30 days of Night....

Rating: 8/10 (20 November 2007)

In the last few years (98-07) there has been many vampire/horror movies released such as Blade. These movies tend to come off cheesy or lame. Recently I had to the chance to see "30 days of Night" and personally wasn't expecting a great deal, the only favorable thing about the film was that it was produced by Sam Raimi.
The film is set in Barrow, Alaska where we are introduced to the town's sheriff, Evan. A simple act of vandalism (burnt cellphones) makes them question who would have done a thing like this.
The film than proceeds onto explain that there is one flight leaving and no more flights for 30 whole days. For these 30 whole days, Barrow is in complete darkness.
A stranger is caught and imprisoned with the help of Stella. The stranger warns them all that they are not safe, while at this time the power gos out and the vampires come to town.
The film is of a high standard, a very good horror flick, an O.K story, good acting (Josh Hartnett was actually good in this film, I was surprised.) good film shots and techniques. Brilliant sound effects, people who are easily scared beware.
So what brings the film down in the end? The ending, It was woeful! This movie deserved to be finished off better! I was confused why they would go to superb to crap in an instance. But with the ending aside the film is excellent I enjoyed and all you horror fans are in for a treat this year.