30 Days of Night

Barrow, Alaska is exactly 201 miles from the Alaskan Pipeline.

During the blizzard, when the group is moving from the attic to the general store, the wind is raging, yet the power lines are not moving.

No ice has accumulated on the lines, so they aren't frozen solid.

In the first scene where Eben walks into the sheriff's office and takes off his hat, his hair goes from sticking up to well combed to sticking up again.

Alaska has no sheriffs; all law enforcement is handled by municipal police, borough police, and the Alaska State Police.

The North Slope Borough Police Department handles law enforcement in Barrow.

Everyone is eager to get the "last flight out" before the airport closes down for 30 days.

The airport may close for occasional storms, but it never shuts down for 30 days.

Alaska Airlines flies to Barrow at least once a day all year.

The sign for Barrow lists a population of 563.

The town actually has more than 4,000 people.

In the diner, Lucy tells the stranger that no alcohol is allowed during the 30 day break.

Barrow is a "damp" town all year; alcohol sales are not legal, but consumption and import are.

In the film, Barrow is bright and sunny one day, then completely dark for the next 67 days.

In reality, the days get shorter and shorter until the sun no longer appears over the horizon.

Twilight appears every day, between noon and 4:00 pm, until the sun once again peeks over the horizon.

The entire town is on fire near the end, but the snow does not melt.

The color of Stella's eyebrows changes throughout the movie.

Some vehicles do not have license plates.

Toward the end, when Jake looks out the window, blood from the first few days of vampire attacks is still visible on the ground, despite several days of snowfall.

The satellite dishes on the communications building are pointed slightly up.

Satellites orbit near the equator, so satellite dishes in Alaska point horizontally, or slightly down.

For that reason, it's not likely that the characters would have satellite phones.

Josh Hartnett grows facial hair over the course of the movie, but no one else does, including his 15-year-old brother.

Most indoor and street scenes are well-lit, despite having no sunlight or electricity.

Most buildings have generators, including the sheriff station and the diner.

It's winter in Alaska, but the actors' breath is not visible in most scenes.

UV rays are harmful to plants, so grow lamps don't emit any more UV light than regular fluorescent lights.

Either the light should've killed the plants, or the vampires should've suffered burns from normal lighting.

The bag of marijuana at the jail is actually filled with black pipe cleaners.

When John Riis is sitting at his table, and the camera pans to his wife Ally in the kitchen.

Snow falls past the window behind her, but none falls past the window behind him.

After Barrow, Alaska's, winter darkness, the sun rises in the south.

At the end of the movie, the sun rises over the Arctic Ocean, which is to the north.

The vampires set the town on fire so nobody will know what happened.

However, the flipped cars, the heads on pikes, and the fact that most of the town's residents obviously didn't die in the fire would seem very strange to anyone investigating the fire.

The Bald headed vampire that dies in the factory can be seen with the mass of vampires after his death.

When Eben is about to inject himself with Billy's blood, he says that Riis and Carter were bitten, but they were actually scratched.

Riis was scratched during his struggle with the vampires; the mark on Carter's face is clearly a scratch rather than a bite.

Also, Billy was changing right after being bitten by Arvin, which implies Eben was wrong about the bitten being able to retain their humanity for a while longer.

A good-looking, arty vampire film that fails to shock or scare. A great premise, but no real story progression, so it doesn't involve the viewer.

Set in Barrow, Alaska, this next-generation zombie/vampire flick is about a strange group that visit during the month of darkness to terrorize the town. Ben Foster is once again chilling in his role (much like his stellar performance in 3:10 To Yuma) and the rest of the cast does a good enough job to not completely ruin the movie.

I have been wanting to see this movie for a long time because the premise was so interesting. I was hoping for something like the terrifying claustrophobia and geographic trap that made John Carpenter's The Thing so scary.

This flick, based on the Niles/Templesmith comic definitely had the potential to make a decent movie, but the vampires and their weird Klingon sounding dialogue just didn't work for me, kind of took away from the suspense and made them less menacing and decidedly goofy really. Less vampiric hissing would've been most welcome.

A bunch of vampires inplausibly cut of a town and proceed to attack the residents. When I was watching I wished it would end sooner than it did.

I sat down to watch "30 days of night" with a bit of a high expectation. The editors did a good job when they made the trailers.

I watched this years ago. Was not expecting much and loved it.

Nothing else to see here folks! A gang of Vampires attack an excluded Alaskan town during a full month with no sunlight.

30 days of night to start, is a decant horror movie in its own right with great effects, acting and in general works as a movie for the vampires. To elaborate on that ,in modern-day vampires have lost their horror status, twilight and vampire dairies are to blame here no doubt that, and unlike them here vampires are depicted us hunters and humans are shows as more or less helpless against them.