Humorous to the Desensitized

Rating: 6/10 (17 October 2007)

This movie centers around senseless violence with little character attachment, which means if you've seen any horror movies in the last two decades is not very new.
BUT This movie was interesting for three main reasons.
1) The violence is excessive, funny, and usually the best parts of the movie (in that Bruce Cambell kind of way).
2) There's no boring/forced emotional moments like 90% of Hollywood movies. It avoided cliché by seeming like its about to have this big emotional and moral moment after someone gets killed or the main characters bad relationship gets brought up. But then it cuts right back to the horror and violence. Right then, you could hear the audience let out a sigh, clearly bored of THAT formula.
3) The settings and premise. The town looks great and being completely cut off from the world with 30 days of no sunshine adds a great atmosphere and tension.
As for the actors, its the standard Hollywood mix. I found Josh to be decent (nothing special) and his ex-girlfriend was annoying and unattractive.
Besides that the movie has the standard mindless filler actors who do the really obvious stupid ideas like yelling in the streets.
To get right to the point, you'll get a good laugh and it's above average for its genre. Would I pay to see it again? Probably not but I'm happy I got free tickets to see a private screening.