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Vampire va VOOM! , 15 November 2007
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30 Days of Night
on DVD (2007)
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Ben Foster, Melissa George
Director: David Slade
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Probably the best horror Hollywood has released in the last 20 years.
Yes, it tips its hat more than once to the Blade Trilogy but also Romero's zombie flicks and Carpenters 'The Thing' but thats no bad thing because its as if this film has taken all the best parts of these and put it into one freezing cold monster of a movie.
Set in a remote Alaskan town which goes 30 days without daylight, as it says in the title, a group of vampires turn up with the only thing in mind for the locals is dinner...and death.
This is brutal, gory, sadistic and moralistic as the survivors go through a minefield of emotions on their quest to survive until daylight.
Josh Hartnett exels in this film, and ive never been a fan of his, whilst character actor Danny Huston again proves to be an excellent choice of villain as the cheif Vampire.
The setting is almost as bleak as the survivors chances and superbly draws from the Things sense of secludedness in a barren, unforgiving land of ice and snow.
The effects are top notch-this includes arguably the best beheading scene in celluloid history- and the make up effects on the vampires almost portrays them like human rats instead of bats.
All in all a modern day horror classic which will astound even the hardiest of fans of the genre.
Superb!
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