DVD Blu-Ray Movies Review

Columbia Pictures 30 Days Of Night (Blu-ray)
Josh Harnett ("Black Dahlia," "Pearl Harbor") crosses over to the dark side in this bone-chilling adaptation of the cult-hit graphic novel, brought to the screen in all its demonic glory. In a small Alaskan town, thirtydays of night is a natural phenomenon. Very few outsiders visit, until a band of bloodthirsty, deathly pale vampires mark their arrival by savagely attacking sled dogs. But soon they find there are much more satisfying thirst-quenchers about: human beings. One by one, the townspeople succumb to a living nightmare, but a small group survives - at least for now. The vampires use the dark to their advantage, and surviving this cold hell is a game of cat and mouse and screams.

Had a lot of potential...but
It started out well. It had a lot of promise. Reminds you of "The Thing." As one of the reviewers said, the bird's eyeview shots were great and the redness of the blood contrasted well with the snow...until the vampires showed themselves fully. In my case, that could be forgiven. Although Danny Houston ("Marlowe") could have used more make up. They had a lot of bald vampires which reminds you of Nosferatu or Mr. Barlow from Salem's lot. The girls made to walk on the snow as baits was pretty clever. The vampires standing on the roofs was pretty cool. However, Vampires are supposed to be afraid of fire. I could not understand why Marlowe started to burn the town. I thought it was the way to get Melissa George's (who's the splitting image of Olivia d'Abo [Wonder Years]) character from under the house. If that was the case, then the vampires could have easily taken her from under the house as they previously did in an earlier scene. Also, if Josh Harnett's character knew the way to kill them is to cut of their heads, why didn't they get more axes from the hardware store for his companions to use? But what killed the story was when Josh Hartnett had to become a vampire to defeat the vampires. That was just too "Buffy the Vampire Hunter" (the TV show not the movie) and it just made the story a little corny.