A well made stylish vampire flick

Rating: 10/10 (3 November 2007)

The main premise is simple once a year during the winter the sun disappears for 30 days in a remote isolated town in Alaska, and when the sun goes down the vampires come out and they are hellbent on causing chaos. But what you really have is a survival film, how are the townsfolk going to last for 30 days with such vicious vampires lurking just about everywhere?
Well director David Slade who made Hard Candy lays on the suspense and action with visual flair, so when the vampires do attack, a small group of survivors fight back, so for this type of movie to work, you have to have some inventive kills to keep the blood flowing and the adrenaline pumping, and you do get some nasty bloody kills to keep the horror fans happy. Neck's get ripped out, heads get cut off, vampires get shot left right and centre and even a kid vampire gets a gruesome demise, its all here in it's full bloody glory, the make up effects are very good. A special mention must go to Danny Huston as the head vampire, he embodies real menace and a genuine threat to the main players.
Well as vampire films go, you can put this up there with Near Dark, From Dusk Till Dawn and Interview With The Vampire. A solid horror survival action film that goes straight for the jugular!