30 Days of Night (2008)

Director: David Slade (Hard Candy [though I've never seen it])
Stars: Josh Hartnett (Sin City, 40 Days and 40 Nights)
Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma, The Punisher)
YesNoSoso: 1

This was a strange one, there were times when it was an emphatic zero and times it was an emphatic two. There were some awesomely stylized shots and some genuinely scary scenes, but the "bad guys" were wholly unbelievable and the ending was pretty stupid. I will say that the set up to the story is one of the best I'd ever heard, although that may include my anticipation of an explanation of which there was none. Basically its a horror movie that takes place Barrow, Alaska. The northern most town of the United States that experiences 30 days of night where the majority of the town leaves. And then some scary shit happens. Ben Foster turns in another truly talented performance (I've recently loved him in 3:10 to Yuma and "Freaks and Geeks"), but not enough to carry the movie. Plus he disappears rather abruptly. Just bad execution all around.
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