DVD Review: 30 Days Of Night: Dark Days, Examiner.com

DVD Review: 30 Days Of Night: Dark Days

30 Days Of Night: Dark Days, DVD Review: Examiner.com

Starring: Kiele Sanchez, Rhys Coiro, Harold Perrineau and Mia Kirshner
Directed by Ben Ketai

Despite being a source of revenue for actors and studios alike, the words “Straight-To-Video” have rarely produced anything worthwhile.

30 Days Of Night: Dark Days begins approximately 1 year after the attacks in Barrow, Alaska with Stella Oleson(Kiele Sanchez replacing Melissa George from the original) touring across the nation trying to tell her side of the story and what really happened those 30 Days in Alaska. She is of course dismissed as a quack and her story branded a hoax. That is until a rebel group of like minded survivors track her down in Los Angeles to present her with the opportunity to extract revenge upon the vampire queen responsible for all of their pain.

Replacing original cast members is never a good thing, but the semi-recognizable faces of the cast (Coiro & Kirshner have been seen in Entourage, and the L Word respectively, with Sanchez & Perrineau both veterans of Lost) do a passable job in keeping us interested for 92 minutes.

Director Ketai in his first feature length outing, does alright in recreating certain visual styles from the first film, helping the viewer bridge between the two films, but also does a fair amount of plagiarism borrowing from directors like James Cameron and Neil Marshall especially during a sequence towards the end of the film, that was reminiscent of either “Aliens” or “The Decent”.

Ultimately this film is for the rabid fans of the first one, but you might be better off tracking down the original graphic novels on which both films were based.

Available for rent and/or purchase at all major retailers like Amazon.com

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