30 Days Of Night [2007]

CAST

• Josh Hartnett as Sheriff Eben Oleson
• Melissa George as Stella Oleson
• Danny Huston as Marlow
• Ben Foster as the Stranger
• Mark Boone Junior as Beau Brower
• Mark Rendall as Jake Oleson
• Amber Sainsbury as Denise
• Manu Bennett as Deputy Billy Kitka
• Megan Franich as Kali
• Joel Tobeck as Doug Hertz
• Elizabeth Hawthorne as Lucy Ikos
• Nathaniel Lees as Carter Davies
• Craig Hall as Wilson Bulosan
• Chic Littlewood as Isaac Bulosan
• Peter Feeney as John Riis
• Andrew Stehlin as Arvin
• John Rawls as Zurial
• Jared Turner as Aaron
• Kelson Henderson as Gabe
• Pua Magasiva as Malekai Hamm
• Grant Tilly as Gus
• Rachel Maitland-Smith as Gail
• Kate Elliott as Dawn
• Jacob Tomuri as Seth

STORYLINE

    The town of Barrow, Alaska, is preparing for its annual "30 Days of Night", a period during the winter with a month-long polar night.  because the town gets ready, a stranger rows ashore from an outsized ship and sabotages the town's communications and transport to the outside world. Barrow's sheriff, Eben Oleson, investigates and also learns that his estranged wife, Stella, missed the last plane out of town and must stay the 30 days. That night, a band of vampires, led by Marlow, attacks and slaughters most of the townspeople, forcing Eben, Stella, Eben's younger brother Jake,  and a number of other survivors to take shelter in a boarded-up house with a hidden attic. Marlow finds the stranger, who believes the vampires are visiting and turns him into one of them as a reward for his help, locked up within the station. Marlow thanks him for doing what he asked,  then snaps his neck.

    Eighteen days later, when a blizzard hits, the group uses the whiteout to travel to the general store for supplies but is stranded after it ends. While the group heads for the station, Eben creates a diversion by having the vampires chase him to his grandmother's house, where he uses one of her ultraviolet lights to burn the face of Marlow's lover, Iris, so badly that Marlow is forced to kill her. As he escapes, the town snowplough operator, Beau, creates another distraction together with his tractor, killing many of the vampires, before trying to blow himself up; when he fails, Marlow crushes his head. Eben arrives at the station, where he's then forced to kill Carter, who was bitten and has become a vampire.

    On Day 27, Stella and Eben see the deputy, Billy, signalling them with a flashlight,  and convey him back to the station, after checking out he killed his family to save them from a more painful death. The trio find the others have made for the utilidor, power and sewage treatment station that also has power, and head over there, but are separated after Stella saves Gail Robbins, a  lass whose family was slaughtered by a vampire named Zurial, who was stalking her. Eben and Billy make it to the utilidor, but are attacked by the vampire Arvin, who bites Billy; Billy knocks Arvin into the heavy-duty shredder, and in doing so, grinds his own hand to a stump accidentally, before being killed by Eben because he's starting to turn.

    

    As the month comes to an end, with the sun thanks to rising, the vampires start to burn down the town to destroy evidence of their presence, including survivors. Realizing Stella is trapped and he cannot beat the vampires in his current state, Eben turns himself into a vampire by injecting himself with Billy's infected blood. He confronts Marlow and they get into a vicious fight before Marlow is finally killed by having a hole punched through his mouth and head, causing the remaining vampires to escape. Knowing he will die soon, Eben and Stella explode to watch the sunrise together, sharing one last kiss.  because the sun comes up, Eben's body burns to ash in Stella's arms.