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30 Days of Night (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 143
Fresh: 71
Rotten:72
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Consensus: While 30 Days of Night offers a few thrills, it ultimately succumbs to erratic execution.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong horror violence and language.
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release: Oct 19, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $39,568,996
Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster, Mark Boone
Director: David Slade
Director: David Slade
Screenwriter: Steve Niles, Stuart Beattie, Brian Nelson
Producer: Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert
Composer: Brian Reitzell
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment
DVD Info
Release:
Feb 26, 2008
DVD Features:
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.40
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional
- Subtitles - English - Closed Captioned
Additional Release Materials:
- Audio Commentary - Josh Hartnett, Melissa George - Stars; Rob Tapert - Producer
- Featurettes - 1. "Pre-Production"
- 2. "The Vampire"
- 3. "Building Barrow"
- 4. "The Look"
- 5. "Blood, Guts & the Nasty #@$&!"
- 6. "Night Shoots"
- 7. "Stunts"
- 8. "Casting"
Reviews for 30 Days of Night
30 Days of Night aspires to be little more than a movie-movie, where you're supposed to enjoy the ride, without asking any questions.
... [T]he hissing foreign-language chatting vampires, with all pointy teeth, make for dull, screaming villains.
The action is fast and gruesome, but beyond Niles and Templesmith's unique setting, in which the typical race to daylight is stretched out to an agonizing marathon, '30 Days of Night' offers little to stir the imagination.
I was done when there was a needless scene abusing a woman. And the ending was on the verge of interesting, until it came down to one little punch.
30 Days of Night reinvents the vampire movie, but only with its novel premise.
Concept: excellent. Setup: intriguing. Execution: well... too many interesting ideas bungled.
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Os vampiros vistos aqui são pouco mais do que animais irracionais e desinteressantes.
It would be fun to rent with friends who talk back to movies and imbibe a little ETOH to facilitate the witty comebacks. Compared to the other Halloween offerings out there this year, 30 Days of Night is really pretty decent value for your money. Great
Overall, the film is freaky and gruesome enough to keep horror fans thrilled, especially as the monsters get stronger, faster, badder and nuttier.
30 Days Of Night has a terrific premise and an intriguing setting, but it's badly let down by poor direction, dismal acting and an appalling script.
A real baying-at-the-moon gorefest, unusual both for its savagery and for a half-decent performance from Hartnett.
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