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30 Days of Night is the best vampire film ever made.
I believe this is just plain fact. The vampires in this movie are ruthless, scary, intelligent, and deadly.
They never shown an ounce of mercy, and they would have a habit of torturing their victims before drinking their blood.
It's amazing how well executed this film was.
30 Days of Night follows a small town located in middle of nowhere in the snow, and they become targets of a huge group of vampires looking for a feast.
The worst part is that the vampires are going to stay in the town for 30 days. The sun won't reveal itself for a full month, so the remaining survivors are stuck with these deadly creatures.
Before the small human group becomes the focus of the film, one of the best massacre horror sequences takes place before the main conflict of the movie. The town is completely overtaken by the vampires, picked off one by one. The gore and fear the viewer is exposed to is awesome, and I loved how the vampires attacked their victims like literal monsters.
The vampires acted like they haven't had a feast in a long time, and it was executed creepily by the vampire actors. The roar they give out after and before killing everyone is uncanny, it's obvious that these creatures are not human; and that they don't belong in our world.
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Another story element that made this film great was when several of the main characters discover a disturbing event that had taken place before the vampires arrived in their town. They found a pile of destroyed phones, that appeared to have belonged to a huge group of people. This was one of the few signs that the vampires had murdered another town before finding them.
I loved the ambiguity of this scene, because it is the perfect build up to what the viewer will not see coming. We are now aware that something weird happened, but we don't have all the answers. We are left in the dark until the real threat shows up to the town. I love how there is no sign of what the film is going to be based on.
We have a small hint given to us through a creepy character that arrives to the town; sort of like a 'human compass' for the vampires to find their next feeding ground. He keeps on warning the group that something horrible is going to happen, but he never outright says what kind of threat it truly is.
It's a nice foreshadow, and their arrival makes the film so much more dreadful for me as a viewer. The town didn't stand a chance against something so evil; how few people were able to survive is insane.
30 Days of Night has the best vampires, and I have not seen any other vampire that could possibly beat these versions of the vampires. They aren't even attractive like other horror media has portrayed vampires. They are plain scary, and they don't bother to hide their true nature.
Now that is a true piece of vampire cinema!
Thank you for reading!
Emy Quinn
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