30 Days of Night (8/10)

Rating: 8/10 (29 August 2015)

David Slade directs a grisly vampire tale about the town of Barrow, Alaska being under siege by a group of vampires. Slade holds nothing back when showing the carnage of vampires feasting on townspeople and the writers weren't shy about writing who dies either. Inspired by a graphic novel, 30 Days of Night has appeared to turn the vampire genre into a darker more sinister approach. The film is great in the fact that it has times of suspenseful tense dialogue and moments of complete chaos. The Russian vampires are greatly barbaric and having a strong frightening screen presence. The cold blistery atmosphere was a great setting and created the sense of complete hopelessness being stranded. Characters and acting seemed to be more on the weaker side, nothing terrible, but they rode the line of mediocrity. From that one negative setback 30 Days of Night is still one of the better movies of the late 2000's and a good purchase for any gore/horror fanatic.