30 Days of Night (film)
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| Directed by | David Slade |
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30 Days of Night by Steve Niles Ben Templesmith |
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| Music by | Brian Reitzell |
| Cinematography | Jo Willems |
| Edited by | Art Jones |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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113 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $30 million |
| Box office | $75.5 million |
30 Days of Night is a 2007 American horror film based on the comic book miniseries of the same name. The film is directed by David Slade and stars Josh Hartnett and Melissa George. The story focuses on an Alaskan town beset by vampires as it enters into a thirty-day long polar night.
30 Days of Night was originally pitched as a comic, then as a film, but it was rejected. Years later, Steve Niles showed IDW Publishing the idea and it took off. The film was produced on a budget of $30 million and grossed over $75 million at the box office during its six-week run starting on October 19, 2007. Critical reviews were mixed.
A sequel, Dark Days, was released on October 5, 2010 straight to home video. A prequel mini-series, Blood Trails, was released on FEARnet.com and FEARnet On Demand in 2007.
The town of Barrow, Alaska is preparing for its annual "30 Days of Night", a period during the winter when there is a month-long polar night. As the town gets ready, a stranger (Ben Foster) rows ashore from a large ship and sabotages the town's communications and transport to the outside world. Barrow's sheriff, Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett) investigates and also learns that his estranged wife, Stella (Melissa George), missed the last plane and must stay the 30 days. That night, a coven of feral vampires, led by Marlow (Danny Huston), attack and slaughter most of the townspeople, forcing Eben, Stella, Eben's younger brother Jake (Mark Rendall), and several other survivors to take shelter in a boarded-up house with a hidden attic. Marlow finds the stranger locked up in the station. The stranger believed Marlow was going to turn him into a vampire. Marlow thanks him for doing what he asked, and then snaps his neck. Marlow comments to his fellow vampires "What lies they will believe."
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