not recommended, even if you liked the comics

Rating: 3/10 (11 June 2008)

I enjoyed the comic because of Templesmith's illustrations and also because of Steve Niles' original idea of an Alaskan town hunted by vampires for 30days of endless night. After some not so good sequels to the original book, I really wanted to see the movie based on the first story, but maybe I expected too much from it and I had to realize that one thing is a graphic novel and another is a movie. The comic origins are evident both for the vampire look and for the Niles scrip. The settings is good and so are the visual effects, especially in the scene of a head chopped off. Some scenes, especially in the beginning are not so bad and scare. But as the plot goes on it turns in some nonsense. The weak point is the screenplay by Niles himself. Deplorable, illogical, sometime ridiculous. You spend almost all the time asking why all characters do just what they are not supposed to do. And the end is really stupid, an insult to anyone's intelligence. Besides I just don't like the recent way of filming horror and thriller with a fast editing and many confused close ups in the action scenes. I don't recommend this film, but if you are an horror fan or you liked the comics, you can see it with the risk of being disappointed at the end.