30 Days of Night: Dark Days starts with another brilliant premise to exploit–the polar (pun intended) opposite of the first film. Instead of setting the film in a land of eternal darkness, the filmmakers move the location to sunny Los Angeles. What a great idea–putting the vampires on the defensive instead of the offensive, forcing them into hiding in much the same way humans were forced into hiding in the first film. Considering it follows a ragtag group of vampire hunters, this could have been a great opportunity to explore a moral gray area–have the hunters leveled the playing field by forcing all the vampires to clump together in easily destroyed nests, or have they turned into the same sort of monsters?
Genre: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Actor: Kiele Sanchez, Rhys Coiro, Diora Baird
Director: Ben Ketai
Country: United States