Product Description

Josh Harnett (Black Dahlia Pearl Harbor) crosses over to the dark side in this bone-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.System Requirements:Run Time: 113 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER Rating: R UPC: 043396196155 Manufacturer No: 19615

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #607 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2008-02-26
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 113 minutes

Amazon.com
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

Stills from 30 Days of Night (click for larger image)

Beyond 30 Days of Night

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On the DVD
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

Customer Reviews

30 days of night
30 days of night

good movie

bad ending

could have been better

Good example of a vampire movie done WRONG!
What can I say this movie just plain Sucked!(no pun intended) I mean me and my girlfriend were both looking forward to seeing this garbage and were both upset that we missed it in theaters! And now that we've both had the great misfortune of seeing it I've got to say "What the f*** were they thinking! It wasn't bad enough that the vampires first start off by killing all the huskies(which being an animal lover was just too upsetting)to say nothing of the fact that I just don't have any clue why the vampires did that in the first place! But well you've heard of movies that are too predictable well not this one and let me tell you why because rather than take some time to actually build up some semblance of suspense so that you can both think about what might happen and be frightened by the vampires lurking in the dark what they did instead was just simply rush the vampires untimely and tactless attacks! The script dull the characters were dull and other than Josh Hartnett I have no clue who the h*** the rest of the actors are! I hate Josh Hartnett and only like his movie Wicker Park! His crying was fake and corny and let's face it with those stupid looking weepy eyes of his Josh always looks like he's crying! The acting was 3rd rate! And come on vampires that not only can be killed by bullets but murder pepole more than suck their blood is just too insulting and MYOPIC to a purist like me! And finally that ending with Josh Harnett's love interest kissing him one minute and then as the sun comes up coaxing his ashy head was corny/laughable creepy and just plain disturbing!(also it just looked like a rip off of the ending to Blade II) All in all this movie is not just an assault on horror movie fans but vampire movie fans as well! Avoid it like the plague it is at all costs!

Not to bad
I thought this movie was pretty good. Granted, there were a few things that just didn't make much sense to me and other areas seemed flawed. But, when I went to see this at the theater I was expecting blood, I was expecting action and I was expecting something totally different to your old fashion vampire movies. And it definitely delivered on that. If you are looking for something to watch while you curl up with your woman on a couch late at night and have her hiding her face in your arm while you are admiring the cool action and death scenes then check this out.