A copy of 30 days of night

I think the writer got his inspiration from the comic.

Well not really... It was published by IDW in 2002 or something I think.
Also it should be almost impossible to miss if you have the slightest interest in vampires and/or comicbooks.

However I for one dont think that it is a copy, well the basic concept and it appearing on the same latitudes of Canada.
And it is hard to think that would impose on copyrights enough to qualify as a technically copied script, especially as frostbiten puts no particular weight on this angle.
Besides theres a Swedish vampire shortmovie from, hmm 1998 with this basic concept also. (In the long periods of darkness the vampires found time to search genetics/blood that will allow them to eventually endure sunlight and eat the world population.)

Also if you read books like Dean Ray Koontz "Phantoms" 1983 (who has'nt that calls himself a horror fan?) it was kinda obvious to make connections that the unknown threat would be something vampire-like. Altough it is a "blob-alike" that aint to picky and consumes more than just the blood of it's victims.

About the compared films in Question,
I think both movies has some appealing moments, and some less interesting moments to put it a nice way.
CGI is a bad thing, unfinished scripts are worse.
(You know, I wanna know what happened in the abrupt parallell story with Jakob? 'N stuff like that.)
But they lean on different angles, 30 days is serious, Frostbiten is a comedy?
My favorite moment is actually in frostbiten, these guys really caught a hilarous moment when the arch-vampire/old geezer is hit by the ambulance and were served a close-up of old flubby buzzard/geezer crack at the peak in the movies most serious moment. Nice with some distance guys with humour in this day and age.

Finally, about one movie being total garbage as opposed to the lesser rated opponent. There is definitely a garbage factor in both films, but I'll let IMDB crown the winner if it is necessary to explore the downsides.
How do you compare two movies with different approaches as survival vs. humour anyway?

I just try to look at them with contempt that at least somebody is making vampire flicks.
Instead enjoy the positive, Swedes making something other than Bergman wannabee anxiety b/w sheit, and something that has some cozy "The Thing" factor and Raimi's name in the creds. =)


/Rambling guy *what do I know anyway?)

If everything is going well - then your obviously overlooking something...

Idiot that I am I actually thought they were the same film for a while.
See, I read about Frostbite (that's the title it went under here) in one movie magazine or another when it came out, thought it sounded like an interesting concept but never saw it (I live in the middle of nowhere and a lot of films pass us by). Then I went to University, stopped getting any magazines or going to the cinema much (couldn't afford it anymore), and sort of lost track of things. Therefore, when I heard all this stuff about "30 Days of Night" being released on DVD and heard the basic premise, I assumed that it had just had its name changed for marketing purposes or something. *facepalm*

Vinegarfly - youre missing the point, and also youre not reading the nfo in the thread carefully =)
"30 days" is a comic from 2002 - so your implying it could not be because it came out first would therefore only be proof of the opposite of what youre stating ;)

Nah seriously, there are, like i pointed out similarities and differences.
But I doubt anyone could deny the obvious influences of the theme, or?

/helturflippad

If everything is going well - then your obviously overlooking something...

Why do people keep saying the same irrelevant things on this thread? Regardless of the source of inspiration, the 30 DAYS OF NIGHT comic was obviously produced BEFORE the movie FROSTBITEN.



Ooo, baby, your domestic gross is SO BIG. That's how I know how GOOD you are!