30 Days of Night

30 Days of Night - in which vampires who hate to be rushed descend onto a town without a lick of sunlight for a whole month. Barrow, Alaska is located so close to the North Pole that it doesn't get normal sun exposure, and, this is true, every November - December the town goes dark for over a month. The vampire part is not true, it is based on a comic book. So, Josh Hartnett is the Sheriff of this tiny town, and his ex-wife is in town for the day, I hope she doesn't miss the last plane out of town and have to spend the whole month there! Some ghoul has sabotaged all of the radios and escape devices, and then this whole clan of gypsy-looking vampires show up and, like, waste every human they can find. They have some weird, high-pitched screeches, and a mess of pointy fangs. The human smorgasbord goes on for the whole month, slowly picking off any characters remaining in the movie. No one is really interesting, the vampires are pretty cool. They do not speak English, and the DVD subtitles are so big and yellow and pixelated, ugh. Finally, Josh Hartnett figures out that he can only defeat the vampires and save his ex-wife by injecting dirty blood into his veins. To become a vampire, of course, to fight the other vampires. His Hartnett powers protect him from his vampyric bloodlust. He wins, of course, but also kind of dies.  The town is saved! And the sun rises on a minuscule percentage of the original population. Oh, well. Try again in Point Hope, Vampires!