Product Description
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Josh Hartnett (The Black Dahlia, Pearl Harbor) crosses over to
the dark side in this -chilling adaptation of the cult-hit
graphic novel, brought to the screen in all its demonic glory. In
a small Alaskan town, thirty days 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.
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David (Hard Candy) Slade directs this nerve-jangling adaptation
of the popular graphic novel series about a mob of vampires that
overruns a remote Alaskan town in the grip of 30 Days of Night.
Josh Hartnett and Melissa George are the film's de facto heroes
(he's the stoic town sheriff and she's his estranged fire-marshal
wife) but the picture's real MVP is Slade's camera (along with
cinematographer Jo Willems), which careens across the town's
snowy landscape to detail the vampires' horrific assault on its
inhabitants, which are quickly pared down to a hardy few. The
script, co-written by the source material's creator, Steve Niles,
along with Pirates of the Caribbean's Stuart Beattie and Hard
Candy's Brian Nelson), proudly wears its influences on its
crimson-stained sleeve (Bram Stoker's Dracula, natch, but also
Salem's Lot, Night of the Living Dead, and John Carpenter's
version of The Thing) and boils down the graphic novels to a
series of tense and extremely bloody standoffs between Harnett
and George's band of survivors and the vaguely Slavic and
ferocious bloodsuckers led by Marlow (a feral and frightening
Danny Huston). And if the characters seem stock and the finale
begs suspension of disbelief, the set pieces leading up to it are
sufficiently supercharged with suspense and violence to please
most horror fans. Standouts in the supporting cast are Ben Foster
as the film's Renfield figure and Mark Boone Junior; the
disturbing score by Brian Reitzell also merits a mention. --Paul
Gaita
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Set Contains:
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For a film steeped in dark atmosphere and darker violence, the
supplemental features for 30 Days of Night have a surprisingly
light-hearted tone, but still manage to provide a wealth of
information about the picture's challenging production.
Commentary by stars Josh Hartnett and Melissa George with
producer Rob Tapert establishes the relaxed and friendly feel of
the extras with amusing and observant stories about the New
Zealand locations and scenes that nearly missed inclusion in the
final cut; the cast and crew also cut up in eight short
featurettes that address everything from the gruesome special
effects (courtesy Weta Digital) to casting and stunts, as well as
the effects of 33 consecutive night shoots on director David
Slade (who mugs cheerfully for the documentary camera) and his
crew. An episode of the 2006 anime series Blood + (which deals
with vampire-like creatures as fierce as Marlow's crew from 30
Days) is also included, though this is replaced on the Blu-Ray
edition by a featurette that compares the feature's visual design
to panels from its graphic novel source material. Trailers for
other Sony and Ghost House films, including both Grudge movies,
round out the special features. -- Paul Gaita
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