30 Days without a story

Rating: 1/10 (19 July 2011)

Sorry, just doesn't work for me.
Primarily, the lead human characters just are unappealing and frankly a little dumb. The Sheriff at one point finds someone he knows turning into a vampire and first he wants to reason with him? Huh? The drifter is a kind of interesting character, but no real use is made of him. The vampires let him live at one point and then they come back and - kill him. Why did they let him live? Why did they kill him? What was his purpose in being? Apparently he was some sort of vampire-slave, but there's no telling how that came about.
In fact there are only three type of human characters in the film, the dumb, the underused, and the screaming. There's a lot of screaming in this film.
Admittedly the camera-work and editing are quite good. But without believable, appealing characters, there's no real story here. Suddenly vampires attack! Scream! Blood everywhere! Roll credits.
Actually, I admit I didn't get to the credits. With no story to follow, my mind started wandering until at last it... fell asleep.
(Yawn.)