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30 Days of Night (2007)

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Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 155
Fresh: 78 | Rotten: 77

While 30 Days of Night offers a few thrills, it ultimately succumbs to erratic execution.

Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 15

While 30 Days of Night offers a few thrills, it ultimately succumbs to erratic execution.

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Movie Info

Hard Candy director David Slade took the helm for this adaptation of Steve Niles' terrifying comic-book series of the same name. In Barrow, AK, one night can last an eternity. One month every year, this town is plunged into darkness for 30 days due to its location far north of the Arctic Circle. While extended periods of darkness are something that the locals have become accustomed to, this year something sinister is about to emerge from the long and unforgiving night. As a maniacal horde of

R, 1 hr. 53 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Horror

Directed By: David Slade

Written By: Steve Niles, Stuart Beattie, Brian Nelson

In Theaters: Oct 19, 2007 Wide

On DVD: Feb 19, 2008

Box Office:$39.6M

Sony Pictures/Columbia

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Critic Reviews for 30 Days of Night

All Critics (156) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (82) | Rotten (79) | DVD (24)

Feels derivative of 28 Days Later.

January 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Andrea Gronvall

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

The problem is structural. After the invasion, we're marooned with the dull survivors.

October 27, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Magazine

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David Edelstein

New York Magazine

Top Critic

A terrific horror premise goes begging in the garbled Halloween offering 30 Days of Night.

October 24, 2007 Comment (1)

Megan Lehmann

Hollywood Reporter

Top Critic

It has a fairly original premise and some blood-curdling moments, but it's also predictable, repetitive and vile.

October 22, 2007 Comments (8)

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

If this is the kind of movie you're looking for, it delivers.

October 20, 2007 Full Review Source: ReelViews

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James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

30 Days of Night is the kind of gruesome but entertaining survival guide you pray you never have to follow: how to stop vampires killing you during the darkest days of Alaskan winter.

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

It's Assault on Precinct 13 meets the The Thing with vampires as the baddies (Can we count the ways director John Carpenter has influenced genre films today?).

November 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Metro Times (Detroit, MI)

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Jeff Meyers

Metro Times (Detroit, MI)

30 Days of Night is a great example on how to combine chills, thrills and gore with the end result a serious and effective horror movie.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Matt's Movie Reviews

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Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

These 30 Days feel like an eternity

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Scrapping many of the undead cliches and aided by troublingly realistic special effects, Slade has crafted one hell of a monster movie.

July 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Times-Picayune

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Mike Scott

Times-Picayune

About as scary as Count Chocula.

April 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix

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Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix

La pel�cula se las arregla para ser un entretenimiento inquietante, con algunas escenas de suspenso y de acci�n muy bien resueltas (...)

February 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Uruguay Total

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Enrique Buchichio

Uruguay Total

Not bad, but let's just say the movie could have used a tad more intentional humor.

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review

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Jonathan Kiefer

Sacramento News & Review

Very-bloody vampire movie lacks bite. No kids.

July 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Cynthia Fuchs

Common Sense Media

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.

July 9, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter

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Steve Biodrowski

ESplatter

... [T]he hissing foreign-language chatting vampires, with all pointy teeth, make for dull, screaming villains.

June 18, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter

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Lucius Gore

ESplatter

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.

April 9, 2008 Comment

Rossiter Drake

San Francisco Examiner

Frankly, after you've seen one writhing, orgiastic vampire feeding, you've seen them all.

April 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine

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Tim Cogshell

Boxoffice Magazine

Although the middle section of the movie version has an intense claustrophobia that's compelling, it's weighed down by a lethally dull opening half-hour and an absurd finale.

March 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Giant Magazine

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Ethan Alter

Giant Magazine

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Not bad vamp flick, not really scary or spooky but very bloody and gory. The story and location is slightly original and it looks good, very slick but it kinda reminds me of 'AvP'. The vamps aren't really like traditional vamps more like aliens or creatures and not really effective for me, without their spooky romantic

November 2, 2007

Phil Hubbard

Super Reviewer

If you could ever recommend any decent vampire films, that are full of scares; then 30 Days Of Night is by far the best suggestion you could ever get. Full of decent scares, suspense and violence, this is by far the greatest vampire film to date!

November 21, 2011