one of my favorite vampire movies

Rating: 7/10 (8 April 2010)

I have never been a huge fan of vampire movies, most are too vanilla in the gore. I have liked a few throughout the years and wasn't expecting much with this one but it turned out to be a favorite of mine.
In Alaska there is 30 days of darkness and in the town of Barow, many of the towns people flee and it is a small isolated and very dark place for 30 days. When a gang of vampires find this town they set out to kill people one by one.
This film was shot in New Zealand, not Alaska and director David Slade did a wonderful job. I am not familiar with any of his work, except music videos and Hard Candy, all of which he did a great job on. Slade is currently working on the new Twilight:Eclipse movie. Sam Raimi was the first one on board to direct and I would've loved to see that, but he decided to just produce the film instead. David had some great shots and the sets were great, often using C.G.I. and lots of fake snow, but still did the job. Steve Niles wrote the story and shopped it around many times and got numerous doors slammed in his face at the movie studios. He eventually turned this into a comic book, then it was picked up for a movie. He had the screenplay written and not a whole lot was changed.
Acting wise most were pretty good. Josh Hartnett is too young for me to take serious as a town sheriff, but he was okay. Ben foster is a perfect actor to me and always takes a part and becomes the guy he's playing. Mark Boone Junior is another guy who often plays a bad guy, or someone your not suppose to like character wise, and he amazes me.
The vampires in this movie were absolutely perfect.. I loved the vampires, they were so pale, with jet black eyes, big teeth, and did these cool screams all of the time. The language they used was entirely made up for this film. These guys were cool vampires.
I really liked this movie, it made my 3rd time watching it and I could watch it again and enjoy it..highly recommended.