Disturbing and scary vampire/zombie-like scarefest...

Rating: 6/10 (16 January 2009)

1st watched 1/15/2009, (Dir-David Slade): Disturbing and scary vampire/zombie-like scarefest about a foreign speaking group of bloody folks who overtake a town in Alaska during the 30 days of night experienced by this area during every winter. The small group left to fight or hide(really) from the predators all know each other, of course, because they live in a very small town. The sheriff, played by Josh Hartnett, is also the leader and makes the decisions necessary to survive. This type of movie definitely has been done before and in some ways it resembles "Night of the Living Dead" movies, except the vampire/zombies are more disgusting and speak(although it's in a foreign tongue  from what country we don't know). It's also similar to this movie in that the survivors realize that waiting things out is better than blasting the ghouls with a bunch of firepower. If they wait 30 days then the sun will come and burn them up and they're used to the winters around there so it shouldn't be that difficult, right?? Well it's not that easy and, of course, we get many opportunities to see the creatures suck the blood and devour their next victim. I guess the reason I liked this movie is because it does what it intended to do,, scare you!! The creatures aren't that smart --- for some reason they don't check the attics where the people are hiding out and they aren't that unique when it comes to movie creatures but they are scary. This one factor is really what measures these type of movies, so if you can handle the blood and gore, enjoy it!!