30 Days of Night has a striking comic-book aesthetic

30 Days of Night has a striking comic-book aesthetic and macabre sense of fun if your sense of fun includes watching a vampire turned into pate in the gnashing metal jaws of a rubbish processor. The portrayal of small-town dynamics amid the loneliness of the frozen North is more artful than the frenzied, sloppy, shaky-camera fangwork. A refreshing buy dvd variation on the vampire movie formula, with a strong premise and a fair bit of splatter, but insufficient verve to last out its nearly two hour running time.