'30 Days Of Night'

‘30 Days Of Night’ (2007)
Genre: Horror
Director: David Slade



The film ‘30 Days of night’ is a horror, originally in a form of a novel named ‘30 days.’ The opening scene of the film brings us to Alaska, where the weather extremities are vast. In the last few hours of daylight mysterious crimes are baffling Sheriff Eben Oleson, played by Josh Harnett. He tries desperately to solve these dilemmas before the daylight disappears and the town is plunged into thirty days of gruelling darkness. All of the residents mobile phones have been stolen and burnt and the towns watch dogs have been slaughtered.
A stranger is sighted in a nearby cafe. The character, played by Ben Foster, is an extremely odd and unnerving character. Meanwhile Eben also has to deal with an agonising break up from his beloved wife Stella who refuses to discuss anything with Ebun. Stella, played by Mellisa George, finds herself missing the last flight out of Alaska before the dark hits and is confined to the town for the next thirty days.
When the dark hits the town so does a hungry pack of blood sucking vampires. They ransack the village and set the town alight. Ebun struggles to get himself and a few other remaining people to safety. They watch from a boarded up house as the vampires try several different tricks to lure them out of their hiding place. Firstly they instruct a terrified towns girl to walk through the village shouting for help. However Sheriff Ebun Oleson discovers that the vampires are setting a trap when he sights them hungry for food, hiding on the rooftops. After making no progress by using the girl as bate, she is subjected to a violent ending as they beat her violently and eventually suck her blood.
The remaining survivors discover that they must move from their hiding place, as they are becoming weaker and running out of supplies. As they do so various characters appoint themselves as becoming the bate, they distract the vampires as the rest of the survivors move on.
As the film develops it is discovered that the characters that have been bitten stay themselves for a while until they eventually turn blood thirsty. The survivors come to the point where there is just one day remaining. However the group is split up and Stella is stranded extremely close to the vampires under a truck. The vampires begin to burn down the whole of the town and it becomes clear to Ebun what he must do. He injects the blood of a dead transformed vampire into his veins. Understanding that he will stay himself for a while he knows that this is Stella’s only chance for survival. Human ability is nothing compared to a vampires so this is Ebun’s only chance for a fair fight.
He fights the vampires as Stella gets away and eventually kills the lead one.
Eventually Ebun is again reunited with Stella, and she realises how much she still loves him. As daylight appears the hold one another until Ebun disappears into thin air. The last remaining villagers have lived to tell the tale. This horror is a successful portrayal of the mythological creatures; vampires. The film is successful in maintaining a frightening atmosphere of suspense and tension.