Guess who's coming to dinner

Rating: Null/10 (23 February 2012)

Despite an atmospheric setting – a small Alaskan town which suffers months of darkness – many poorly directed action/horror sequences and generic character interactions impair "30 Days of Night", a horror movie which sees Josh Hartnett playing a small town sheriff struggling to cope with a marauding gang of vampires.
The vampires here are more violent than is typical of the genre, and director David Slade does well to give them their own language (subtitles explain their bizarre speeches), but the film's peek-a-boo moments, shocks and horrors are all schematic. You want the film to slow down and allow you to savour its sets, towns and frosty tundras, but Slade is preoccupied with second rate thrills. See "Stake Land", "Carriers", "Daybreakers", "Zombieland", "Mist", "The Happening", "The Thing" and Romero's zombie movies instead.
6/10 – Worth one viewing.