30 Days of Night
by David Slade
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Actor: Ben Foster, Danny Huston, Josh Hartnett, Mark Rendall, Melissa GeorgeDirector: David Slade
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of 30 Days of Night
DVD Review: Great Eerie Atmosphere Throughout
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one of my favorites. I'm getting a little tired of the zombie/vampire genre, but this one is a standout. Like a good horror movie, the atmosphere is eerie throughout with good mood music, camera work, etc. The sets are great, and this is particularly fantastic in Blu Ray. Good acting, good story, and generally well entertaining. DVD Review: 90 minutes of disappointment?
Summary: 2 Stars
The 30-days-of-night film adaptation fails to bring to the screen the originality of the original medium's grimy ambiance. The special effects and make up techniques carry most of the burden and only the cast of the leading characters portraying the "bad guys", although sometimes falling over the edge in their mimic portray of raging emotions and animalistic expressions, manage to depict part of the authenticity of the theme. The film adaptation also fails to keep up the suspense, making some scenes either boring or irrelevant (i.e. check scene where deranged old man escapes from hiding and son follows to save him but the camera shows only destiny of the latter); in some cases it even fails to convince how the supernatural traits of this particular breed of vampires seem to gradually diminish and thus allowing to the god guys to bring some successfully delivered devastating blows. Moreover, the film gives the impression that the director has not decided whether the vampires move with unnatural speed and strength or not. In general, the movie gave too much attention to the violence and ignored the innovative depiction of the particular vampires which bring to the genre. The artistic approach removed the spotlight from the theatrical depiction of the real protagonists who should have been the eternally damned. Positive elements kept from the original medium include make up of the vampires which reminds evolutionary steps to the now classic Nosferatu, some pseudo- or real philosophical innuendos which the viewer can approach in a variety of ways and based on their individual social and religious background. In other words, disappointment for those who read the comic and then watch the film. Surely not very appealing to non friends of the horror genre.DVD Review: Unique, Vicious, Interesting
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoyed this film from beginning to end and have watched it many times although normally I have zero interest in vampires as they clownish and not frightening in the least.
What made this film a 5 is the plot's uniqueness in how vampires are portrayed.
Unique in that who would have ever thought to bring vampires to Alaska where it stays dark for 30 days. No coffins to be seen (so mundane) and they do not speak English. These vampires have no interest in communicating with humans. There is also none of that ridiculous male vampire to female woman sexual undertone in this film.
These vampires are extremely vicious, quick, cruel, intelligent and secretive. Humans are food-period.
The people of Barrow reacted the way any population would-with bravery and insight. They were not going to go down without a fight.
The ending was also amazingly unique because no one had ever thought to beat vampires at their own game.
DVD Review: good scary movie
Summary: 5 Stars
this movie is one of the few horror movies that has a decent plot, and has realistic outcomes of what people do when they are trying to survive. Josh Hartnett carries the movie!DVD Review: This is razor sharp awesome vampire movie
Summary: 4 Stars
It's been a while since we had a proper decent vampire movie and this on the comics by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith is up there as one of the best vampire movies you can ever see!
The story is set in Barrow Alaska: is a remote and is isolated town, that on every winter is plunged into a state of total darkness, unfortunely for those who live there, a group of blood crazed vamps have come to spend a month long uninterrupeted feast on the residents of Barrow, so it's down o sheriff Eben (Josh Hartnett),his estranged wife Stella (Melissa George) and a small group of survivors to try and stay alive for the winter.
Film director David Slade (Hard Candy) has done a fine job in bringing this comic book to life on film, the the music is tense, all the cast members did well and the FX was top notch.
30 Days Of Night is a magnificently scary, terrifying white knuckle ride of a horror film, which gives you a very good reason to be scared of vampires all over again.
Description of 30 Days of Night
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, thirty days 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.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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