30 Days of Night (2007)

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30 Days of Night was one of my favorite horror comics I have ever read. Steve Niles (writer) and Ben Templesmith (artist) create a tale that definitely gives you the barf shivers. Not your regular vampire tale. And my favorite part is the effort of the film makers took to make the film look as much like the comic as possible.

The movie opens and gives you the obvious right off the bat. Barrow, Alaska is an isolated town at the farthest point of North America. When the sun sets, Barrow lives cut off from the world in 30 days of night. If you're not familiar with how the earth orbits or anything about our poles, look it up on wikipedia, it's a real occurrence.

Eben (Josh Hartnet) the town sheriff is making rounds before the sunset for the last time in a month. As he runs around he finds odd acts of vandalism. Phones burned, all the towns sled dogs murdered and finally the satellite outpost abandoned and the post operator's head on a spit.

Meanwhile, the sheriff's ex-love interest Stella(Melissa George) is trying her best to get outta town before the sun goes down and the airport closes. It doesn't happen. She ends up in the town diner where she witnesses some creepy homeless looking dude harassing the owner. Eben shows up and takes the guy in followed by Stella.

Right after sunset, all the power ...

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