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The film's producer Sam Raimi is himself no stranger to movies based on comic books. After all, he directed the three mega-hit "SpiderMan" movies. However, Raimi's roots are in horror. His early film successes were "Evil Dead," "Evil Dead 2," and "Army of Darkness," all classics of the genre.
With "30 Days of Nights," Raimi wanted to make a scary movie, a vampire tale. But "vampires aren't scary anymore," he laments. "They, you know, I mean - they hang out with you, you know, teenage girls date them on TV now. [Laughter] They're just, you know, they're not scary ... we had made them too human. So we had to strip away all that and the idea of a creature that looks very much like us, (for one) that looks at us like cattle, like food and that is it. That was something [Ben Foster] and I really wanted to do - make actual frightening vampires again."[Josh Hartnett] and [Melissa George] play the husbandand-wife cop team who take on i;he marapding bloodsuckers. You'll remember Hartnett from such popular fare as "Sin City," "Black Dahlia," and "Pearl Harbor." Ms. George you saw in the remake of "The Amityville Horror" and 23 episodes of TV's "Alias."See the full content of this document
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'30 Days of Night' Is a Lights-Out Scary Story
Front Row at the Movies
"30 Days of Night" is a Lights-Out Scary Storyreviewed by Shirrel RhoadesThe scariest movie I ever saw was "Night of the Living Dead" - the original George A. Romero zombie fest. I'll never forget that moment in the film when the world goes off kilter ("They're coming to get you, Barbara!"). Or all those brain-hungry monsters moving about in the dark.Perhaps it harkens back to my younger days listening to radio programs like "Lights Out" and "Inner Sanctum." Or reading EC horror comics such as Tales from the Crypt" and "Vault of Horror" under the covers with a flashlight.Only last week I was swapping e-mails with Cath...See the full content of this document
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