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Clip from 30 DAYS OF NIGHT!
Hey folks, Harry here... I'm so anxious to see 30 DAYS OF NIGHT. Moriarty has seen it, but he's been busy writing like a bat out of hell, and just hasn't gotten around to putting his review out... or maybe he's under embargo - whatever the case - I know he liked it - but that's about all I can get out of him. The once great EVIL GENIUS has been reduced to showing his baby the IRON MAN trailer a billion times and now that there's a new spot for WALL-E.... we can all see the direction his life is going. Blissful fatherhood. BAH!
I don't know when I'm going to get to see this thing, I'm hoping I see it before release, but if not - I'll gladly pay for this one. I loved the book, but more than that, I loved this director's first film HARD CANDY - and the idea of this being the first great cool horror flick from Raimi's Genre Production Shingle... well - that has me giddy. Love the look of this clip, check it out...
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and I used to hate Josh Harnett too.
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those vampires are cold mofos.
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Maybe it's a good film anyway, but the trailer and this clip doesn't look too great. (Maybe I gotta know the graphic novel to appreciate it.)
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with or without Bruce, with a bdget of like $12.00.
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I liked the original, '30 DAYS OF DAY'. Although I gotta admit, in terms of Vampires it was a bit of a non-event.
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you know, where the vampires are evil undead assholes and not just another "species".
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Alaska. Winter. Nighttime. Yet you still can't see the clouds of breath. A pet peeve of mine. Seriously, how hard is it to turn the heat off on the set?
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I was expecting most of the vampires to look more gruesome like that first one. But the atmosphere still works.
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Thanks for that.
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Every secret screening at Fantastic Fest was rumoured to be this movie. I will definately see it when it comes out.
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I agree actually. It would have been a great effect in the movie to see the humans breath, but you couldn't see the vampires.
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When did tinting everything blue become the standard for night?
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I swear, this will teach ya'll not to loudly mention any great ideas in a public setting where they can be swiped from you. Back in summer 2001, the Red Monkey (Google him), Cousin Mike and I were sitting inside the Starbucks in Natomas Plaza. We were sitting in our usual chairs and discussing the best way to adapt "I Am Legend" to the screen...and on the subject of "how not to adapt 'I Am Legend', note the upcoming Will Smith disaster of a film"...The Red Monkey then goes off on his idea for a kick ass vampire flick which would be to set it in an Inuit Village near the North Pole where there's a month of darkness and the vampires descend upon the town and lay siege on the residents. The Red Monkey was rather loud with this idea since some of the cute female baristas were also involved in the conversation. Well, flash forward another year and then not only do we all learn of the comic "30 Days of Night" but also word that it was being optioned for a film adaptation. Moral of the story...keep any ideas to yourself until you've actually committed them to paper and copyrighted them so you can go all Harlan Ellison on whomever's ass swipes your idea and passes it off as their own original work.
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... is WAY better than that NON scene. Seriously check it out. For non-u.s. types (like myself) it isn't hard to crack the "restricted" security check.
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Fo' real, we had some previews ovah here and the word is not good.
Obviously, the beginning is ok and dynamic, but the rest is abysmal.
I Liked the concept, but the comic itself was not as good as Harry's trying to convince us.
The writing was groan inducing but Templesmith'pencils/paintings looked fookin' great and moody.
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...not to discredit your conversation, but almost every young horror geek or hell geeks in general have all idly wondered aloud probably at some point in their lives "why vamps don't just go north where the nights last forever..." I would hardly consider your friend to be the first brainchild of this epiphany. The maker of the comic "30 days of night" just happened to pen it first.
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Hyuk hyuk hyuk.
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...but it sure smells good!
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bwahahaha...I was reminded of that quote by this talkback. I once told a waitress back in the early nineties that they should make a movie about the Titanic sinking. Where the hell are my royalties, James Cameron?!!
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I detect an overabundance of positivity with nothing valid to base it on.
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When will we be rid of this shitty actor?
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my colon had to be placed under intensive medical care afterwards.
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I remember an old Superman comic that had a bad guy in the back of a car getting chased by Supes and he exclaimed "Oh my God!" when he noticed he was being chased, to which Supes replied "No, just me."
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is making me think this movie is going to suck. i was excited when i thought it was some indie thing, when you cram it down our throats in a misguided effort to get us excited it has the opposite effect. in this day and age people want to feel like they are discovering something for themselves, not that they are going and doing what they were told they are gonna enjoy.
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I had the same idea a couple of years before the comic came out, I live in Iceland and we have winters like that. Then the comic came out and then later the Swedish film Frostbitten came out which has very similar idea. I never heard of Red Monkey and I'm sure the Sweeds haven't either. Don't know about the comic people though. Hmmm.
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wheres the AICN article for that?!
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...and yes, Ghosthouse finally made a good movie. The film is a fucking masterpiece, even better than the graphic novel. Makes up for all the shitty movies we've suffered through this year.
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...won't be drawn by Ben Templesmith. I may be in the minority but I absolutely hated the artwork he did for 30DoN, to the point where I didn't even want to finish the book. Just looked like someone added a bunch of photoshop effects over a jr. high school student's half finished notebook margin sketches. The story didn't exactly knock me out, either. Buncha vampires in the arctic attack a village... I liked the Tales from the Crypt version of that story better than this padded out, overhyped, underdrawn comic book. I say thee MEH.
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I even beat Cosmo Kramer and Kraymerica to that idea. Beat that, Neuman!
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...not to mention that bastardo Alan Greenspan. What a wanker. I bet he backs HD DVD.
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well could they?
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A toaster oven, an oven mit, my uncle Mitt. I'm telling you anything. Didn't you understand from First Contact how they tried to assimilate Data, they can do it simply by trying to mind-fuck someone, although with varying results.
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please.
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Always gotta go with the originals...
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I wasn't overly impressed with Hard Candy but you could see the guy could put a movie together and I like Snow and Vampires so looks cool!
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. . . or at least someone should do one w/ his crew. I love how you actually see a movie set under a real friggin' night sky in Collateral and Miami Vice(sorry to bring up that turd). I agree that this blue tint has got to go.
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B/c, if you remember from First Contact (yes, I'm referencing that again) the main Borg "chick" was kinda doable, in the "I've drank enough rum to watch that Caveman show" way, so, since there is a sense of some emotion in the Cybermen (and they are men), the Borg chick could possibly use seduction to assimilate them in a pseudo-mind-fuck way.
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Oct 02, 2007 7:49:39 PM CDT
The thing that has me most excited...
by the rondo hatton blues explosion
First off, I'm an old school, undead, evil fucker from beyond the grave vampire fan. 30 Days Of Night and it's sequels are like mother's milk to me. So a few months ago when I heard that Steve Niles was at Heroes Con in Charlotte i was all kinds of psyched.
I was lucky enough to catch Steve when no one was around, so in true fanboy fashion I launched into a fevered rant about how he had brought the scary back to a genre that Anne Rice,her clones and the entire mopey, oh so fucking tragic vampire/model herd had damn near killed.
Throughout it all he was very, very cool, answering all my questions and even engaging me in debate over the best vampire movies to date, despite probably having to go through this kind thing all the time.
Here's the kicker. At the time, I hadn't even seen the first trailer yet, so when he pulled out a dvd player from under the table and said "check this shit out", I about pissed myself with glee.
Let me tell you, watching the trailer for one of my most anticipated movies of the year with the guy who started it all? Not a bad experience.
The thing that really sold it for me, though, was his excitement. He was so wired up, you couldn't help be thrilled for him. Even with the obvious changes and liberties thet took with the movie, he was like a kid on christmas morning. The look of unrepentant joy on his face was better than any review I could read.
And that, more so than my love for the books or the cool look of what I've seen so far is what's going to have me, custom prosthetic fangs and all, cheering on the evil bastards opening night.
Yeah, I know good triumphs, but I can dream, can't I?
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(It's the modern way)
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As someone who has not been a fan of the projects Sam Raimi has chosen to produce, even I have to admit that this movie looks FUCKING INSANELY AWESOME. I could go either way on Hartnett and Melissa George but I am a HUGE fan of Danny Huston and any movie with Ben Foster playing a dude named The Stranger has my money on opening night. Slade fucking owned Hard Candy and I expect this slick piece of entertainment to bring the thrills and chills as well.
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I hope this is good, has a low budget feel and is character driven. We need a good vampire movie, there have been so many shitty ones. This will have a big opening weekend and probably fall 70% each weekend till its gone unless its got something that makes you tell all your bro's and ho's at work to go see it.. I am hoping for that. I'll be seeing it opening weekend.
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...Melissa George!heavy sigh....
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...works for me, as it brought us Kate Beckinsdale in skin-tight "leather" and spandex.
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I second (third, fourth?) that comment! It can set a mood if done properly, sparingly.Some crap SciFi "original" flick last week (Species #42 I think) had so overused the tinting that it was impossible to spend more than a minute viewing when I surfed in. On the other hand, it pushed me right out before the crappy flick could inflict any more damage. Maybe all Crappy flicks on SciFi should be tinted in a crapia brown (slight darker than sepia) so you can develop a fast, tint-based channel changing reflex....
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...the comic sucked. I thought the premise was awesome, but with the bad art and bad story pacing, if felt that they just came up with a cool idea, but not a good way to execute it. I always thought that it would make a better movie or novel. As for the movie, I've loved everything I've seen so far. Can't wait.
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I agree that we badly need a good vampire flick. It's been far too long, and I really want another one!
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..fuckin' a rights, i'm there. didn't know this was SLADE'S next flic, i really enjoyed HARD CANDY. i LOVE "one location" movies, LIFEBOAT, THE THING, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE (not really one location) et al......oh yeah, SAMSQUANCH, nice BUBBLES moniker!!!!
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Go watch The Thing again.
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It test screened here in Los Angeles a few months back. It had some pacing problems and there's little character development but it's a fun ride. The vampires are more like ravenous animals and only the main bad guy shown in the above clip has any dialogue. I'd like to know more about their origins but I've never read the graphic novel so I'm not sure if their history was explained in the book. They just show up and start tearing everything to pieces. I will say it's definitely the best film Ghost House has released so far.
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about how Hollywood should remake everything.
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*Possible spoilers* I think this looks pretty good, but what you described sounds close to the book. There is basically no character development, and you never find out where the vampires are from, who they actually are, etc. I agree with the other people here who said the book's concept is cool but could have been executed far better. Still, I'm looking forward to the movie! Did it include the 'vampire hunters' that the book had? They were in it very, very briefly and I'm assuming they were something that would have been omitted.
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I don't remember anything about vampire hunters in the movie, though the survivors do fight back so we're treated to some nasty bloodsucker deaths. I did see the first chapter in a series of online shorts that were produced by Ghost House as a prequel to the movie and some of the characters that were introduced seem to have a knowledge of the creatures. I think they might be the guys you're talking about (you can view the shorts over at Fearnet.com). My main gripe with the movie is that it didn't have any real sense of time. The characters were supposed to be hiding out from the creatures over an entire month but it felt like the events were unfolding over a handful of days. The only physical sign that we're given to help us understand just how long they've been in the town is Josh Hartnett's facial hair, which just gets a little more scraggly by the end of it.
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I'll check those online shorts out. I use the term 'vampire hunters' loosely because again, they were given no real explanation. Still, maybe they feature in some of the follow up comics which I haven't read -- someone else who's read them let me know! And the sense of time problem you cite is also present in the book. Kind of skips over the bulk of the 30 days. Still definitely checking this out though, especially seeing as Stuart Beattie was involved with the screenplay. And Danny Huston as a vampire intrigues me.
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is a friend of mine - I cant watch it - she seems so helpless!!!
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How old and tired. How many fucking times have we sat through that EXACT same fucking exchange between random helpless victim and oh-so-badass-yet-kinda-gay-looking vampire? Victim: Help! Please! God!!! *Gay vampire moves in close* Gaypire: "There issss nooo Goooooddddd.....*chomp* Think of something new, you fucking hacks!
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The vampire hunters do figure in the later books, at least in Dark Days and Return To Barrow.
*BIG ASS BOOK, POSSIBLE MOVIE SPOILER*
After Eben kills himself, Stella forms a team to expose and exterminate the remaining vampires. She also enlists the help of the voodoo woman who was tracking them in 30 Days.
*END SPOILER*
Personally, I always got the feeling that 30 Days started as a larger work, but got cut into bits in publishing. That's just speculation of course, since I didn't have the presence of mind to ask Niles when I had the chance. My reasoning is that the first book was a bit thin. Cool, but thin. -
Oct 03, 2007 4:14:28 PM CDT
"...but he's been busy writing like a bat out of hell."
by childe roland
Is Mori doing a movie musical adaptation of Meat Loaf's first album? Because, weird as it sounds, I'd kind of like to see that. Not as much as I want to see a solid adaptation of 30 Days, which is what we seem to have shaping up here, but I'm intrigued. (disclaimer: I know that's not what Harry meant, but this is how cool rumors get started and production companies are often desperate for ideas, as evidenced by, well, most of the TV to movie adaptations we've seen recently. So it was worth a shot).
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