30 Days of Night
This film should really be called “30 Days of Extremely Bright Moonlight”.
Basically, vampire versions of Neil Tennant and David Walliams terrorise the small Alaskan town of Barrow. Of course, when I say” terrorise” I really mean “eat”.
The fella from 3:10 to Yuma is in it (his character is probably the creepiest in the film) and there’s a few jumpy moments, but it goes on a bit too long and it is a smidge difficult to get too scared when all you can think is that the main bad dude looks like a demented Pet Shop Boys singer. Hey-ho. 6/10.
[edit] I was also wondering in a slightly geeky way… since moonlight is just sunlight reflected off the moon, why is it that vampires don’t burn up?
Well apparently (after a bit of Googling), moonlight is about a million times fainter than sunlight, so the vampire killing UltraViolet light in moonlight would also be about a million times less than sunlight.
So if my calculations are right… that’d mean 30 days of full moonlight is equivalent to about 2.59 seconds of direct sunlight. In UV light terms, a vampire wearing a decent factor 50 sunblock would only expose himself to about 51.8 milliseconds of UV then. Plus if he wore a hat… [/edit]
November 12th, 2007 at 7:42 am
the dude on the left kinda looks like he’s bending down to search for his glasses. speaking of bending… i love the character bender from futurama, speaking of which their bringing back for 2 eps i think… speaking of which i really wish they’d also bring back Huff, Firefly & Dead Like Me.. speaking of which i love fireflies… who couldn’t like something with a glowing arse? speaking of which its quite fun to poke holes in glow sticks & splatter your walls….
November 12th, 2007 at 7:45 am
oops i meant they’re… not their
November 12th, 2007 at 11:28 am
I enjoyed the film though think it could have been a lot better if, as Andy pointed out, the vampires hadn’t sounded like dolphins on crack. Sound it just as important as visuals and while the vampires looked pretty darn scary when they were ripping the town to bits but were just cringe worthy when ever they spoke.
Personally I thought the best vampire in the whole thing was the little girl. Having her speak english eliminated the silly sound aspect and having her be so young yet so dangerous made her much more scary.
If you could redo it I would have the vampires speak either english or at least a real language and make them sound more like lions or wild dogs than dolphins.
Had so great exploding head shots though which always make me laugh and the tracking shot over the town at the vampires killed everyone was rather cool.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Random as ever Tiamat! ;-) Never seen Huff, Dead Like Me or Firefly. I heard something about Futurama coming back… Isn’t it going to be a straight-to-dvd thing though?
Andrew, yeah the overhead tracking bit was cool. Reminded me a bit of the Dawn of the Dead remake a few years back. Actually, didn’t that have a little (zombified) girl in it too? Hmmm…