We watched this film in a very special occasion and hearing that this was a good film from friends, I gulped my own nervous breakdowns. I have to tell you that I am quite biased in watching horror films involving vampires, werewolves and zombies. I particularly like zombies but wasn’t fond of Resident Evil but during my childhood, we had our own VHS tape of a popular zombie film that came on a remake recently where the undead are not only walking but running, jumping and good thing, not flying.
Going back to the film, I couldn’t stand it. I was having a heart attack the whole time. It was a vampire feast that I wasn’t expecting. Imagine a town having no sunlight for 30 days and here comes a hundred year old legend of ancient vampires who trashes the whole town from a number of 152 residents into dust. To think that the vampires came in numbers, it was a ratio of 1:15 of loots for the blood seekers.
The vampires had set out a plan by cutting communications, flight opportunities, and power lines (even generators) that led to a closed walled town for 30 days. The slaughter began on that first night where a group of survivors manages to secure a vacated house attic. The survivors took turns in their sleep, travelled through blizzard storms to get supplies, and have to calm themselves of their fear on what goes beyond their roof.
The scenes also tells us of an ended relationship of Eben Oleson, who is Barrow’s town sheriff, with Stella Oleson, a woman firefighter currently stationed in another town who happens to be in that town before the vampire attacks.
Hearing more positive remarks on the film from a circle of friends, we’d like to confirm our support by giving it:
Rating: 8 hippopotamus out of 10
Tags: 30 Days of Night, Josh Hartnett, Steve Niles, David Slade, Sam Raimi, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster, Mark Boone, Mark Rendall, Dark Days