In a nutshell: For 30 days every winter, the isolated town of Barrow, Alaska is plunged into a state of complete darkness. It's a bitter time when most of the inhabitants head south.

This winter, a mysterious group of strangers appear: bloodthirsty vampires, ready to take advantage of the uninterrupted darkness to feed on the residents remaining in town.

Barrow's Sheriff Eben (Josh Hartnett), his estranged wife, Stella (Melissa George), and an ever-shrinking group of survivors must do anything they can to last until daylight in 30 Days Of Night.

This film is all geared up to chill your bones from the beginning. The isolation. The cold. The darkness. And the minimalistic creepy music.

In ‘good taste’ movies children and dogs should never be killed. Break this rule and the result is a horror movie. Sure enough the first movie corpses are sleigh dogs on the last day of sun for 30 days. The small town in the North of Alaska really doesn’t look very inviting.

Well, except to a vampire coven out on a jolly for the 30 days that the town is plunged into darkness. They can haunt the town without the danger of sunlight. As the town is entirely isolated as well, the vampire’s are not just out for feeding. They feed in the goriest, bloodiest way possible; terrorising the population.

Considering there are only 152 inhabitants (plus two ‘guests’) and the vampires don’t seem too bothered about saving food it appears very unlikely that anybody could last 30 days in the town.

Yet a few people do and even without a vampire expert they seem to know that they’ll be alright once the sun comes up again.

30 Days of Night was initially a three issue miniseries of horror comics written by Steve Niles, illustrated by Ben Templesmith and published by IDW Publishing in 2002. If you’ve read that you’ll know that the vampires’ senses are weakened by the cold, which enables some people to hide and escape them.

This isn’t made obvious in the film though. So apart from the unlikely timing and massive lack of storyline you get a straightforward horror film with blood and gore and not much mucking about. Well, it’s for audiences ages 15 and over, which will probably disappoint some of you. On the bright side, for horror fans this one will be amusing to watch. So have fun.