Chapter One - Second Film: 30 Days of Night (2007)
Are you afraid of the dark? Or are you afraid of what hides inside it? Our second film in Splatter Fest is 30 Days of Night (2007), one of the few supernatural films in the roster for this time period. Pitched as 'an actually scary vampire movie', this film meets and exceeds that bar by a mile. The film itself is a well shot, well acted gem of the early 00's. It releases a year out before Twilight had the genre steeped in young romance. The story pertains around feral acting vampires begin to lay seige to a town in northern Alaska, where the sun has set and will not rise for a month. Imagery of brutal, bloody attacks and blood splattering across snowy streets makes this an easy include into the 'splatter' genre, yet the film still has a structure that pulls from older films with a vampire mythos. There's a Renfield type character, a rank and file amongst the blood-sucking fiends, and even the implications of their existence going back a long, long time. But wh...
