30 days of Night - now on DVD

DFS UTD

WHAT A GORE FEST.

Great horror film!!

keefg

Yeah, saw this a couple of days ago. Very entertaining.

Retr0gamer

Saw it a few days ago, Utter garbage. It was an absolute mess of a film. Awful acting from josh hartnett once again and the editting was dreadful, the film was all over the place. The monsters were also crap. It's like dawn of the dead except it's cold, there's vampire things instead of zombies and it totally sucked.

constitutionus

havent seen the DVD , is there any extra etc?

seen the film in the cinema and i liked it. very atmospheric and its nice to have vampires that are actually scary again instead of the effeminate models we've been afflicted with for the last decade and a half.

thought the end was a rip off of blade two though

Karl Hungus

I really enjoyed it, it was a very good adaptation of the comic books, and as consititutionus says, makes a big break from the type of vampires we're used to seeing.

constitutionus wrote: »

thought the end was a rip off of blade two though

The end sticks pretty close to the source material though, which was published, incidently the same year as Blade 2. Surely just a coincidence.

pixelburp

It was good, only insofar as it has been a long time since I saw a horror movie that actually was scary. It made a good stab at trying to ratchet up the tension, then release it in an increasing sense of terror and hopelessness. No self-consciousness, no interchangeable teens trying to bone each other, even the gore was used in the right places & not just just as goreporn.

Vic Vinegar

constitutionus wrote: »

havent seen the DVD , is there any extra etc?

There's a meaty looking 2 disc set out in cool packaging! i'd say there'll be a few cool extras on that

keefg

I wouldn't fancy bumping into that little girl in the shop.......Jeez, she was the creepiest of the lot (shudder)

Karl Hungus

keefg wrote: »

I wouldn't fancy bumping into that little girl in the shop.......Jeez, she was the creepiest of the lot (shudder)

I don't know, I think on the whole kids are overplayed in horror movies as of late, so I didn't find that scene very creepy at all.

Zapp Brannigan

Didn't like it at all. But the music in it was good.

I really enjoyed it. It has it's faults, the lack of tension after the intiial vampire attack being a big disappointment but overall it was one of the most entertaining vampire films in a long time. In recent years all we seem to have got are Anne Rice type vampires completely lacking any real threat.

Anyone else pick up 30 Days of Night: Bloodtrails? I watched it and was very disappointed. The case lists the running time at 41 minutes but at least half of that ais made up of the opening and closing credits which run with each of the 7 episodes.There is no option to watch it without the credits, which is a shame as it's actually quite a decent short film.

Necronomicon

As a big fan of the comics I loved this movie. First vampire movie I can recall in a while with genuinely creepy vampires. The dvd is excellent as well, a lot of features and the original comic as well.

MooseJam

I'd like to know where the vampires bought their clothes, could you imagine that lot walking into M&S surely there would be some questions asked, maybe between the killings they have a sewing circle ?

johnny_ultimate

Didn't think it was awful, but hardly a horror masterpiece either. Thought the vampires were well realised, and some cool camerawork and effects (e.g. the helicopter over the town). Some obvious flaws (including the fact that the chronology feels like a day or so - they never seem to reflect the actual time that passes) but fun, dumb actioner that does what it says on the tin.

senordingdong

Awful shame of a movie.

Tusky

I absolutely loved it. Highly recommended. If you are one of those people that likes to focus on the positive in a movie, I'm sure you will really enjoy it.

If you usually spend the 90 minutes looking for plot holes, you most likely wont.

Enjoy it for what it is. A gory, tense, entertaining comic book horror movie.

Jello

Thought it was enjoyable but that's all. A complete gore fest, could've been a bit scarier for my liking, though the vampires did look great (though the fella in the middle here was the scariest of them all). Ben Foster was excellent too. Actually found myself laughing quite a few times though at parts which I don't think were intended to be funny...

constitutionus

Karl Hungus wrote: »

I don't know, I think on the whole kids are overplayed in horror movies as of late, so I didn't find that scene very creepy at all.

maybe i picked it up wrong but i got the impression that the kid was a local girl that got turned ala that bloke under the building and thats why they were so appalled by her.

i agree somewhat with the comment about how it didnt really feel like they were there for 30 days, maybe a few scenes showing em trying to cook on the sly and having meals wouldve helped. still some great images. the helicopter pan of them feeding and the blood on the snow were great visuals.

seem to remember someone saying when it was in the cinema that it had a kinda ann frank/ nazi vibe to it crossed with "the thing" . i think thats a pretty good analogy.

calahans

A decent horror movie. The story wasnt great but still had a few jumps.

Snake Plisken

Decent Vampire flick, reminded me a bit of The Thing with the remote cut off setting and also the recent classic The Mist.
Worth picking up on Blu-Ray, great Picture and hidef soundtrack. Decent set of extras with a 51 minute High Def making of which is basically a diary of the production. Also its region free so pick it up cheap in the US from Deepdiscounts or Amazon.com

fluffyVW

I actually thought it was good!!! I mean not the best vampire/horror movie ever but it was good!!!

Josh Hartnett is very bad in lead roles I think and it should have been someone else but OMG Danny Huston makes up for it and was brilliant!!! I love him and want to see him in more movies now!!! I loved him in The Proposition and I would highly recommend that movie.

Ben Foster was great in this too, if you liked him in this I highly highly recommend you watch 3:10 to Yuma he's in this most of the time and I loved his performance.

Anyway 30 Days Of Night good and enjoyable, I would recommend it. You either like it or ya don't!!!

The Artist

saw that last week.Its ok but never got to know where the vamps started from and where i bit confusing.I know vamps come out at night but didnt show their lair etc.Russians were they?:cool:

SirLemonhead

Crap, unscary vampires.

Yawn.

Marksie

Atmospheric. Some of the shots could be comic frames and i enjoyed the overhead panning in the initial attack.

But i felt it was overlong and the tension ebbed a little... it just couldn't sustain the impetus

LeoGilly

I really liked this movie! Some great axe sceens. Would of like to have seen more of Ben Foster. He was excellent in Alpha Dog!

fluffyVW

LeoGilly wrote: »

I really liked this movie! Some great axe sceens. Would of like to have seen more of Ben Foster. He was excellent in Alpha Dog!

Have you seen 3:10 to Yuma??? If you like Ben Foster you'll love that!!! I thought he was great in it!!!

I really would love to see him in more movies, I hope he doesn't start going down hill and start staring in "chick flicks" or something!!! :eek:

The Artist

fluffyVW wrote: »

Have you seen 3:10 to Yuma??? If you like Ben Foster you'll love that!!! I thought he was great in it!!!

I really would love to see him in more movies, I hope he doesn't start going down hill and start staring in "chick flicks" or something!!! :eek:

i might get that tonight?to watch are sure that 3:10 to yuma is good as i dont really like crowe at all?

fluffyVW

davey180 wrote: »

i might get that tonight?to watch are sure that 3:10 to yuma is good as i dont really like crowe at all?

Well I thought it was good, I myself don't like Crowe either but he wasn't bad in it at all!!! I think the character suited him and most importantly he didn't put me off it

I'd recommend it!!!

(But don't attack me if you don't like it or something!!! Hehe!!! Not that you would!!! :p:p)

Sangre

Karl Hungus wrote: »

I don't know, I think on the whole kids are overplayed in horror movies as of late, so I didn't find that scene very creepy at all.

its because she wasn't japanese

fluffyVW

Sangre wrote: »

its because she wasn't japanese

Teehee

phreneticus

anyone know when "zombie strippers" is out? Looks so bad it'll be brilliant! With a magic combination of "yer man who played jason back in the day" and a pornstar how could it possibly NOT kick ass?

phreneticus

phreneticus wrote: »

anyone know when "zombie strippers" is out? Looks so bad it'll be brilliant!

it's out on R1 DVD during the Summer. A R2 release could be months afterward.

phreneticus wrote: »

With a magic combination of "yer man who played jason back in the day" and a pornstar how could it possibly NOT kick ass?

Think you mean Freddy.