Monday 5 October 2015

30 Days Of Night : Dark Days (2010) 3/10

Starring : Kiele Sanchez, Rhys Coiro, Diora Baird, Harold Perrineau, Mia Kirshner
Director : Ben Katai
Running Time : 93 mins

A year following the vampire attack on the small Alaskan community of Barrow, Stella Oleson (Sanchez) has been trying to convince the world of the existence of vampires. He works come to the attention of the FBI, and also of a small group who believe her story and have a plan to destroy Lilith (Kirshner), the vampire responsible for the attack.

Holy hell, this was awful. Given that it is such an interesting concept of having vampires attacking at a time when daylight and salvation is a month away, this takes all of that fun and throws it in the bin, transferring the location to Los Angeles of all places. Recasting the lead just confused me as I couldn’t remember who Sanchez was supposed to be without looking it up, and even the wonderful acting ability of Katherine Isabelle – who basically plays ‘random victim number whatever’ here – couldn’t rescue this movie from its loss of the claustrophobic feeling the original managed to sustain so well.

You’ll like this if you liked : Queen Of The Damned



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