30 Days of Night is a 2007 American horror film adapted from the comic book miniseries of the same name. Directed by David Slade, the film stars Josh Hartnett and Melissa George. Set in a remote Alaskan town plunged into a month-long polar night, the story follows the residents as they struggle to survive a brutal vampire onslaught.

The concept was initially pitched as a film, then as a comic, but both were rejected. Eventually, creator Steve Niles brought the idea to IDW Publishing, where it gained traction and was developed into a successful comic series before being adapted into a film. https://shorturl.at/uZdWP

Produced with a $30 million budget, the movie earned over $75 million worldwide during its six-week theatrical run starting on October 19, 2007. It received mixed reviews from critics.

The film's success spawned a franchise, including the prequel miniseries Blood Trails (2007), the sequel miniseries Dust to Dust (2008), and a direct-to-video sequel film, Dark Days (2010).


Plot.

The town of Barrow, Alaska (now Utqiaġvik) is preparing for its annual period of the winter with a month-long polar night.  As the town gets ready, a stranger arrives from a large ship and sabotages the town's communications and transports.  Barrow's sheriff, Eben Oleson, investigates and learns that his estranged wife, Stella, missed the last plane out of town and must stay for 30 days.
 That night, a band of vampires, led by Marlow, attacks and slaughters most of the townspeople, including Eben's grandmother Helen, forcing Eben, his wife and brother, and seven other survivors to take shelter in a boarded-up house with a hidden attic.  In the police station holding cell, Marlow finds the stranger, who believes the vampires will "turn" him as a reward for his help.  However, Marlow snaps his neck.  When the vampires torture a survivor named Kirsten as bait, Eben takes the opportunity to save a resident named John, who was hiding underneath a hut, injured from trying to protect his wife Ally; however, Eben is horrified to see he has turned and forced to kill him when John tries to devour him.  One of the residents hiding in the attic, Wilson, is forced to chase after his father, Isaac, who has dementia, out into the open, and both are killed.
 18 days later, when a blizzard hits, the group uses the whiteout to go to the general store for supplies but gets stranded after the blizzard ends.  They head for the station while Eben creates a diversion.  He lures the vampires to his grandmother's house and uses one of her ultraviolet lights to severely burn Marlow's lover, Iris, forcing him to mercy-kill her.  Eben is aided by Beau, the town snowplow operator, who kills many vampires with his tractor.  When he crashes, Beau attempts a suicide bombing to kill the remaining vampires.  However, Beau and the vampires survive the explosion, and Marlow crushes his head.
 On Day 27, Stella and Eben see the deputy, Billy, signaling them with a flashlight and bring him back to the station after finding out he killed his family to save them from a more painful death.  The trio find the others have made for the utilidor, a power and sewage treatment station that still has power, and head over there, but are separated after Stella saves Gail Robbins, a young girl whose family was slaughtered by the vampire Zurial.  Eben and Billy make it to the utilidor but are attacked by the vampire Arvin.  Billy kills Arvin but gets bitten in the process.  When he begins to turn, Eben is forced to kill him. As the month ends, with the sun due to rise, the vampires prepare to burn the fuel line running through the town, which will cause it to explode and destroy evidence of their presence.  Realizing Stella and Gail are trapped in the open and that he cannot beat the vampires in his current state, Eben injects himself with Billy's blood.  Now a vampire, Eben confronts Marlow and manages to kill the vampire leader after a vicious fight, causing the remaining vampires to flee.  With the vampires' attack on Barrow over, Eben, Stella, Jake, Lucy, Denise, and Gail are the only townspeople who survived.  Eben and Stella watch the sunrise together, sharing one last kiss.  As the sun rises, Eben's body burns to ash in Stella's arms.


Cast.

Josh Hartnett as Sheriff Eben Oleson
 Melissa George as Stella Oleson
 Marlow, played by Danny Huston 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 Iris
 Joel Tobeck as Doug Hertz
 Elizabeth Hawthorne as Lucy Ikos
 Nathaniel Lees as Carter Davies
 Craig Hall as Wilson Bulosan
 Isaac Bulosan is played by Chic Littlewood. Peter Feeney as John Riis
 Min Windle as Ally Riis
 Andrew Stehlin as Arvin
 John Rawls as Zurial
 Jared Turner as Aaron
 As Gabe, Kelson Henderson Pua Magasiva as Malekai Hamm
 Grant Tilly as Gus
 Rachel Maitland-Smith as Gail Robbins
 Kate Elliott as Dawn
 Jacob Tomuri as Seth
 Camille Keenan as Kirsten Toomey