New DVD Picks of the Week: ‘30 Days of Night’ & ‘Beowulf’
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30 Days of NightIn Barrow, Alaska, winter brings 30 days of darkness along with the biting cold. (And I thought dark-by-5 pm sucked.) No sun, just bitterly cold blackness. Unsurprisingly, this attracts some particularly nasty, bloodthirsty vamps — ones that aren’t sexy and selective like Anne Rice’s fanged ones. They decide to take advantage of their 24-hour, 30-day free-for-all and start killing off the town’s residents who didn’t head south. You’ve got Josh Hartnett and Melissa George as human vamp fighters ill-equipped for the challenge, the Renfield-like Stranger (Ben Foster), and a troupe of baddies led by the wonderful Danny Huston’s Marlow. Both Erik and Ryan dug the film, saying things like: “Visually…the film looked absolutely incredible” and “there’s still a solid, well-constructed vampire movie to enjoy here, and I did enjoy it.”
After all of the funky mid-production […]
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