30 Days of Night (2007)

30 Days of Night
Directed By	David Slade
Produced By	Sam Raimi, Ted Adams, Rob Tapert
Written By	Steve Niles, Stuart Beattie
Starring	Josh Hartnett Melissa George Danny Huston Ben Foster Mark Boone, Jr. Mark Rendall
Music By	Brian Reitzell
Cinematography	Jo Willems
Editing By	Art Jones
Distributed By	Columbia Pictures; Dark Horse Entertainment
Release Date	October 19th, 2007
Runtime	113 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$30 million
Gross	$75,304,357
Preceded by	30 Days of Night: Blood Trails
Followed by	30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust

Cast

Actor	Role
Josh Hartnett	Eben Oleson
Melissa George	Stella Oleson
Danny Huston	Marlow
Ben Foster	The Stranger
Mark Boone Junior	Beau Brower
Mark Rendall	Jake Olseon
Amber Sainsbury	Denise
Manu Bennett	Billy Kitka
Megan Franich	Iris
Joel Tobeck	Doug Hertz
Elizabeth Hawthorne	Lucy Ikos
Nathaniel Lees	Carter Davies
Craig Hall	Wilson Bulosan
Chic Littlewood	Issac Bulosan
Peter Feeney	John Riis
Min Windle	Ally Riis
Camille Keenan	Kirsten Toomey
Jack Walley	Peter Toomey
Elizabeth McRae	helen Munson
Joe Dekkers-Reihana	Tom Melanson
Scott Taylor	Paul Jayko
Grant Tilly	Gus Lambert
Pua Magasiva	Malekai Hamm
Jared Turner	Aaron
Kelson Henderson	Gabe
John Wraight	Adam Colletta
Dayna Porter	Jeannie Colletta
Kate Butler	Michelle Robbins
Patrick Kake	Frank Robbins
Thomas Newman	Larry Robbins
Rachel Maitland-Smith	Gail Robbins
Abbey-May Wakefield	Little girl vampire
John Rawls	Zurial
Andrew Stehlin	Arvin
Tim McLachlan	Archibald
Ben Fransham	Heron
Kate Elliott	Dawn
Allan Smith	Khan
Jarrod Martin	Edgar
Sam La Hood	Strigoi
Jacob Tomuri	Seth
Kate O'Rourke	Inika
Melissa Billington	Kali
Aaron Cortesi	Cicero
Matt Gillanders	Daeron
Jay Saussey	Doug's wife (uncredited)

Plot

thumb|200px|left The town of Barrow, Alaska is preparing for its annual "30 Days of Night", a period during the winter in which the sun will not be seen for a month: some inhabitants leave for Fairbanks or other parts south. As the town gets ready, the Stranger (Ben Foster) rows ashore from a large ship. Once in Barrow, he sets about sabotaging the town (stealing and burning cell phones, killing all the sled dogs) in the belief that the vampires will make him one of them if he helps them with their plans.

Barrow's sheriff, Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett) investigates these crimes. As he does so, he learns that his estranged wife, Stella Oleson (Melissa George), missed the last plane out of town and will have to spend the 30 day period in Barrow. Although they try to avoid one another, when Eben confronts the Stranger in the town diner, Stella helps subdue him and take him to the station house.

From the jail cell, the Stranger taunts Eben, Stella, Eben's teenage brother, Jake (Mark Rendall) and grandmother, telling them that death is coming for them. Just then, vampires attack the local telecommunications center and power supply, rendering the town dark and cut off from the outside world. Eben goes to the telecommunications center and finds the operator's head on a spike. He and Stella then go through town, warning all the residents to lock themselves indoors and load all weapons.

Meanwhile, the vampires, led by Marlowe (Danny Huston) attack the town. The vampires speak in an ancient, guttural language, clarified by subtitles. Unless they are shot in the head, bullets are useless against them. They slaughter most of the town, including Eben's grandmother, while the remaining survivors congregate in the diner. The vampires attack Eben and Stella but Beau Brower (Mark Boone Junior), the local snowplow driver, rescues them. Everyone decides to go to the boarded up house of someone who had left town earlier that day. The house has a hidden attic where they are able to hide. Marlow finds the Stranger in the jail and assures him that they will take care of him. Then, rather than turning him into a vampire as the Stranger wished, Marlow kills him. Marlow orders the vampires not to transform anyone into a vampire; they will slaughter the town and then disappear in order to preserve modern humanity's belief that vampires are "only bad dreams" and nothing more.

Over the next week, Eben, Stella, Jake and seven others stick it out in the attic. During this time, a stray survivor walks by crying for help, being used as bait by the vampires. Eben ventures out to help her, finding John Riis in the crawlspace under a building. As the girl, having been unsuccessful in luring any survivors to her, is attacked and killed by the vampires, Eben attempts to help John. However, he discovers that John had become a vampire, and ends up killing him. It is because of this that he learns that beheading the vampires will kill them. Shortly after, Wilson and his senile father, Isaac, are lost when they leave the house in which they had been hiding.

When a blizzard hits, Eben and the others use the whiteout conditions to make it to the general store. There, a young girl vampire attacks and wounds one of them. The whiteout conditions end, preventing them from making it back to the abandoned house under cover. Eben decides everyone should go to the police station. He provides a diversion by running to his grandmother's house to retrieve an ultraviolet lighting system. Eben makes it to the house, jump starts the generator, and turns the light on the vampires who have followed him. It hideously burns a female vampire named Iris, forcing Marlow to kill her. Eben escapes the house followed by the vampires. Beau comes to the rescue, killing many of the vampires with his backhoe. He crashes into a hotel and then ignites a box of dynamite using road flares, trying to kill himself. His ploy is unsuccessful though as Beau lives through the blast and Marlow crushes his skull, but it gives Eben the time to make it to the police station. There, the wounded member, Carter Davies (Nathaniel Lees) turns into a vampire. He tells the group of the death of his wife and children. He longs to be with them and is horrified of the prospect of living forever, never to see them in the afterlife. With some shred of his humanity left, he asks Eben to end it. Eben complies, and beheads him.

Two more weeks pass. Stella and Eben find his deputy, Billy Kitka (Manu Bennett), signaling them with a flashlight from across the street. Eben and Stella make it to Billy's house. When the vampires had attacked, Billy killed his wife and daughters but his gun jammed when he tried to commit suicide. Stella and Eben take him back to the station house. There they learn that the others have made it to the utilidor, a power station that controls the oil pipeline which is only structure that still has power. Eben, Stella, and Billy begin to sneak towards the utilidor. Soon the members spot a figure moving towards them. They soon realize it's a young human girl. Stella stops to rescue the young girl, Gail Robbins, who is being stalked by the vampire Zurial (John Rawls). Eben and Billy try to distract him while Stella gets the girl to safety. Instead, Billy and Eben are separated. They both eventually make it to the utilidor, but another vampire follows Billy inside.

Eben is happy to see the rest of the survivors have made it alive. The vampire attacks Billy, ripping into his neck and dazing him. When the vampire turns to attack Eben, Billy gets up and knocks it into the gears of the utilidor's pump, shredding the creature. Billy's arm gets caught in the gears as well and his entire forearm is completely gone. Billy screams in pain as Eben tries to calm him down. Eben then realizes that Billy's screams become vampiric shrieks. Eben is then forced to kill Billy with an axe, beheading him.

The sun is due to rise in a few hours. The vampires decide to burn the town to cover their tracks to preserve the thought that they don't exist. Stella radios to Eben that she and the young girl are hiding under an abandoned truck across the street from the utilidor, the flames rapidly approaching them. Realizing he cannot beat the vampires as a human, Eben injects himself with Billy's infected blood so he can fight them as a vampire. He and Marlow fight a vicious battle. As the battle comes to a close, Marlow charges Eben as Eben throws a punch. The punch, empowered by Eben's vampiric super-strength, runs through Marlow's mouth and out the back of his head, killing him. Leaderless, with the sun about to rise, the other vampires disappear.

Eben and Stella watch the sunrise together. While Stella rests on Eben's shoulder, they share one last kiss. Stella holds Eben tightly in her arms as the light of sun brightens. His body begins to burn and he lets out a bloodcurdling scream. Seconds later he dies, his body turned to ash. The end of the film is marked as Stella closes her eyes, cradling Eben's ashen corpse.

Notes & Trivia

• 30 Days of Night is based on a Dark Horse Comics comic book series written by Steve Niles and Matt Fraction.

External Links

• 30 Days of Night at Wikipedia
• 30 Days of Night at All Movie Guide (AMG)
• 30 Days of Night at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)

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