Day 283 - 10/10/09 - Movie #282
BEFORE: Yep, more vampires, and another film based on a comic book. When I first heard about the comic book's concept, I thought it was a great idea - vampires in Alaska, where they could exist for a month without any sunlight. Let's see if the movie maintained that cleverness.
THE PLOT: After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires.
AFTER: Yes, it's a clever starting point, but eventually it becomes just another vampire movie with a few fresh ideas. The vampires seal off the town, which pretty much closes down for a month of darkness anyway, and start picking off the humans one by one. Some of the survivors of the attack band together to find the best hiding place, but eventually they have to leave to replenish their supplies - so some people choose to sacrifice themselves, distracting the flock of vampires so that the other humans can move from place to place.
These are some seriously scary vampires - they look creepy, they move creepy and they communicate in a combination of shrill screams and a creepy foreign language (is that Russian? Hungarian?) I didn't recognize any of the actors except for Josh Hartnett, and Ben Foster as a mysterious drifter.
RATING: 5 out of 10 snowplows
SPOOK-O-METER: 9 out of 10, for gore, violence, vampires killing people, and people killing vampires (well over my threshold of 7, I didn't go to sleep until the sun came up)
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