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USA 2010
Director: Ben Ketai
Cast: Kiele Sanchez, Rhys Coiro, Diora Baird, Harold Perrineau, Mia Kirshner, Monique Ganderto
Rating: R
Release Date: 5 October 2010
Running Time: 1 hour 32 minutes
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Still in state of boredom because of no new movies available in Cinemas this weekend other than Harry Potter (2011) and Transformers 3 (2011), I popped in this DVD with big expectation to thrill me this noon. It is a sequel to a horror movie released in 2007 titled 30 Days of Night (2007) which gives both thrilling and exciting viewing experience. 30 Days of Night delivers this heightened sense of fear with the presence of a vampire which looks anything but regal --as it's commonly depicted.
Stella Oleson (Kiele Sanchez) is still in mourning after the loss of her husband in a remote town in Barrow, Alaska due to (of course) Vampires attacks. What makes her feel more devastated is the fact that no one believes her story. Traveling to Los Angeles, Stella even dares to pull a deadly stunt in an official conference which sends havoc to her audiences... She burns the vampires with UV light right on the spot! Soon, she's apprehended by an FBI agent who's actually the accomplice of the vampires. Fortunately, there is still one mysterious man named Dane (Ben Cotton) who always helps her and guides her and eventually hooks her up with a team with the same principals as her... To Avenge the Vampires. Through struggle and battle, they find out that a vampire queen, Lilith (Mia Kirshner) is behind all the human massacre including the one in Barrow.
Stella and her new friends, Amber (Diora Baird of Night of the Demons (2009)), Todd (Harold Perrineau) and Paul (Rhys Coiro) are determined to hunt down and kill Lilith to end it all.
For the n-times, a sequel is inferior to the original. 30 Days of Night: Dark Days still presents us with the menacing and ever vicious vampire who could run very fast and act like rabies-infected werewolves. But arguably due to either scheduling conflicts or lack of fulfilling salary, the original cast is replaced with other actors. And this already diminishes a little the ambience built by the first film. Furthermore, the sequel now feels gorier and class-less which makes it feel like a low-budget B-movie. This vampire film is also hurt by the one-dimensional characters, predictable storyline and rather mundane fighting scenes. I won't recommend it if you're a fan of original film. Besides the creepy and eerie town of Barrow is only used as reference.
> When sequels don't suck!: [Rec] 2 (2009) and Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011).
© iwan pranowo of Movielogy.com
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posted: Sunday, 7 Aug 2011 06:09 pm
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