30 DAYS OF NIGHT: Blood Trails
© Ghost House Pictures
Mania Grade: A
Rated: Unrated
Cast: Andrew Laurich, Dani Owen
Writer: Ben Ketai
Director: Victor Garcia
Distributor: Ghost House Pictures
Original Year of Release: 2007
Rated: Unrated
Cast: Andrew Laurich, Dani Owen
Writer: Ben Ketai
Director: Victor Garcia
Distributor: Ghost House Pictures
Original Year of Release: 2007
30 DAYS OF NIGHT: Blood Trails
By: Tim JansonReview Date: Thursday, September 13, 2007
Well I’ve never reviewed a thirteen minute film before but there’s a first time for everything. As reported previously on Mania.com, Ghost House Pictures and Fear.Net are putting out a seven episode prelude to the big screen “30 Days of Night” feature film which opens in October. The mini-series will be available beginning today, September 13, on Fear.Net/Video On Demand. Each episode runs approximately 3 – 5 minutes in length. Having watched the first four episodes last night, my first couple of thoughts are: Frantic pace and one hell of a lot of blood! Spoiler alert from here forward!
The mini-series is set in New Orleans and centers on a drug addict named George. George runs jobs for a Judith, a vampire hunter. George is trying to make enough money to get himself and his girlfriend, Jenny, out of the slum they are living in. George is sent to receive a data disc from a man in a back alley, yet when he arrives, he finds the disk smashed on the ground and the man lying near death in a pool of his own blood. In his dying moments, the man writes a series of numbers in blood on George’s arm. These numbers allow a couple of computer hackers who are also working for Judith to break into the Vampire’s network. They discover the vampires are using the internet to coordinate an attack and discover a date of November 18th, although they don’t recognize the significance of the date. It will matter little as the hackers won’t live long enough to do anything further and George finds himself literally running for his life from the vampires.
Director Victor Garcia has certainly managed to capture the essence of Steve Niles’ vampires. If you never read the graphic novels, these are not the sauve, sexy vampires of an Ann Rice novel, but truly horrific creatures with rows of razor sharp teeth and hands which end in deadly claws. Their visages are quite something to behold! Obviously with a medium like this there isn’t much time for introductions or character development. The action starts from the opening frames and barely lets up until the end. You can’t make much of a call on the performances as they were short and none except for the George character are on-screen for more than a couple of minites.
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