The idiot's vampire film. Please avoid it.

Rating: 2/10 (20 October 2007)

I'll try to be as vague as I can, but I felt it was necessary to write that this may contain spoilers of one kind or another. But if you do not want to read further, my point is basically that this is a film in which almost nothing stands up to the least bit of logical thought, even with the suspension of disbelief.
Like many of you, I was lured to watch this film with the hope that it would be as entertaining as other films based on graphics novels like "Sin City" and "300." It seemed like a sure thing, giving the shaky-camera treatment to a twist on the vampire story. But something went horribly wrong along the way.
We begin with the town of Barrow, Alaska, closing down for a 30-day period in which there is no sun. Skip forward a bit, and we've got a town under siege by perhaps the most pathetic group of vampires since those in the original "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Don't get me wrong, they rate fairly high when it comes to freaky appearance. But we've got a town that, because of an exodus during the season, is down to 152 people. From here, we basically go to the same premise as every zombie movie ever made: A small group of survivors has to avoid capture, death, or a fate worse than both. The clock is ticking at 30 days because the sun will rise again after that stretch.
NOW, there seem to be a few dozen vampires. And they know they have 30 days to feast. So they proceed to pretty much exhaust the entire food supply on the first day, then have a HECK of a time finding the survivors over the next month in a town of about 40 buildings. This attempt is made even more difficult by the fact that, with their superior physical abilities and numbers, the vampires still choose to hide and lurk about, rather than systematically checking every building in town in groups.
There is some dialog on the part of the vampires, but it's generally nonsensical and doesn't really tell you anything. I'm not even sure more than one vampire ever speaks. In fact, you don't learn anything about the vampires, other than they don't manage to clean themselves up during the entire 30-day period. And as much as they enjoy the killing, once they seem to be seriously low on food (lets say, the last 29 days), there really is never any indication that they or the people trying to elude them are ever actually hungry. This being the case, you're kind of left wondering why they are attacking the town to begin with.
Ultimately, this basically is like "The Blair Witch Project" in one important way: Once you begin to think about it in the least, it suddenly becomes incredibly stupid. And style doesn't compensate the viewer for the lack of substance. Avoid this flick at all costs.