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I'm not a big fan of the comic...the premise was better than the story..to me at least
 

Readers Review: 30 Days of Night

Trustworthy Reader “Pendejo Joe” got a chance to attend the first test screening for the upcoming horror film, "30 Days of Night,” which the trailer just debuted over the weekend.

The film is set in the isolated town of Barrow, Alaska, in the extreme northern hemisphere, which is plunged into complete darkness annually for an entire month. When most of the inhabitants head south for the winter, a mysterious group of strangers appear: bloodthirsty vampires, ready to take advantage of the uninterrupted darkness to feed on the town's residents. As the night wears on, Barrow's Sheriff Eben (Josh Hartnett), his estranged wife Stella (Melissa George), and an ever-shrinking group of survivors must do anything they can to last until daylight.

Here is what “Pendejo Joe” had to say about the film:

Long time reader, love the site, checked out a test screening here recently...

Let me preface this by saying that I am not a comic book junkie, and while I’d heard of 30 DAYS OF NIGHT as a property, I’d never read it. I was, however, curious to seed director David Slade’s followup film to the small but oddly arresting HARD CANDY. Would he be able to translate the characters from his first effort into elevating a vampire film? Would he be able to pull off the action scenes, where HARD CANDY had none? Would he be able to get a respectable performance out of Josh Hartnett, whose yet to show why he’s a known actor? The answer, unfortunately, is a resounding no.

The film is told through the trailer which has now hit the internet. The premise is really nothing more, nothing less than you see in those two minutes. The “nothing more” is where the problem lies. A group of people living in Alaska get ambushed when the eponymous “thirty days of night” begin and they stay behind in their small town, unaware of what will be waiting for them when the sun goes down. Our leads, Eben (Josh Hartnett) and Stella (Melissa George who does look mighty fine) are a couple with a rocky marriage, oddly enough both cops in the town. Ben Foster, who’s overdoing it with the over-the-top character roles and needs to choose something to do straight, appears and warns them of what’s coming – but his psychotic states causes the police to throw him in the cell. At this point I’m asking myself … okay where’s the catch here? Vampires attacking a group of people…seen that. Are they going to play up the fact that they have to survive for thirty entire days, making survival in the cold a big part of the movie and thus giving it a unique twist? Nope. Are the vampires going to be somehow unique, are they going to have some cool new element that raises the bar from the stale premise. Nope.

In fact, in light of films like BLADE and 28 DAYS LATER – 30 DAYS OF NIGHT FEELS like it should’ve been done ten years ago. What follows after Ben Foster shows up is the plethora of clichés – the group holes up in a the attic of a house and fights among themselves as to how best survive – one of them tries to leave and almost gives their position up – they have to make their way to a store to try gather material and sure enough they are attacked. The vampires themselves look like clones from the Blade TV series. The camera works is sloppy, the acting stale (Josh Hartnett I hope to God the next few prove me wrong) and ultimately the film feels like an attempt to mine the title, which oddly enough is not explored in its eponymous promise – that the film is NOT just going to be another vampire flick but one which tests its characters survival or thirty long days. I can’t help but thing it was a result of the director going from a tiny, character-based film with great actors to an action/horror movie. Maybe the leap was too much to make – he should’ve tried something smaller in between.

In the end, to say I was disappointed would be an understatement. I pray to God that the upcoming I AM LEGEND, which promises to have a similar premise, brings something new to this genre which is growing stale.

If you use this - call me Pendejo Joe

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Well, the review was very disheartening. Hopefully it will be better then Pendejo Joe is actually saying.
 

Review: 30 Days of Night

Hi all, I just got back from the "30 Days of Night" screening at Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, California (7:00pm Pacific, 6/6/07). We were the FIRST audience in the country to see the movie. Security was tight and the theatre was packed with producers (bad luck...no actors showed up).

Run Time: 7:05 pm - 8:50 pm (~1:45 excluding intro and end credits)

First impressions: I've never read the graphic novels, but I must say this movie was amazing!!! I was expecting the movie to have a "Sin City" or "300" look, but it was completely different. I must say the movie was very, very violent. One scene shows Josh Hartnett's character chopping off a vampire's head (I mean completely cutting it off from start to finish). The story was very linear, no flashbacks of any sort. The characters are quickly introduced and then the action starts immediately. From start to finish, this movie was filled with action (mostly vampires slaughtering humans). Again, I must emphasize that the violence is not lacking whatsoever. The only negative aspect was that the editing of the film was not complete, so some parts were kinda confusing since we didn't understand how certain characters got from one place from another (I'm sure it'll be fixed later on since it was an obvious flaw). Another aspect which I wish the director would have explained was the origins of the vampires and why/how they chose this town in Alaska (maybe I need to read the graphic novels). The ending was very satisfying and not cheesy/unbelievable (although there was some green screens in the end which need special effects added). I give this movie 8.5 stars out of 10.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0389722/board/thread/76278383
 
this movie looks awesome. and this is coming from a guy who is not too keen on many Vampire flicks.
 
'30 Days of Night' Sequel Talk? Well, DUH

According to a scooper at Cinemablend there are already talks in progress for a sequel to Columbia Pictures' 30 Days of Night. Our response to this is "duh". Every studio wants their films to become a franchise and many talk about how they can lead the film into a sequel if the first is a success. Awesome story. David Slade's adaptation of the Steve Niles comic, 30 Days of Night, hits theaters October 19. When Alaska goes dark for 30 straight days, vampires come out to feast... and if enough people watch them dine, you'll see a sequel.
 
What's that song they use at the end of the trailer?
 
EXCL: Josh Hartnett on 30 Days of Night

San Diego Comic-Con is only a few days away and one of the big movies that's going to be featured there is the Sam Raimi produced 30 Days of Night, based on the horror comic by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith about an Alaskan town attacked by bloodthirsty vampires just as they hit the "dark season." The movie stars Josh Hartnett as the town's sheriff Eben Olemaun, and when Harnett was in New York to do interviews for the Rod Lurie boxing drama Resurrecting the Champ, ComingSoon.net's ShockTillYouDrop.com had a chance to ask him a couple questions about his first foray into the horror genre with this vampire flick.

We first asked the most obvious question, which was why he wanted to do the movie, considering that except for his small part in Frank Miller's Sin City, he had not really done any genre films. "Well, because it's a vampire movie, and I just think that vampire movies are incredible," he told us. "I've always been kind of fascinated with it, and I read the comic book and loved it. It's not like it's just all running and screaming. It's actually quite a difficult character piece. It's all about trying to find your way into a headspace where you can actually sacrifice yourself or someone you love. It was a good dramatic movie actually when it comes down to it, 'cause there were just so many scenes of people sitting in a room, huddled and starting to lose it because they've been hiding for so long. It's good. I liked it a lot, and I had a great time."

Hartnett said that having seen David Slade's previous movie Hard Candy also played a part in his decision to do the movie, and he talked a bit about the set they built down in New Zealand for the movie. "Actually, we basically had the entire town. Because of the conversion rate and because people there are still interested in working on films even if they're not getting paid a ton of money, they made this entire town look completely real so we can shoot from all angles. It was a town that they built on a field, and then we also went to this snow park down in Wanaka that was in the middle of summer here but winter there, and shot a lot of the outdoor stuff."

We were also interested to know how the movie was going to look compared to the very distinctive art style of the comic book, to which he replied, "There's a little bit of difference because it's really hard to replicate Ben Templesmith's art which has this Ralph Steadman sort of look. There's something about it that's so grotesque and exaggerated and oddly beautiful that you can't replicate, but there are certain elements of it."

Hartnett didn't think his character would appear in a sequel if it ever happened, partially for reasons that might be obvious to those who've read the comic book, although if you've read its sequel "Dark Days," you might think otherwise. Maybe he just didn't want to spoil the fun for those experiencing the story for the first time when seeing the movie, but one can expect we'll find out a lot more about a possible sequel in our coverage of the movie from Comic-Con where the movie has a presentation on Saturday afternoon.

30 Days of Night opens on October 19.
 
this movie looks incredible, and ive heard its screening very well. be seein this in the theaters...
 
I watched the trailer last night on "Trailers on Demand". Needless to say I was impressed by the darker visuals and the gritty nature of it. More than likely I'll be checking this one out when it comes out.

Is this the year of vampire films? We have this one coming out and I Am Legend coming out this year as well. :up: :up:
 
FEARnet Sees Blood Trails

As Steve Niles' original story has done, Sony's forthcoming 30 Days of Night - directed by Hard Candy's David Slade - is spawning a mini-series struck from the film's unforgiving vampire-infected world.

On-demand horror site FEARnet is partnering with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert's Ghost House Pictures to air 30 Days of Night: Blood Trails.

Cut from a miniscule subplot in the original Niles tale and expanded, "Blood Trails,"follows George, a young addict who makes a living seeking covert information for the weary but wise vampire hunter Judith. Ready for change, George plans to score one final job so he can leave town – but finds the road to salvation quickly crumbling when his contacts start turning up dead. Now George must dodge vampires while navigating the harsh underbelly of New Orleans to get his last payday and make it out alive.

Victor Garcia (Return to House on Haunted Hill) will direct, as previously reported, seven 3 - 5 minute episodes based on a script by Ben Ketai. The first chapter airs on FEARnet Thursday, September 13th.

"We've seen the digital space grow exponentially in the last few years and FEARnet presents us with another great opportunity to expand our goal in providing original content to the horror community," says Ghost House's Rob Tapert in a press release. "'30 Days of Night' is a huge theatrical release for us and a graphic novel series that has a tremendous fan base. To be able to provide these core fans and horror lovers alike with a chance to get even deeper into this Vampire world through the 'Blood Trails' mini-series is truly exciting for us."
 
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