Horror Film Review

30 days of night was such an entertaining film and very bloody and gory, so I certainly thought it was worth a mention and review.

The film itself is a movie adaptation of a wonderful graphic novel written by the screenplay writer of the film Steven Niles and with art by Ben Templesmith, the artwork of the graphic novel stuck with me for a long time with it’s use of dark colours and vivid professional design.

30 days of night, the film itself is a worthy translation in terms of the concept, which is set in an Alaskan town called Barrow and the story begins on the last day of sun when the Alaskan sun sets for 30 full nights and this brings with it some very nasty vampires who come to feast on the inhabitants of Barrow.

These vampires are not your typical “I Vant To Suck Your Blood” they just do it and rip peoples throats out and move on to the next victim, the vampires have a language that almost sounds latin or old world and this makes it all the more scary for me (I always found Latin quite scary for some reason!)

As with any film of this genre and lots of gore and bloody guts, a few survive and have to hide out for the remainder of the 30 days, and as such some of the towns annoying characters get picked off too…lets cheer!!

The big bad vampire is a vampire called Marlow played by Danny Huston.

 And he thinks he calls the shots but there are a few things in the film that say he doesn’t, for instance he says to the other vampires to cut the heads off the dead because they shouldn’t turn into vampires, but a few people in the film become vampires, so he can’t be all that good as a leader, fair enough some of them do get bit by other vampires and such but anyway he is still a very vicious blood thirsty vampire as are the rest of them.

Plus they don’t look like the traditional vampires either which is a refreshing change, they have shark like teeth and black demonic eyes which almost made me poop my pants, but then I realized it was only a film.

Right at the beginning the film builds the tension up by letting the last day of sun add up the preparation of the vampires coming by getting a stranger to prepare for their coming in return for them to take him with them…those poor Husky dogs get stabbed to death.

I liked the ending of the film though and it was a classic ending and one that will go down as the best ending so far in terms of recent films anyway(I hate abrupt endings that fail to close anything…Remember Cloverfield!!?)

The ending is quite sad but on reflection someone had to make a stand against the evil blood suckers before they simply just disappeared, but the love story of the film wasn’t too strong that it over powered the films main plot which again was nice.

Josh Harnetts character Sherrif Eben And Melissa George who played Stella,their acting just seemed to work well together and brought a real sense of emotion to their roles and often makes you think that no matter what, you should talk to someone you care about because you never know what could happen.

All in all the films crew including british director David Slade did an excellent job of adapting this much loved graphic novel story and creating an instant classic for many years to come.