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61
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57
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57
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55
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55
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55
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54
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54
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53
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49
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48
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47
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44
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41
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37
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37
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37
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36
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36
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35
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34
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34
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33
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80
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79
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79
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78
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76
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75
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74
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74
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73
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72
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55
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30 Days of Night
Columbia Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong horror violence and language
Starring
Josh Hartnett,
Melissa George,
Ben Foster,
Danny Huston,
and
Manu Bennett
For 30 days every winter, the isolated town of Barrow, Alaska is plunged into a state of complete darkness. It's a bitter time when most of the inhabitants head south. This winter, a mysterious group of strangers appear: bloodthirsty vampires, ready to take advantage of the uninterrupted darkness to feed on the residents remaining in town. Barrow's Sheriff Eben, his estranged wife Stella, and an ever-shrinking group of survivors must do anything they can to last until daylight. (Columbia Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Horror
|
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Ben Templesmith (comic)
Steve Niles (comic)
Brian Nelson, Stuart Beattie
Steve Niles
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
David Slade
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 26, 2008
Theatrical: October 19, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
113 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
New Zealand / USA |

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80
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Decent vampire movies are few and far between, and I’m having a hard time remembering a recent one that impressed me like 30 Days of Night.

80
Empire
James Dyer
This slick and sticky horror is the most accomplished treatment of vampire lore since Near Dark.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Works on its own terms, which is more than can be said of most horror films these days. If this is the kind of movie you're looking for, it delivers.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tirdad Derakhshani
It's a bloodsucker's paradise.

75
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
It's not perfect or "Shining"-level inspired, but it's solid.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
A well-paced and entertaining horror debut.

75
USA Today
Scott Bowles
It loses some of its bite by film's end, but 30 Days of Night manages to do for the vampire genre what "28 Days Later" did for the zombie flick: give age-old monsters a modern-day makeover.

70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Directed by David Slade ("Hard Candy"), the action scenes are artful and terrifying; these killers move so quickly and decisively, there seems to be no hope for humanity.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
These days, it's dark everywhere. Which makes Slade's wild, often exhilarating neo-Western ride into frostbit vampirism something of a respite, albeit one awash gore.

67
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Which is more interesting: Vampires fighting over the potential long-term blowback of their Alaskan buffet, or a couple of exes bonding under duress? Seems like an easy decision, but 30 Days Of Night makes the wrong choice.

63
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Mark Boone Jr. makes a vivid impression as eccentric loner Beau Brower, and Danny Huston is mesmerizing as the leader of the shrieking, slashing, wallowing-in-gore bloodsuckers. They effortlessly eclipse the rest of the cast.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Like most kiddies games, this one starts out fun and then gets tired. Inevitably, that's when Slade tries to revive our interest by upping the gore quotient.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is well-made, well-photographed and plausibly acted, and is better than it needs to be.

63
Premiere
Eric Alt
It's all pulled off with a firm sense of the fun in being scared.

63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A proficient, atmospheric fangfest that does nothing you haven't seen before but still does it passably well.

63
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Based on a graphic novel, 30 Days of Night opens with a premise so promising it seems almost impossible to screw up.

60
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
Danny Huston is screamingly funny as the alternately finicky and savage Head Ghoul--he’s like something spewed forth from the bowels of the Politburo. The problem is structural.

58
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
It's seductive in its buildup but overall as subtle and, alas, as humorless as a hatchet to the brain.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Andy Spletzer
With such a good concept for a vampire movie, it's hard to believe it turned out to be this boring.

50
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Excels at bloodthirsty action, though dialogue and human-interest aspects are a tad anemic. Result is a mixed bag but has a catchy premise and quite enough splatter to satisfy gorehounds.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Nearly two hours long, 30 Days of Night makes you feel the cold (though it was shot in New Zealand) and feel the fangs, but it also makes you feel like 30 days is a pretty long time.

50
Village Voice
Robert Wilonsky
Director David Slade's stab at the story is actually rather ordinary.

50
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Forget about a stake through the heart: sheriff Josh Hartnett discovers that decapitation is the best way to stop the bloodsuckers, who suggest feral, steroid-crazed gymnasts as they scale buildings and leap onto moving vehicles.

40
Los Angeles Times
John Anderson
The movie thus moves from truly creepy to truly inane, which is, unfortunately, all too common in films of this ilk.

40
The Hollywood Reporter
Megan Lehmann
Dramatically, the film is a shambles, with whiplash-inducing lurches in tone and pacing that make it seem as if portions were edited out of sequence.

38
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Lighter on horror than it is on inadvertent humor.

30
The New York Times
Matt Zoller Seitz
The performers have little to do besides spill and drink blood in this tedious, inconsequential B picture. The sun doesn’t rise nearly fast enough.

25
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The movie approaches the final scene with a straight face, but it left the audience giggling spasmodically. This script probably should have gone all the way and thrown in a few quips: If your movie is a joke, at least be intentionally funny.

25
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
You can expect a lot of shredding and gurgling. 30 Days of Night is relentless, but it's also relentlessly one-note.


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