![]() Some big issues are presented to the viewer and the characters, issues that haven’t gone away. They seem to have settled there out of sheer perversity, and I guess they support themselves by selling stuff to one another. While we’ll never know what really was said or done, One Night In Miami is a wonderfully rendered fiction, a what-if scenario that doesn’t sacrifice its honesty and complexity in favor of easier to digest scenarios. No mention of drilling for oil, maintaining the pipeline, guarding against missile attacks, hunting whales, carving scrimshaw, etc. Folks are drawn closer together when they live in such extreme circumstances, although how they support themselves is a mystery to me. The most interesting aspect of the movie is Barrow itself. The vampires stalk the frigid streets, led by Marlow ( Danny Huston, who is actually quite convincing in the role). The survivors hide in an attic, plunder a supermarket and scheme and plot to outwit the vampires this time, at least, there is no crusty old-timer to say he's going to make a run for it, because of the 300 miles of snow, etc. Josh Hartnett plays the local sheriff, who teams up with his estranged wife, Stella ( Melissa George), another law enforcer, who missed the last flight out of town. The fact is, David Slade's "30 Days of Night" is a better than average example of the genre, even if it follows the time-honored pattern of supplying a macho man who gathers a hardy band in hiding while the vampires snuffle about. This play is a plea for every person to stop growing up so fast. Roller skating Nanas, kids with tin cans, literary obsessed vampires, clumsy security guards, kids without tin cans, quirky game show hosts, and more. ![]() Something about vampire movies brings out the one-liners in me, unless they are directed by Dreyer, Murnau or Herzog. 'Night Night, Roger Roger' by Roni Ragone is a comedic fanciful play about the world after the sun goes down. ![]() It is intriguing to think of newly converted vampires attending language classes at Berlitz, since I do not think Chomsky's theories of speech apply to the Undead.īut I could go on like this all day - or night, that is. They don't even speak that elegant Hammer Films English they talk like a garbled transmission played backward: " Qwe!nt raqulo*gg brop#sith!" The movie, which speaks their language, helpfully provides subtitles. Count Dracula at least had style and a sense of personal destiny these guys are merely obsessed with their next meal. They move with loud whooshes at lightning speed when you can't quite see them, and with ungainly lurches when you can. Their method of attack is the standard one in creature features. ![]()
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