30 Days of Night (2007)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 156
Fresh: 79 | Rotten: 77
While 30 Days of Night offers a few thrills, it ultimately succumbs to erratic execution.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 18
While 30 Days of Night offers a few thrills, it ultimately succumbs to erratic execution.
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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
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Feels derivative of 28 Days Later.
Top CriticA frustrating mix of imaginative design, erratic plotting and underwritten characters.
The problem is structural. After the invasion, we're marooned with the dull survivors.
A terrific horror premise goes begging in the garbled Halloween offering 30 Days of Night.
It has a fairly original premise and some blood-curdling moments, but it's also predictable, repetitive and vile.
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?).
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.
These 30 Days feel like an eternity
Scrapping many of the undead cliches and aided by troublingly realistic special effects, Slade has crafted one hell of a monster movie.
About as scary as Count Chocula.
Not bad, but let's just say the movie could have used a tad more intentional humor.
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.
Frankly, after you've seen one writhing, orgiastic vampire feeding, you've seen them all.
This isn't my favourite genre, but it's evident that the film delivers all the requisite elements for fans itching to sit through decapitations, body ripping and blood-soaked, tooth gnashing devourings directed in as fresh a way as is possible.
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.
The coolest vampire movie since Near Dark.
30 Days of Night reinvents the vampire movie, but only with its novel premise.
It certainly does entertain, particularly for those who consider a man chopping off the head of one of his friends...entertaining. Twice!
Concept: excellent. Setup: intriguing. Execution: well... too many interesting ideas bungled.
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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
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My expectations for this graphic novel adaptation were considerably high for a couple reasons. Firstly the director of 30 Days of Night is the very talented David Slade. He gained recognition for directing the deeply intelligent, extremely tense, incredibly edgy and profoundly atmospheric "Hard Candy" which boasted both suspense and character development. It was one of the most terrifying films I had ever seen. When you put him and vampires together, it's a formula for success. This film has a number of thrills, a beautiful visual style and decent acting. Especially Danny Huston who is fantastic as the head vampire. But in small chunks between the thrills it felt to me a little bit dull, and in it's entirety despite a few jumps I was never actually scared watching it at all. Mellisa George in her supporting role is rubbish, I expected more from her, but it's the weak script that doesn't give her much to do at all, she does what she can with the material she's given, but it never feels like she's really there. But positively on the other hand, I am a gorehound, and if you love watching Josh Hartnett chop vampire's heads of with axes and slasher horror with an artistic quality to it, you'll enjoy it probably as much as I did. Because there's a lot of brilliant, unrestrained, nasty kills that you don't see often in mainstream horror movies anymore. Slade delivers on that level. He also gives us a true conclusion to the story, and not one last infantile shock that most modern horror movies always succumb to. It's definitely not the masterpiece some positive reviews have exaggerated, but I found it very entertaining nonetheless.