30 Days of Night author Steve Niles conceived of the story in the form of a comic, but after meeting a lack of interest in initial pitches, tried to pitch it as a film. When this did not work out, Niles shelved the idea until he showed it to IDW Publishing. IDW published the comic and Ben Templesmith provided the artwork. When Niles and his agent, Jon Levin, shopped the comic around again as a potential film adaptation, Niles found that the idea "went shockingly well," with Sam Raimi and Senator International picking up the property rights based on the original concept and Templesmith's unique mood and concepts for the vampires.
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30 Days of Night
(2007)2
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Runtime | 1 hr 53 min |
Budget | $30 000 000 |
Premiere: World | $75 513 170 October 19, 2007 |
USA | $39 569 000 |
Other countries | $35 944 170 |
Box Office – Budget | $45 513 170 |
Premiere: USA | $39 569 000 October 19, 2007 |
first day | $6 251 903 |
first weekend | $15 951 902 |
theaters | 2859 |
rollout | 77 days |
Digital: World | October 4, 2010 |
Parental Advisory | Frightening & Intense Scenes, Violence & Gore, Profanity, ... |
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After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires.Сast and Crew
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An anemic adaptation of Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith’s creepy comic series, 30 Days of Night is lighter on horror than it is on inadv...
30 Days of Night has a striking comic-book aesthetic and macabre sense of fun – if your sense of fun includes watching a vampire turned i...
I have pretty much reached my quota for vampire movies, but I shouldn’t hold that against this one. If you haven’t seen too many...
At its core, 30 Days of Night is a siege Western relocated to the frozen north.
30 Days is a proficient, atmospheric fangfest that does nothing you haven’t seen before but still does it passably well.
30 Days Of Night strikes out a nerve-jangling, bloodily unpredictable route to a truly stunning ending that’s well worth the w...
30 Days of Night is the well-paced and entertaining horror debut of Hard Candy director David Slade, who captures the coolest parts of Steve N...
Pushes things into violent, hardcore territory all too similar to Danny Boyle’s zombie-outbreak flick 28 Days Later and its 2007&nb...
Director David Slade is clearly of the opinion that more is more, so there is lots of blood, lots of gore, and lots of vampires in black coats stan...
It’s clear the film script has gone through the standard Hollywood death-of-a-thousand-rewrites wringer to emerge as shadow of its former sel...
Danny Huston is a dynamite villain, and Slade knows how to make audiences squirm in giddily uncomforting psychotic delight.
Adapted from the graphic novel by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith, 30 Days of Night is so dead serious you may feel the frequent urge to poke...
Even when it resorts to the hoariest clichés, 30 Days of Night still chills.
You could make a horror film with shocking story developments and creepy twists. Or, you could just have monsters with pointy teeth jump into...
This is a full-on, non-stop horror film. You’re either on the bus or off the bus. But if you are on, you’re hanging on with both h...
Even as stage blood flows like water, this wicked-mean vampire thriller pushes ahead with effective characters, a fantastic visual schema and ...
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The film is stupid and full of plot absurdities, but I still like it. It’s a pity that the authors couldn’t properly use their own idea of survival during the polar night – the passage of time is not felt at all here, and the heroes’ hiding from a gang of ghouls looked dubious. Translated to English
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A horror movie about vampires, filmed in the spirit of the genre zombie apocalypse. The idea and the setting are great, there are original moments, but for the most part the film is rather bland and filled with cliches. The vampires are gorgeous, some of the best I’ve seen. Translated to English