The spare comic 30 Days Of Night remains notable mainly for Steve Niles' ingenious premise of vampires feasting in the permanent midnight of northernmost Alaska, and for the graphic intensity of Ben Templesmith's drawings, which risk incoherence in the service of creepy impressionism. Director David Slade, who cut his teeth on music videos before making his feature debut with the two-person psychodrama Hard Candy, takes the film adaptation halfway home by getting the look exactly right. The charcoal grays and blacks of Templesmith's illustrations are achieved through eerie desaturation, fitting for a town that has much of its color drained from the neck. However, the film runs into problems when trying to expand a concise, gut-punch of a story into an ungainly two-hour narrative, bogged down by perfunctory elements that take the edge off the material.
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