30 Days of Nights: Blood on an Ice Cube....

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I like frozen horror. It just makes it more suitable I guess. We go to Barrow, Alaska, and watch the last sunset for 30 days. Peaceful enough until somebody calls Sheriff Josh Hartnett to report his sled dogs have been brutally butchered. Soon, we find that most ever mode of leaving Barrow has been boogered up and everyone is stuck for the long 30 day night. Not only that, it's illegal to sell liquor during that time!

We have plenty of darkness and driving snow. Hartnett arrests a strange drifter with really bad teeth at the beginning of the night and incarcerates him in a jail staffed by a grandmother and his own son. The stranger becomes the prophet of doom....slowly folks start to disappear then die screaming. The town streets turn into a butcher shoppe for vampires as they shred, gnaw, and drink blood to their heartless content.

Hartnett and his motley crew can only survive by changing locations and remaining a quiet as possible. As they hide the few initial survivors start to get gnawed. Plus, the chief neck gnaw is none other than Danny Huston speaking some strange language (Russian?) that requires subtitles.

Interestingly enough, one of Huston's best subtitled lines concerned that fact that "it took hundreds of years to convince the world we are a bad dream. Kill everyone." So, the entire town must die.

Sacrifices are made and a few good souls are saved but there were a few of those dark creatures who did escape to gnaw again another night.

This is a popcorn vehicle that has its artsy element. Not as artsy as the other "graphic novels" but atmospheric and moody. Filled with some of the usual cliches these vampires were the more modern "tough kind". Hard to catch and hard to kill (gotta separate that head).

Yes, it's a good, dark entertainment.

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Topic - 30 Days of Nights: Blood on an Ice Cube.... - mr grits 18:24:09 10/19/07 (3)

RE: Agree With Your Assessment - Daryl Zero 07:03:28 10/21/07 (1)

One of the film-student ushers said Huston was speaking Latin? I thought is was Rooskie. * - mr grits 16:19:25 10/21/07 (0)

Sub-title, "Into the VERY Wild." nt - tinear 14:24:21 10/20/07 (0)

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