The film's producer Sam Raimi is himself no stranger to movies based on comic books. After all, he directed the three mega-hit "SpiderMan" movies. However, Raimi's roots are in horror. His early film successes were "Evil Dead," "Evil Dead 2," and "Army of Darkness," all classics of the genre. With "30 Days of Nights," Raimi wanted to make a scary movie, a vampire tale. But "vampires aren't scary anymore," he laments. "They, you know, I mean - they hang out with you, you know, teenage girls date them on TV now. [Laughter] They're just, you know, they're not scary ... we had made them too human. So we had to strip away all that and the idea of a creature that looks very much like us, (for one) that looks at us like cattle, like food and that is it. That was something [Ben Foster] and I re...
LOS ANGELES - The horror tale "30 Days of Night" had three days of box-office bite. The Sony fright flick, with Josh Hartnett leading Alaskans against ravenous vampires that turn up for the prolonged winter darkness, debuted as the weekend's No. 1 movie with $16 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Director David Slade's stab at the story is actually rather ordinary: a grisly game of hide-and-seek, pitting the town's few survivors (among them Josh Hartnett as the sheriff and Melissa George as his estranged wife) against the bloodsucking gang, led by Danny Huston, who speaks in a foreign tongue just for extra spookiness.
DAYS OF NIGHT -- ** -- Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston; rated R (violence, gore, profanity, drugs, vulgarity) The vampire yarn "30 Days of Night" is a real mess -- both literally and figuratively.
The hero of the film is Sheriff Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett, Pearl Harbor), who teams with his wife Stella (Mellissa George, Turistas) and a few of the town's more colorful characters to fend off the throng of well-dressed bloodsuckers. Notable role players are Ben roster (3:10 to Yuma) as a grimy vampire sentinel, Danny Huston (The Number 23) as the evil leader and Mark Boone Jr. (Batman Begins) as a disgruntled community member.
It's nice to see the vampire -- the old-school, scary kind -- finally getting its day in the sun. Well, figuratively speaking, since sunlight kills them.
In stores THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (2010, Summit, PG-13, $30) -- The latest chapter in the supernatural series is the best of the lot thanks to director David Slade's ("30 Days of Night") determination to transfuse the angsty drama with sly humor and genuinely thrilling action scenes. The triangle between the virginal Bella (Kristen Stewart) and her two superhuman suitors -- vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) and werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner) -- heats up considerably. But that's not all that's going on in Forks. As Bella weighs marriage proposals and declarations of love from her fellas, a "newborn" vampire army is forming under the direction of the bloodthirsty Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard). Extras: music videos, commentaries, featurettes and deleted scenes.
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