stupidest vampires attack stupidest people on the planet

Rating: 3/10 (31 March 2008)

read the graphic novel and liked it, so could they do the same on screen?
well, not really. its a very average movie, slow and really one dimensional story with vampires looking for people in a town to eat. the people hide, and get picked off one by one, but lack of suspense or any horror made me drift off time and time again. someone gets grabbed every so often, then its jumps to 3 days later...and so on.
its not as extreme as the novel, and it suffers for this. vampires don't really look big or scary(actually they look like nerds), and don't do much except stand around talking bout what they're gonna do, like every other vampire movie! yep, its way too arty, and the story really needed to be developed and made thicker. thats where the novel suffered too. the premise wasn't enough to carry it for film length.
why the people are so stupid in this film? people driving into one another in dangerous machinery even before vampires attack, and vampires who are dumb-asses couldn't work out how to pis* in the desert (at night). spoiler: the townsfolk are stupid, and don't try crosses, mirrors garlic cos the cold has frozen their tiny minds. they could at least have tried throwing penguins..
some nice splatter of heads etc which horror fans will over-rate and tell you its a must-see, but its a disappointing version of what could of been.
the film left me with the following Q's'.
1.why did the vampires all dress like civil servants in suits? and
2.why did they eat people like you would tickle a baby's' neck? 3. is the Alaskan population the stupidest on the planet? are the Alaskans' the new Irish?