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starring: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster, Mark Rendalldirected by: David Slade
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396196155
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 4144
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Product Description:
Josh Harnett (Black Dahlia, Pearl Harbor) crosses over to the dark side in this bone-chilling adaptation of the cult-hit graphic novel, brought to the screen in all its demonic glory. In a small Alaskan town, thirty days of night is a natural phenomenon. Very few outsiders visit, until a band of bloodthirsty, deathly pale vampires mark their arrival by savagely attacking sled dogs. But soon they find there are much more satisfying thirst-quenchers about: human beings. One by one, the townspeople succumb to a living nightmare, but a small group survives - at least for now. The vampires use the dark to their advantage, and surviving this cold hell is a game of cat and mouse - and screams.
Amazon.com:
David (Hard Candy) Slade directs this nerve-jangling adaptation of the popular graphic novel series about a mob of vampires that overruns a remote Alaskan town in the grip of 30 Days of Night. Josh Hartnett and Melissa George are the film's de facto heroes (he's the stoic town sheriff and she's his estranged fire-marshal wife) but the picture's real MVP is Slade's camera (along with cinematographer Jo Willems), which careens across the town's snowy landscape to detail the vampires' horrific assault on its inhabitants, which are quickly pared down to a hardy few. The script, co-written by the source material's creator, Steve Niles, along with Pirates of the Caribbean's Stuart Beattie and Hard Candy's Brian Nelson), proudly wears its influences on its crimson-stained sleeve (Bram Stoker's Dracula, natch, but also Salem's Lot, Night of the Living Dead, and John Carpenter's version of The Thing) and boils down the graphic novels to a series of tense and extremely bloody standoffs between Harnett and George's band of survivors and the vaguely Slavic and ferocious bloodsuckers led by Marlow (a feral and frightening Danny Huston). And if the characters seem stock and the finale begs suspension of disbelief, the set pieces leading up to it are sufficiently supercharged with suspense and violence to please most horror fans. Standouts in the supporting cast are Ben Foster as the film's Renfield figure and Mark Boone Junior; the disturbing score by Brian Reitzell also merits a mention. --Paul Gaita
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Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Eh!
The blood and viscious kills were awesome. The "caring" 1/2 human 1/2 vampire...and the stupid love story (ending) "killed" it!
Rating: - movie purchase
I cannot give a legitimate review of this purchase because as of yet it has yet to be completed to my satisfaction.
Rating:  - Flawed movie, but with an interesting take on vampires
This is not a movie without its problems. AS far as suspension of disbelief goes, the movie takes some real liberties with the town of Barrow, Alaska, which in reality is both larger, and not nearly so isolated during the long dark period it endures every year. The movie is not without its cliches, and the pacing is uneven, but one thing about this movie makes up for a lot of that, and that is this film's portrayal of vampires.
Ever since Polidori's novel "The Vampyre" was published ... Read More
Rating:  - A Far Cry From "True Blood"
Lately I've been watching the new series on HBO about Vampires that's titled "True Blood." Those Vampires have been welcomed as members of society since they can survive on an artificial blood formula. Those Vampires can get a little nasty, but in general they're not bad people, for being the walking dead.
The vampires in this movie really come across as the monsters that they are. And even though the movie isn't as scary as your general slasher genre it does make the vampires seem ... Read More
Rating: - 30 Days Of Night, Another in a string of hollywood mishaps
30 Days of night is what Vampires should be. Not Since John Carpenters Vampires, has the world seen a non sexual side of a truly predatorial beast. Vampires may be romantic to some but essentially there are presonalities and clans such as this film. The vampires here are murderous pigs loose in a 30 day buffet.... I enjoyed every minute of it... until....
the pointless flawed ending. Seriosly folks, they believe we dont' notice this type of mistake in a film and shamlessly release it. ... Read More
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