For those of you who liked the graphic novel, this is close but not quite it. The director does a great job in keeping to the spirit of the story but makes a few unnecessary plot changes I felt. Some of the scenes are taken almost verbatim from the original story and are done remarkably well. As a whole this is not a movie for the timid. These are not the nice quaint Anne Rice Euro-vampires we've all become accustomed to in the last 10 years or so. No Twilight vampire-lite here, this is your old school blood drinkers amped up to an almost savage animal like behavior. This movie starts fast and doesn't let up until the end.

The blood and viscious kills were awesome. The "caring" 1/2 human 1/2 vampire...and the stupid love story (ending) "killed" it!

I cannot give a legitimate review of this purchase because as of yet it has yet to be completed to my satisfaction.

This is not a movie without its problems. AS far as suspension of disbelief goes, the movie takes some real liberties with the town of Barrow, Alaska, which in reality is both larger, and not nearly so isolated during the long dark period it endures every year. The movie is not without its cliches, and the pacing is uneven, but one thing about this movie makes up for a lot of that, and that is this film's portrayal of vampires.

Ever since Polidori's novel "The Vampyre" was published in 1819, there has been a trend to represent vampires as suave, sophisticated, aristocratic creatures. Bram Stoker's "Dracula" with its sexual undertones, reinforced this trend and also helped add an element of seductiveness to the monster. Since the vampire came to the silver screen, this trend has only gathered force (and Anne Rice really took this concept and ran with it), until now the typical movie vampire is a charismatic, refined, immortal metrosexual. Somewhere along the way, its as if everyone forgot the vampire was originally supposed to be a MONSTER.

In their folkloric origins, there was nothing refined or seductive about vampires. They were soulless, animated corpses, often described as bloated or ruddy in appearance, with fetid breath and a corpselike stench. They didn't move freely among humans, but preyed on them from outside human society. This movie's vampires represent a partial return to that concept of the vampire, and whether or not that appeals to you, it marks a refreshing change from what has become a rather tedious norm. Instead of a bunch of effete dandies, who occasionally bare their fangs to bite the humans with whom they freely mingle, this movie's vampires are ravenous, blood-hungry predators, whose mouthful of shark-like teeth never disappear, and whose long, talon-like fingernails never magically retract to leave normal looking human hands. These are creatures who must exist on the fringe of human society, never getting too close, as they can't blend in, nor would they have any wish to. They are thoroughly malevolent, and utterly sadistic fiends, and as such, are something movie vampires haven't been in a long time (at least not to me) -- scary.

Lately I've been watching the new series on HBO about Vampires that's titled "True Blood." Those Vampires have been welcomed as members of society since they can survive on an artificial blood formula. Those Vampires can get a little nasty, but in general they're not bad people, for being the walking dead.

The vampires in this movie really come across as the monsters that they are. And even though the movie isn't as scary as your general slasher genre it does make the vampires seem like pure evil with no sense of humanity present at all. In fact these vampires are every bit as creepy as the one in the silent movies years ago. Not only did they seem pure evil, but their teeth were more like shark teeth instead of a couple little fangs.....Very creepy.

I wouldn't let a younger kid see it because I think it would cause a lot of terrible dreams and sleepless nights if you're the parent. But for adults....It's a pretty good freak show...