DVD Collection #2: 30 Days of Night (spoilers)

30 Days of Night, which I'm watching right now, takes place in a small small town in a cold cold place, where all of a sudden, all of the cell phones are stolen and melted down...all of the dogs are killed...all of the power goes out...and all of the residents are preparing to leave for the "dark time"...the 30 days of night when everything shuts down and you can't leave until the sun comes back up. Oh...and they ban booze. A place I wouldn't want to live in for all the money in the world.

The sheriff's department has more police than they could possibly need, but they need all the help they can get when a band of vampires shows up to own the town. I personally would have known there were vampires coming with all the blood and darkness. If you live here and don't expect vampires, you're not that bright. Oh...and the sherrif and his wife are estranged...and she's trapped in the town, of course.

The vampires are creepy, fast, and they scream a lot. You never find out where they come from...which I like. Leaves a little mystery, which makes them a little scarier. And of course, they're just hungry and they don't actually want to turn people. The worst kind of vampire...one that doesn't speak English or negotiate. And the leader has a great haircut and a pressed suit.

So the hero is the sheriff, and he leads the good people of deserted ice land from place to place to hide from the baddies. And then he remembers that there are only a few ways to kill a vampire...a stake through the heart, chopping off its head...oh wait, that's a zombie, or letting them get baked by the sun. OOOOOOORRR, by turning himself into one of them, by injecting hiself with an infected person's blood, to save the woman he loves and becoming stronger than the leader of the vampires! After he kicks the leader's ass...he lets all the other vampires go so they can come back next year and hangs out with his woman until the sun comes up and fades away into the sunset...literally. Why didn't he just wait until the sun came up if it was coming up so soon? Because that would have made for a boring ass movie.

WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE: I never would have been in this deserted and cold place in the first place...a place that has 30 days of straight darkness. See how foolish it is to live in a place like that? It's where vampires live.