If You Can't Beat 'Em, Then, Hey, Why Not Join 'Em (?)

Rating: 6/10 (27 July 2014)

If you're seriously looking for a ferocious, modern-day vampire story that contains no glamour, just gore, then 30 Days Of Night just might be more than enough to satisfy your hunger and quench your thirst.
Set in far-off Barrow, Alaska (during their winter's month-long polar-night), a voracious troupe of no-name vampires unceremoniously waltz into town and immediately engage in a brutal, non-stop feeding frenzy where Barrow's terrified citizens are the #1 choice on the menu.
(Get the picture?)
Even though this $30 million horror story was noticeably over-long at 152 minutes, its pace rarely seemed to lag and its blood-splattered gore and hideous make-up effects were, without question, first-rate.
One problem with 30 Days' story was that no background was given on this particular pack of hissing, screeching bloodsuckers. Without being clued into their origins, one is left wondering exactly how old they are and how they've managed to survive up to this point.
'Cause if these vampires actually operate the same way, as they did in Barrow, with such a lack of caution everywhere they go, then one couldn't imagine that they could continue to survive for very long at that recklessly rabid rate.
Even though 30 Days did deliver a pretty gruesome story of hide'n'seek, it inevitably lost itself some significant points for its blatant product placement of Pepsi and Oreo cookies.