Rather good, bloody vampire movie...though not without its flaws.

Rating: 7/10 (4 March 2008)

For the most part I enjoyed this movie, however, I thought it could have been better too. The story has a the town of Barrow, Alaska about to go into its yearly ritual of 30 days of night. A time when the sun doesn't come. However, this year things are going to be particularly bad as a group of vampires are coming to town for a thirty day feeding frenzy. Let's just say that they do not take to long making their presence known as they begin slaughtering the citizens soon after sundown. I was thinking at this point they should be thinking about pacing themselves because unlike the real Barrow, Alaska where I think there are quite a few people this one is limited to like 150 people during the dark month. Soon we are left with the sheriff and a few survivors doing what they can to avoid being on the menu. Lot's of blood as to be expected and for the most part it is pretty good. Still, in places the camera work and editing make the movie seem rather choppy and I had a rather hard time telling what was going on. The vampires were not distinct enough for me and for some reason spoke in a foreign language which I found rather unnecessary. Also, I doubt if anyone else thought this, but I kept thinking the way the movie was setup was a bit familiar. It reminded me of the Australian or New Zealand zombie flick "The Undead". I mean we have the initial stage of chaos, survivors finding rather good shelter (here in an attic, in that movie a fallout shelter), a town isolated, and even a scene in a local store where our troops gather supplies and run across another creature. Of course, that movie was funny while this one is almost completely devoid of humor. Still though, it is a nice little horror movie with a great concept...just needed a little work here and there.