Kiele Sanchez as Stella in 30 Days of Night, DVD for Halloween 2010

Kiele Sanchez Sexy Scene, 30 Days of Night

Dark Days is the sequel to 30 Days of Night and is loosely (and when I say that I mean very loosely) based on the graphic novel Dark Days. It is often unfair to compare and contrast with the books a film is based on but I find it difficult not to with this. There are obvious reasons why it is only loosely based – after all 30 Days of Night (the movie) deviated from the original but there are further changes.

The Attack
So, before I go on a spoiler spree – for those who don’t want that I will say that Ben Ketai cut his teeth on the short presentation 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust and does what he can with an obviously reduced budget. He certainly proves himself a better director of action sequences than Davis Slade but script, story and effects leave us with a product that perhaps floats below average, all told…

Burning under sunlamps
Okay spoiler time. We begin with a recap of the events in Barrow, with a new Stella (Kiele Sanchez). Aspects of the original are shown along with Stella replaced. Stella is now trying to make the world listen and has come to LA because a letter from a mysterious correspondent called Dane (Ben Cotton, Blood Ties and Stan Helsing) has suggested a presence of vampires in the city. Stella is giving a talk on what really happened at Barrow, people laugh when she mentions vampires but she has a surprise. Sunlamps – these fry the two vampires in the audience causing a panic. Stella is arrested.

She is in an interrogation room when Agent Norris (Troy Ruptash) comes in and tells her that no-one will buy her clever little hoax. He unhooks the camera and then tells her that the bodies are gone and that he would kill her but someone else feels that such an act would draw too much attention. The threat is clear and Stella heads for her motel.

Hunters
She gets into her room and is faced with three strangers – Amber (Diora Baird), Paul (Rhys Coiro) and Todd (Harold Perrineau). These are hunters sent by Dane and I was unsure as to this set up. In the graphic Stella had set the group of hunters up herself and this indicated a lot about the character that had occurred in the intervening year. Anyway they suggest no-one will believe Stella and Amber wanders off for a smoke, disgusted with the supposed new recruit’s attitude. (more…)