If there’s one genre that will never recover from the countless (inevitable) clichés then it would be the horror genre. You either go for cult, classic stuff or for cheap entertainment. Only a few titles hover somewhere in between and as far as I’m concerned that’s where the interesting stuff is. Judging by its rather tantalizing trailer, the prospects for 30 Days of Night by one David Slade - yes the man from Hard Candy - looked rather good. And in fact, the first half hour was very promising, yet Slade made the fundamental mistake (of the type I’d like to refer to as The Village-syndrome) of giving away too much of the scary vampires. (more…)
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