UHM - 30 Days of Night

10/08/07
I've added yet another new clip.

10/07/07
You can check a new clip from the film on your left, and just a reminder that FEARnet is also airing short clips that serve as a prequel to the film.

9/15/07
You can now catch the first installment in the Blood Trails series (link on the left), which serves as a prequel to the events in the feature film.

9/13/07
Check above for a few new posters for the film. Thanks to Filmz.ru.

7/29/07
Head over to the trailers are to see the new "red-band" trailer that also includes a bloody new clip from the film afterwards.

6/09/07
The trailer is now available, courtesy of IGN.

6/06/07
The poster has been added above.

12/16/06
The first pic can be seen below.

9/13/06
In a recent interview at Coming Soon.net with star Josh Hartnett he revealed the following about the film: "It's less of a horror movie. You saw 'Alien,' right?" Hartnett asked. "It's like that. It's kind of a supernatural, but kind of a western, you know, in that genre. It's all about being on the edge. The outskirts of society. Having to create your own society with an outside element creating massive fear and panic. Most of the film you don't even know they're vampires." Also, Danny Huston has been added to the cast as the leader of a horde of vampires. Filming will begin shortly in New Zealand.

8/06/06
Click here to check the new "webisode" over at the Ghost House Pictures site with director David Slade speaking about the film.

7/29/06
According to the official site of actress Melissa George, she'll have a role in the film opposite Josh Hartnett. She'll be playing deputy sheriff of the town that gets overrun by vamps, and also happens to be the wife of Hartnett's character.

6/22/06
Josh Hartnett is set to star in the film, which is said to begin filming in New Zealand in August.

4/16/06
Director David Slade spoke to Zap2It recently about the film, where he revealed a possible July start date (although it's only tentative and may be pushed back). He also added the following: "We're faced with a tremendous task, which is making a scary vampire film. There aren't many of them. You can count them on two fingers," Salem's Lot and Nosferatu. "The rest of them, they fall into all kinds of traps. We're going to try to do our best to make a third one, and one of the ways we have to do it is to be more naturalistic than the graphic novel, because it's very over the top."

4/08/06
The film has an October '07 release.

3/25/06
Coming Soon briefly spoke to director David Slade about the project, in which he states the following: "I don't believe there's much of the genre left in what we've written, but it's very faithful both to Steve Niles' writing, and the town and the esthetic--we hope at this point, because we're not shooting until the summer--will be very close to Ben Templesmith's artwork. But we're going to maintain the level of realism."

9/11/05
Well after close to a year of no updates, the film is finally moving forward with David Slade set as director.

10/13/04
Producer Rob Tapert spoke with SciFi Wire about the current status of the project. He was quoted saying author Steve Niles is very pleased with the new script and they've just turned it into the studio. He also went on to say how they had to team up with Sony to help fund the project, because they believe it will be a 50 to 70 million dollar budget. Read it all here.

6/08/04
CBR spoke with comic book creator Steve Niles where he briefly revealed the status on the project. He was quoted saying, "'Thirty Days of Night' has a new screenplay being written right now by Stuart Beatty and we're that much closer with Sam [Raimi] being done with 'Spider-Man 2'...I know of two different occasions where Sam's been interviewed for 'Spider-Man 2' and he brought up 'Thirty Days of Night.' The studio's still excited about it, I'm still excited, we're just waiting."

3/07/04
According to the Anchorage Press the film is put on hold until a new writer is found for the script. Comic-writer Steve Niles was quoted saying "Another writer coming on is standard operating procedure. I'm in contact with the writer and he's cool and wants to preserve the story from the comic... probably more than my script even did. I still have faith. The year off thing is good too. It's the first time we've heard anything close to a date. I think at this rate, Wake the Dead will make it to the screen first". You can read the whole article here.

DETAILS

- Filming began the Summer of '06 in New Zealand.
- A series of short films will air at Fearnet before the film's official release in October that will feature the character "George" from the comics, whom is tracking the vampires as they make their way to Alaska.
- Budgeted at $70-million.
- Written by Brian Nelson.
- Director David Slade's second film, the first being Hard Candy.
- Colubia Pictures and Senator International are partnering for this film.
- Sam Raimi and his longtime producting partner, Rob Tapert, will produce.
- Steve Niles wrote the comic and he will develop the screenplay.
- This is based on the comic book series of the same name.

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Tom

Posted 161 days ago

It pains me to think of what this film could have been had it only utilized a better cast and a couple more gallons of blood. I enjoyed this movie for what its worth, but after a year of waiting.. it did not quite get there for me. What this film does have are moments of greatness, such as the pan shots of the town being overrun by the vampires.. people running back and forth, guns going off, etc... However, I think the film made a critical mistake in shying away from the violence one too many times... It doesn't go for broke, like say the Evil Dead films did for example, and thats what really drags it down. I was entertained by the level of carnage on display, but I was not altogether impressed, as I was hoping I would be. While it retains the overall look of the graphic novel, it certainly doesn't feel like it takes place of 30 days... and that is because we see no change in the characters or their surroundings, come to think of it.. we barely know the characters. In an intimate story like this, getting to know the people in distress would have helped immensly.. instead we get the usual horror movie fodder, and are only aware of one or two non substantial facts about each of the people. With a more capable cast and a better script, the ending might have actually worked on some emotional level, but I did not give a damn about these people, and so the impact was lessened. Some of the characters in this film are flat out ridiculous, and quite frankly the only one I found interesting was the lead vampire, and he only has a few subtitled lines of dialogue, what does that tell you? A longer running time, with added character development and more in your face gruesome violence would have boosted this film to meet its potential, but unfortunately.. it kind hovers below the line. So needless to say, aside from the niffty production design and the look of the vampires, I would hardly call this one of the best vampire movies in years, it could have been.. and I really wanted it to be, but it wasn't.

GX2

Posted 236 days ago

This was a decent film. The violence was exquisite. However, I would liked to have had a little more detail as to where the vamps hail from.

Evan

Posted 345 days ago

Ummm...well...I wouldnt call it an award winner but I wouldnt call it Tv movie either. Was it good, I would have rather spent 3 dollars at the cheap theater but then again I was invited and didnt have to pay at all! :) It was definatly gory and it was definatly scary...in some scenes at least. Personally...I thought it was a little over played and kinda stupid. Just in the way that they killed them, like the main guy would bash the guys head open with just his foot, or when he punches the guy through the stomach...I dont know. That was a little stupid to me. Overall...I would give it a 6 out of 10 maybe

Indy

Posted 460 days ago

Director obviously went for the lets get some unique looking individuals to make it arty? They all work except for the lead vampire..looks like a shoe salesman. They have their own language which is subtitled* Take off subtitles* makes the cheesy lines they say more threatening when you can't understand them. (Just my opinion)
Tones in the film are amazing, location looked great and tense in many places. Oh yeah and some cool limb chopping, head decapitations that made me go " eeew..wow..cool..but man thats kinda brutal for hollywood".

Sgt.Evergreen

Posted 475 days ago

I liked it very much. Good gore scenes. What did u guys expect ? A happy ending when they get married and have lots of kids???

Strifer

Posted 485 days ago

I just saw the movie it wasn't all that great beacuse of o big problems one is the obvious "shaky camera thing" and the other is how light is the movie, im not saying in violence and gore there are very great scenes and great characters, is more about script and concept was specting a dark horror movie more that a fast action one, I think it's a great effort, cool movie but not enough to become a cult classic (something that give us nightmares) but that's just an opinion.

B Man 768

Posted 487 days ago

WOW! A nice addition to the list of exceptional vampire movies. Did anyone care to notice how advanced these vampires were? From how they took out all forms of communication and how they stalked their prey? Josh Harnett and Melissa George were both fine in their roles, and the purpse for the injection was to become an equal to the vampires and possess their qualities in order to defeat the leader. GoreHound, you're spot on, bro. Keep watching excellent movies!

wicker boy

Posted 491 days ago

Josh Hartnett SUCKS! BIG! he was awful as Eben. he didn't act at all. same goes to Melissa George. always finds herself doing awful horror movies like The Amityville Remake with Ryan Reynolds who's also another awful actor. the ending was the worst of all time. injecting vampire blood to become one. Mr. Hartnett became Superman. killed the vampire leader in the most awful way he could probably think of. the other vamps start to go away. the couple: Eben and Stella climb up a mountain. Eben faces the sun to die. THIS IS AWFUL! TERRIBLE! HORRIBLE! SUCKS!

derrick

Posted 493 days ago

This movie was great until that stupid injection.What were they thinking? Re shoot the end and you have a masterpiece.

GoreHound

Posted 493 days ago

Great vampire movie, I didn't think I'd live to see the day when they made vampires scary again and I'm only 22. Anyone who likes horror and blood should not miss this movie

fartbox

Posted 497 days ago

mike best---- this move was awsome... i mean i would buy saw IV to see the special features on how they did the special make-up effects and stuff.... which is why i am gonna buy 30 days of night on dvd.... im sure the special features alone are going to be killer... this movie was really good

LDB

Posted 505 days ago

Very slow, hardly any action, and the lack of back-story killed any hope this movie had.

Beshem

Posted 512 days ago

Hands down great movie!!! Better than some of the other crap tha Hollywood is doing and definitely a better take on Vamps. Savage and merciless, unlike the rich clothes and *** like you see in others (i.e. John Carpenter's Vampires and the 2 that are based off of Anne Rice books)

Ron

Posted 524 days ago

Oops! Expain=Explain.

Ron

Posted 524 days ago

I liked this movie. It was a very different type of vampires, which I liked. And just a very good vampire movie, that I've been waiting for a very long time.I just wish it gave more detail, like more background on the vampires. You could only get a little bit of pieces on the group of vampies. I hope theirs a sequel or even a prequel of this movie, to expain more about the vampires past or their future since their leader is dead, or even just both put together.

mike best

Posted 532 days ago

but is it worth a dvd buy? im getting saw 4 tuesday but should i pick this up later this month

JAKE

Posted 549 days ago

Josh Harnett [SPOILER REMOVED] I Saw it coming

Brian

Posted 561 days ago

I see smoking crack is the rage again. This movie was by far one of the biggest disappointments of the year Horror wise. The plot holes and Acting ruined it for me. I mean there is one scene where it says day 3 and then skips all the way to like day 15-17. What the *** happened in between. I mean throw in a simulated sex scene for 2 minutes for christ sake if your running out of story, I mean the wife is very hot so what's the problem. The only good and ENTERTAINING part in the movie is when the vampires feed on the townsfolk, very *** ed up, but cool. For anyone that wants to see this movie, wait till DVD.

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