I was quite sad when the comic book adaptation 30 Days Of Night didn't make much cash at the box office, despite it being a bloody good vampire movie. I love the series of graphic novels created by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith, and had hope that the sequel stories would be filmed as well. Well, lack of income didn't stop them as the second story, Dark Days, has been produced and released. Only, this time, it's on a much reduced budget and dumped straight on to DVD.
That smaller spend has meant that Melissa George, soul survivor of the first movie, isn't affordable to this effort. Putting in a decent turn as her replacement is A Perfect Getaway actress Kiele Sanchez who plays the long suffering Stella, out for vengeance on the streets of L.A. Lacking the high concept plot, the ghoulish ferocity and the slow burn atmospherics of the original, Dark Days is a disposable vampire thriller for the ZoneHorror TV channel. The cast are fine and the production is adequate but it's connection to the first film is the only reason to watch this auto-pilot directed scarefest. take away that connection and I'm not sure you'd take this off the shelf at Blockbuster.
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