30 Days Of Night [Blu-ray]
starring: Jr. Mark Boone, Joel Tobeck, Danny Huston, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Nathaniel Lees
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Studio: Sony Pictures Home EntRelease Date: 02/26/2008Run time: 113 minutesRating: R
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David (Hard Candy) Slade directs this nerve-jangling adaptation of the popular graphic novel series about a mob of vampires that overruns a remote Alaskan town in the grip of 30 Days of Night. Josh Hartnett and Melissa George are the film's de facto heroes (he's the stoic town sheriff and she's his estranged fire-marshal wife) but the picture's real MVP is Slade's camera (along with cinematographer Jo Willems), which careens across the town's snowy landscape to detail the vampires' horrific assault on its inhabitants, which are quickly pared down to a hardy few. The script, co-written by the source material's creator, Steve Niles, along with Pirates of the Caribbean's Stuart Beattie and Hard Candy's Brian Nelson), proudly wears its influences on its crimson-stained sleeve (Bram Stoker's Dracula, natch, but also Salem's Lot, Night of the Living Dead, and John Carpenter's version of The Thing) and boils down the graphic novels to a series of tense and extremely bloody standoffs between Harnett and George's band of survivors and the vaguely Slavic and ferocious bloodsuckers led by Marlow (a feral and frightening Danny Huston). And if the characters seem stock and the finale begs suspension of disbelief, the set pieces leading up to it are sufficiently supercharged with suspense and violence to please most horror fans. Standouts in the supporting cast are Ben Foster as the film's Renfield figure and Mark Boone Junior; the disturbing score by Brian Reitzell also merits a mention. --Paul Gaita
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Beyond 30 Days of Night
Studio: Sony Pictures Home EntRelease Date: 02/26/2008Run time: 113 minutesRating: R
Amazon.com:
David (Hard Candy) Slade directs this nerve-jangling adaptation of the popular graphic novel series about a mob of vampires that overruns a remote Alaskan town in the grip of 30 Days of Night. Josh Hartnett and Melissa George are the film's de facto heroes (he's the stoic town sheriff and she's his estranged fire-marshal wife) but the picture's real MVP is Slade's camera (along with cinematographer Jo Willems), which careens across the town's snowy landscape to detail the vampires' horrific assault on its inhabitants, which are quickly pared down to a hardy few. The script, co-written by the source material's creator, Steve Niles, along with Pirates of the Caribbean's Stuart Beattie and Hard Candy's Brian Nelson), proudly wears its influences on its crimson-stained sleeve (Bram Stoker's Dracula, natch, but also Salem's Lot, Night of the Living Dead, and John Carpenter's version of The Thing) and boils down the graphic novels to a series of tense and extremely bloody standoffs between Harnett and George's band of survivors and the vaguely Slavic and ferocious bloodsuckers led by Marlow (a feral and frightening Danny Huston). And if the characters seem stock and the finale begs suspension of disbelief, the set pieces leading up to it are sufficiently supercharged with suspense and violence to please most horror fans. Standouts in the supporting cast are Ben Foster as the film's Renfield figure and Mark Boone Junior; the disturbing score by Brian Reitzell also merits a mention. --Paul Gaita
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- Fun ride if you don't think about it
I've been hearing how bad this movie was from it's first day in the box office and while I agree, it is a bad movie, I had a lot of fun along the way.If I had to sit through a reading of the script I'd probably want shoot myself but the acting was sufficient to keep engaged and while never scary it did manage to keep me tense at a few points.The action was pretty decent, I thought they handled the speed of the vampires pretty well at a few points and the art design was pretty creative as well. ... Read More
Rating: 
- The sun also rises
Based on a three-issue limited comic series later collected as a graphic novel (which was itself originally written as a movie script), 30 DAYS OF NIGHT works strongest from its visual aspect. The director David Slade really assembled a few very unforgettable images that are salted throughout this work and which are really quite stunning, especially at the very beginning when a mysterious stranger (Ben Foster), with his parka limned with rime, stares at a desolate giant ship stranded in the Arctic ... Read More
Rating: 
- Not quite but close
For those of you who liked the graphic novel, this is close but not quite it.The director does a great job in keeping to the spirit of the story but makes a few unnecessary plot changes I felt.Some of the scenes are taken almost verbatim from the original story and are done remarkably well.As a whole this is not a movie for the timid.These are not the nice quaint Anne Rice Euro-vampires we've all become accustomed to in the last 10 years or so.No Twilight vampire-lite here, this is your old ... Read More
Rating: - Eh!
The blood and viscious kills were awesome.The "caring" 1/2 human 1/2 vampire...and the stupid love story (ending) "killed" it!
Rating: - movie purchase
I cannot give a legitimate review of this purchase because as of yet it has yet to be completed to my satisfaction.
- Fun ride if you don't think about itI've been hearing how bad this movie was from it's first day in the box office and while I agree, it is a bad movie, I had a lot of fun along the way.If I had to sit through a reading of the script I'd probably want shoot myself but the acting was sufficient to keep engaged and while never scary it did manage to keep me tense at a few points.The action was pretty decent, I thought they handled the speed of the vampires pretty well at a few points and the art design was pretty creative as well. ... Read More
- The sun also risesBased on a three-issue limited comic series later collected as a graphic novel (which was itself originally written as a movie script), 30 DAYS OF NIGHT works strongest from its visual aspect. The director David Slade really assembled a few very unforgettable images that are salted throughout this work and which are really quite stunning, especially at the very beginning when a mysterious stranger (Ben Foster), with his parka limned with rime, stares at a desolate giant ship stranded in the Arctic ... Read More
- Not quite but closeFor those of you who liked the graphic novel, this is close but not quite it.The director does a great job in keeping to the spirit of the story but makes a few unnecessary plot changes I felt.Some of the scenes are taken almost verbatim from the original story and are done remarkably well.As a whole this is not a movie for the timid.These are not the nice quaint Anne Rice Euro-vampires we've all become accustomed to in the last 10 years or so.No Twilight vampire-lite here, this is your old ... Read More
- Eh!The blood and viscious kills were awesome.The "caring" 1/2 human 1/2 vampire...and the stupid love story (ending) "killed" it!
- movie purchaseI cannot give a legitimate review of this purchase because as of yet it has yet to be completed to my satisfaction.
