30 Days of Night: Dark Days, Silly Suckers!
30 Days of Night: Dark Days, Kiele Sanchez
“30 Days of Night: Dark Days”. Silly suckers! Here’s the lowdown:
Synopsis: After surviving the incidents in Barrow, Alaska, Stella (that chick) relocates to Los Angeles, where she intentionally attracts the attention of the local vampire population in order to avenge the death of her husband, Gary Numan.
Here’s hoping that Sony will follow through with its plans to produce the filmic third and final chapter of the trilogy based on Steve Niles’ 2004 graphic novel 30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow. Dark Days leaves the possibility wide open, and while the sequel’s stunning finale is most satisfying, there are threads left to be tied. This reviewer would like to see the final knot.
Stars: Kiele Sanchez, Rhys Coiro and Diora Baird
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30 Days of Night: Dark Days, DVD Review
30 Days of Night: Dark Days
Steppin’ to 30 Days of Night starring Josh Hartnet and Melissa George was a horror smash hit and it was only a matter of time before a sequel followed and it came under the title, 30 Days of Night-Dark Days.
The film would follow Melissa Georges character Stella however the director wanted a new actress to play the role. Initially it was sited they wanted someone younger and with more of a name to play the role but they ended up with Kiele Sanchez. I know who! She apparently was in ‘Lost’, ‘Samantha Who’ and is currently starring in ‘The Glades’. However she is no Melissa George.
Dark Days is set in LA so doesn’t quite have the same feeling of threat to it. It follows the character of Stella as she tries to expose Vampires to the world. A group of renegade Vampire hunters recruit her to go after Lilith, the Vampire Queen.
This plot-line was reminiscent of the Borg Queen in Star Trek, she comes out of nowhere and is the brains of the operation. When Stella discovers there is a new ship setting sail to the Arctic Circle for the next 30 days of night she brings the fight to them.
As a Vampire film the feature isn’t bad, L Words/Vampire Diaries ‘Mia Kirshner’ brings an element of horror to the film as Lilith but Dark Days works more as an action movie than a horror. Stella is now an ass kicking femme fatale in the same vein as Milla Jovovich Alice in Resident Evil.
That is why as a sequel to 30 Days it doesn’t fit. It’s no longer ordinary people fighting for their lives but seasoned hunters out for revenge.
The film is well worth watching but as a franchise movie it pales in comparison to the first installment.
Apparently there is going to be a third as they initially always wanted it to be a trilogy and that working title is ‘Return to Barrow’
It went straight to DVD in the States so expect the same here and can be currently viewed on line.
by candlemansa, Gaycork.com
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Kiele Sanchez, Diora Baird and Rhys Coiro talking 30 Days Of Night: Dark Days, Interviews.
Kiele Sanchez, Diora Baird talking 30 Days Of Night: Dark Days
Kiele Sanchez, Diora Baird and Rhys Coiro On 30 Days Of Night: Dark Days, Interviews.
Having already chatted to director and co-writer Ben Ketai, graphic novelist and co-writer Steve Niles and producer JR Young about their vamp sequel 30 Days Of Night: Dark Days, we thought we’d give the cast a chance to spill their guts, so to speak.
Were you guys fans of the original 30 Days film and/or graphic novel before signing on for the sequel?
Diora Baird: I was never really into comics, but I loved the first movie. Loved it.
Kiele Sanchez: I’m a fan of both. I mean, I’m not like a graphic novel geek. I thought the first movie was awesome.
Rhys Coiro: I actually haven’t seen the first movie, to be totally honest. But I loved the comic books. I’m a comic book nerd.
Rhys, you’ve done a lot of character work but in this movie you’re more in action-hero mode. Is that a direction you’re interested in taking your career?
Rhys Coiro: It’s certainly fun to shoot guns and if anyone tries to tell you it’s not, they’re lying to you. Ultimately, it’s the same thing from one project to another. I mean, we’re telling stories. I don’t really know what an action hero is. What constitutes an action hero?
Kiele, you’re taking over the role of Stella, which was played by another actor in the original. Did you study her performance at all or did you want to start fresh?
Kiele Sanchez: I watched the first movie and that sort of is Stella’s backstory. I watched it a lot actually. I didn’t feel compelled to emulate her performance or to take some things from what the original Stella had created because it’s a year later and this Stella is very, very changed from the experience. It gave me licence to follow the journey that she was on presently, which was completely different. (more…)
Fantastic Fest 2010 Review: '30 Days of Night: Dark Days', Starring Kiele Sanchez, Diora Baird
Kiele Sanchez in '30 Days of Night: Dark Days'
As the film opens we learn that the only survivor of the Alaskan vampire massacre that we all enjoyed in the first film is one Stella Oleson (Sanchez here, Melissa George in Part 1). Of course nobody believes her story of how Barrow was destroyed by a pack of ravenous (and very opportunistic) vampires, but Stella is about to deliver a very unique lecture. Let’s just say she “outs” some vampire spies in very clever fashion (but neglects to bring a camera), and is then forced to hide out in Los Angeles while the local vampires hunt and harass her.
From this point on, 30 Days of Night: Dark Days goes quickly downhill. What starts with a nifty gimmick promptly devolves into a 17th-generation Blade sequel that would probably feel more at home on the Syfy Channel than pulsing through your over-qualified blu-ray player. Although certainly not without a few merits (director Ben Ketai has done fine short films and could probably deliver a slam-bang horror film given a halfway-decent budget), this disappointing follow-up fails to capitalize on even the most obvious of options. (more…)
30 Days of Night: Dark Days, Sexy Screen Captures
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