Halloween Movie Review: 30 Days of Night

[zenithblue]

30 Days of Night, like many quality horror movies, is not a horror movie so much as a survival movie. This is a trope more often found in zombie films, like Night of the Living Dead and 28 Days Later, than in vamp flicks: the humans must band together to fight the outside menace, usually hiding out in microcosms like isolated farmhouses or malls.

Comments

[helpimarock]

Good review, man. The way you describe it, it makes me wonder if the movie's writers were into reality shows b/c I get this impression that the way the non-vampires are whittled down duplicates that same anticipation. That popped into my head when I first read this and then I read a few other reviews and saw it there too and decided to mention it.

Also, without getting into spoilers, does the movie get into the origins of these particular vampires? I'm curious b/c I have an idea for a story stowed away and some things I saw in the previews made me wonder if someone else had come up with the same idea.

[zenithblue]

Nope, it doesn't go into their origins at all. I've heard the graphic novel it's based on does a little bit, but I haven't read it yet.

[blozor]

I just watched it last night, and I think I patched one of your plot holes."We keep our oil up there; you think no one would notice the town's shut down?"
Apparently, most of the town's population leaves for the 30 days leaving nothing but a skeleton crew, enough to keep the town operational. That would mean all production would be halted for that period, and there's a good chance the rest of the country knows this and wouldn't really bother them unless they radioed for assistance. Once that 30 days is up, they'd discover the massacre and be left to piece together what went wrong.

[zenithblue]

It's true, and I guess they do touch on that in the movie...I just think that someone would be paying attention to the town that's the crutch of 99.9999% of the state's economy, but I'm willing to let it go.