It's Barrow, Alaska, where are all the Eskimos?!

Rating: 7/10 (20 October 2007)

Overall, I thought this movie was entertaining. The pace was good, and the action certainly kept my interest. Watch for the fly-over scene of the carnage through the town when the vampire attack gets into full swing. That shot is the best thing in the movie. The vampires were creepy enough, but what's with the same, tired long black trench coats? Thank goodness the dialog was kept to a minimum. As an aside, my friend who is a native of Barrow says they captured the look of the town pretty well. But we were all wondering where all the natives went to? Barrow is mostly populated by Native Alaskans. Did they all get some psychic signal (because all native peoples are psychic, you know). Maybe the "shaman" told them that the blood-sucking (insert made-up Eskimo word here) were back and they should hide on the ice in their igloos, eating seals and swapping wives until the vampires are gone? Oh but that would be racist, so lets just pretend that Native Alaskans don't really live there, because that's not racist at all. The writers obviously didn't think of Alaska as anything more than a backdrop. Aside from the no-bright-light thing, this could have taken place in any small rural (white) town that gets a hefty amount of snow. I really would have liked to see a bit more effort from the writers.