Movie Review for 30 Days Of Night

Summary: In Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost town in the U.S, the winter sun sets and does not rise for 30 days and nights. From the darkness comes an evil force that strikes terror on the town, and all hope is pinned on a husband-and-wife cop team.

                         Reviews of 30 Days Of Night
By John Wirt of Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) (7/0)
            The unscary 30 Days of Night has shallow bite.

By Brian Webster of Apollo Guide (7/0)
            Let's call this one 'Vampire Movies for Dummies', complete with our hero (John Hartnett) having t...

By Phil Villarreal of Arizona Daily Star (7/0)
            These vamps could use stakes as toothpicks and garlic as garnish on their meals of human flesh. T...

By Fred Topel of Can Magazine (7/0)
            It's the Bourne Ultimatum of horror movies... It is Ghost House Pictures' first great film. Actua...

By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
            ...a better than average example of the genre...

By Michael Phillips of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
            ...sucks the fun out of graphic novel.

                         Reviews of 30 Days Of Night
By M. K. Terrell of Christian Science Monitor (7/0)
            Here's a story set in a place where people are almost as impervious to cold as vampires, and road...

By Joshua Tyler of CinemaBlend.com (7/0)
            There's nothing glossy or slick about it.

By Joshua Tyler of CinemaBlend.com (7/0)
            David Slade hasn't revolutionized the vampire genre, but he may make you wet your pants.

By Jeff Otto of cinemaobsession.com (7/0)
            Breathes new life into a stale genre with a twist so ingenious you wonder why no one had ever tho...

By Cole Smithey of ColeSmithey.com (7/0)
            You can't have horror without suspense. Don't they teach the films of Alfred Hitchcock anymore in...

By Edward Douglas of ComingSoon.net (7/0)
            Commendable for its daring, unconventional vision of vampires, but its erratic pacing makes it a ...

                         Reviews of 30 Days Of Night
By Christopher Tookey of Daily Mail [UK] (7/0)
            Good idea, boring execution.

By Johnny Butane of Dread Central (7/0)
            30 Days of Night grabs this hoary monster by the throat, pumps it full of the thick rich blood of...

By Alex Markerson of E! Online (7/0)
            A nifty premise... spoiled by slipshod storytelling and a grim, charmless cast.

By Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
            30 Days of Night is relentless, but it's also relentlessly one-note.

By Pete Vonder Haar of Film Threat (7/0)
            Decent vampire movies are few and far between, and I'm having a hard time remembering a recent on...

By Sean O'Connell of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            ...amounts to two hours of missed opportunities.

                         Reviews of 30 Days Of Night
By Rob Vaux of Flipside Movie Emporium (7/0)
            In order to enjoy the best, you have to put up with the worst... and rarely have "best" and "wors...

By Megan Lehmann of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
            ...dramatically, the film is a shambles, with whiplash-inducing lurches in tone and pacing that m...

By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            Report on the first press screening, interview with David Slade.

By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            Exclusive Interview with Steve Niles.

By Andrea Chase of Killer Movie Reviews (7/0)
            more likely to induce a coma than a nightmare

By Luke Y. Thompson of New Times (7/0)
            If the comic book had never existed, this would be pretty cool. As is, it's a slightly missed opp...

                         Reviews of 30 Days Of Night
By Elizabeth Weitzman of New York Daily News (7/0)
            An anemic adaptation of Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith's creepy comic series, 30 Days of Night i...

By Kyle Smith of New York Post (7/0)
            Hartnett...once again displays the same range of facial expressions as the average footstool...

By Matt Zoller Seitz of New York Times (7/0)
            ...tedious, inconsequential B picture.

By Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
            Certainly bloody, but not bloody good...doesn't go the tongue-in-cheek route, but by the close it...

By Scott Tobias of Onion AV Club (7/0)
            Director David Slade takes the film adaptation halfway home by getting the look exactly right.

By Mike Sage of Peterborough This Week (7/0)
            no amount of desensitization can prepare you for David Slade's chilling vampiric bloodbath. 30 Da...

                         Reviews of 30 Days Of Night
By Gary Thompson of Philadelphia Daily News (7/0)
            You may not believe there's any more blood to suck from the shriveled corpse of the vampire movie...

By Tirdad Derakhshani of Philadelphia Inquirer (7/0)
            A truly terrifying hell-ride through darkness for grownups.

By Betty Jo Tucker of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (7/0)
            Gone are filmdom's traditional seductive vampires, but '30 Days of Night' still contains chills a...

By James Berardinelli of ReelViews (7/0)
            Finally - a modern vampire movie where audiences sympathize with the victims rather than their at...

By Peter Hartlaub of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
            ...well-paced and entertaining...

By Andy Spletzer of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
            Horror films live or die by the quality of their villains, and in this case the vampires don't se...

                         Reviews of 30 Days Of Night
By Nick Schager of Slant Magazine (7/0)
            Pushes things into violent, hardcore territory all too similar to Danny Boyle's zombie-outbreak f...

By Andrew Wright of The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (6/1)
            Rises above its source material, both in plot and gut-rumbling tone. Even accounting for a few lo...

By Claudia Puig of USA Today (7/0)
            (Director) Slade keeps the action moving, the clichés at arm's length and the genre infused with...

By Matthew Turner of ViewLondon (7/0)
            30 Days Of Night has a terrific premise and an intriguing setting, but it's badly let down by poo...

By Robert Wilonsky of Village Voice (7/0)
            The movie's just not very scary.

By Willie Waffle of WaffleMovies.com (7/0)
            Why see the same old Saw when you have a chance to see the best and scariest vampires you have se...

                         Reviews of 30 Days Of Night
By Desson Thomson of Washington Post (7/0)
            30 Days of Night is the kind of gruesome but entertaining survival guide you pray you never have ...

By Prairie Miller of WBAI Web Radio (7/0)
            This oddly humorous horror feeding frenzy on frozen turf finds Danny Huston as the head honcho of...

By David Germain of Associated Press (3/4) No reference
            You can only see so many snarling hissy fits by vampires with perpetually bloody chins before the...

By Devin Faraci of CHUD (3/4) No reference
            [A] turd covered in tasty Ghirardelli chocolate - as soon as you sink your teeth in you know you'...

By Jeff Vice of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (3/4) No reference
            The filmmakers have tried to expand the original source material by adding more characters to the...

By John Monaghan of Detroit Free Press (3/4) No reference
            Even when it resorts to the hoariest clichés, 30 Days of Night still chills.

                         Reviews of 30 Days Of Night
By Scott Weinberg of FEARnet (3/4) No reference
            The coolest vampire movie since Near Dark.

By Scott Von Doviak of Fort Worth Star-Telegram (3/4) No reference
            The humans are a bore, but the vampires light up this Night.

By Matt Zoller Seitz of New York Times (3/4) No reference
            The performers have little to do besides spill and drink blood in this tedious, inconsequential B...

By Stefan Halley of Pop Syndicate (6/1) No reference
            Lays some groundwork for rehabilitating the vampire in movies. But don't expect anything consiste...

By Scott Weinberg of Rotten Tomatoes (3/4) No reference
            Hartnett to Experience "30 Days of Night"

Movie Distributors
Sony Pictures Releasing

Production Companies
Dark Horse Entertainment
Ghost House Pictures

Movie Studios
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group