![]() ![]() It seems to be surrounded by a sea of white on all sides, and the citizens seem to be stuck in a state of depression. Barrow is a town that appears to be cut off from the rest of the world. There is a sense of dread and hopelessness that permeates this entire film. It's a fairly simple concept, yet the director makes it work incredibly well. Eventually only a handful of humans remain in town, and they must survive the month without starving, freezing, or being killed by the vampires. The fact that this translates into a month without sunlight attracts a group of vampires who attack the town and spend the month feeding on its citizens. Because it is so far up north, there comes a time every winter where the sun doesn't rise for 30 days. This movie is set in the small town of Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost town in the U.S. It's not perfect, but it's still better than just about every horror movie I've seen since "The Descent" (which also relied on a creepy atmosphere to fill the viewer with a sense of dread and hopelessness). It's creepy atmosphere that makes a movie particularly scary, and this movie does a great job at creating the kind of atmosphere that fills the viewer with the kind of dread that so many movies fail to achieve. It's not obscene amounts of gore or monsters jumping out at the camera that make a movie scary. "30 Days of Night" is easily one of the best horror movies I've seen in a very long time mostly because everyone involved seemed to know exactly what it takes to make a decent horror movie. ![]()
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