5punk

Just watched this, despite Josh Hartnett who generally brings about the demise of a film in my eyes, it was quite good.

Alaskan town, sun goes down for a month, vampires arrive and start eating everyone. A few survivors including the local sheriff (Hartnett) survive the intial slaughter and creep from house to house under cover of whiteouts and suicidal diversions. In the end the sheriff takes drastic steps to finish the vamps.

It doesn't really show the unending fear that 30 days of hellish slaughter and a continual trickle of deaths should bring, it makes light of it in places which may appeal to some, but I wanted gritty fear and desperation.

Camerawork is good, acting on the whole is good by the leads. There's a few generic types, scared man with lost family=wanting to get killed all the time/redneck killing machine meets untimely end etc etc. But generally it's well acted.

Lighting, screenplay etc all good too. Scripting is good, lots of significant looks and off screen obviousness instead of pointless dialogue.

6/10

A more unending heart wrenching horror feel would have made it great, but it's good to watch then forget.

I thought this looked quite good when I saw the first trailers, but I too was put off by the presence of Josh "mumbles" Harnett.

May give it a sweep though.

Sounds oddly similar to the plot of Pitch Black.

ProfHawking wrote:Sounds oddly similar to the plot of Pitch Black.

indeed. this one doesn't seem to have ego petrol though, wich is good.