting over the potential long-term blowback of their Alaskan buffet, or a couple of exes bonding under duress? Seems like an easy decision, but 30 Days Of Night makes the wrong choice.
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- by: Scott Tobias
Users Reviews
Good horror film with excellent production design and cinematography, but not enough character development. I didn't know any of the people in the movie well enough to really care who survived, but the 'vampires' were really intriguing (whoever...
- 30.June.2010
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- by: Rodney Wollam
- Rodney Wollam rated this movie
0/10
There are definitely some problems in the plot department, but they are completely eclipsed by the positive aspects of the film. Excellent cinematography brings the desolate location to life. The film manages to do something new with vampires, and...
- 10.October.2009
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- by: Chucky
- Chucky rated this movie0/10
