What I Liked:
This scene:
What I Didn’t Like: The general premise and the vampire design. As far as I’m concerned these barley classify as vampires. Here’s why…
Overall Impressions:
The plot involves a remote Alaskan town where the sun sets and doesn’t rise
again for 30 days. So vampires use this opportunity
to take over and massacre everyone. This
may sound silly but what I don’t get is why the filmmakers bothered to have the
attacking creatures be vampires and why this whole thing had to take place over
30 sunless days.
One, these vampires never display human emotions. They’re mindless killing machines looking to
tear every person to shreds. The beauty
of a vampire is that there’s still some human part left so there’s plenty of
conflict, relatability and trust issues.
When you take that away what makes them any different than zombies or
those things from The Descent or the
graboids from Tremors or whatever?
Two, the vamps are never in danger. Since there’s no sunlight, threatening human
population or hunters to hide from then I have to ask again, why go with
vampires? You might as well make up some
other creature that kills indiscriminately if you’re not gonna play on any of
the vampire’s strengths or weaknesses.
Lastly, the 24/7 nighttime angle doesn’t work if our heroes
hide out for almost all of it. I think the
idea was supposed to be that they’re in constant danger for 30 days but that’s
not the way they really play it in the movie.
The plot skips ahead a week at a time with the humans seemingly able to get
by with no problem for long stretches. So
what’s the point?
If the film took place during regular day/night cycles and
the bad guys were an original type of monster that weren’t sensitive to
sunlight the plot would still be exactly the same.
This is a pretty weak vampire film and not a great horror
picture in general. You could do a lot
better.
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