David Slade, director of the upcoming vampire movie 30 Days of Night, told reporters at a special preview screening that the movie appealed to him because it made bloodsuckers scary again. The movie, based on Steve Niles' graphic novel of the same name, takes place in Barrow, Alaska, where the sun sets for a month in the winter, and vampires invade the town. "I was a fan of the graphic novel to begin with," Slade (Hard Candy) told reporters after the movie screened at Sony Pictures Entertainment studios in Culver City, Calif., on Sept. 25. "I could see, like, the ... potential in it. But, also, ... it kind of went to my sensibilities. It's actually a hard, bleak nihilistic story. And it was scary. It was a scary vampire movie. ... I wanted to do a scary vampire movie." The movie stars Josh Hartnett as Eben Oleson, the sheriff of the tiny Alaska hamlet, and Melissa George as his estranged wife, Stella, who find themselves and their fellow residents cut off from the rest of the world when a pack of savage vampires invades the town as night falls for a month.
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