Talk:30 Days of Night (film)

Video journals

The film has a number of video journals, which can be found in the External links section of the article. If anyone wants to expand on the Production section, please check out the videos and cite them as your sources. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 18:14, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

New image

There's a second 30 Days of Night picture available at SuperHeroHype.com. Anyone want to replace the current picture with this new one? —Erik (talk • contrib) - 19:54, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

I wouldn't, just because the newer picture only has Josh, while the first has the three main members of the cast. But, the new picture has the vampires. It's a gamble. I'm not familiar with who's going to play who, but if any name actors are going to be vampires, I'd wait for images of them. If not, then it's up for grabs. Bignole 21:07, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Why not put both? We could atleast crop it. H2P ^{(Yell at me for what I've done)} 04:22, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Danny Huston is the main vampire so any photo with him in it would be good.LiPollis 02:50, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Country

The IMDB has the country of origin as New Zealand/USA, Weta Digital did the special effects and many of the actors in the film were NZders (Amber Sainsbury, Manu Bennett etc...) so it makes sense to add New Zealand as the country of orgin in the infobox. along side the USA. Arguss 03:35, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

According to Template talk:Infobox Film/Syntax Guide, the country attribute is for countries in which the producing company is based. I assume that this is either Columbia Pictures and/or Ghost House Pictures, which I believe are both of American origin. The other factors that you mention aren't taken into consideration. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 07:40, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Danny Huston

• "Huston Vamps In 30 Days". Sci Fi Wire. 2007-02-16. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

Citation for use. —Erik (talk • contrib • review) - 16:12, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Trivia question

In the video game "Max Payne" a couple of thugs in the hotel level first visit in the room next to the Frankie victim talk about a similar theme to this movie. Is this just a coincidice? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.118.115.62 (talk) 05:05, August 25, 2007 (UTC)

Citations for use

• Chris Ryall (2007-04-23). "IDWEEK: DAVID SLADE ON THE 30 DAYS OF NIGHT MOVIE". Newsarama. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

Information about the end of production and some conversation about the film and its effects. —Erik (talk • contrib • review) - 15:00, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• Interview: Screenwriter Steve Niles Talks to Cinematical About '30 Days of Night', 'Bigfoot', and Torture Porn's Demise —Erik (talk • contrib) - 01:13, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

• Edward Douglas (2007-07-12). "EXCL: Steve Niles, Busiest Man in Horror & Comics!". ShockTillYouDrop.com. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) —Erik (talk • contrib) - 16:45, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

• INT: Steve Niles —Erik (talk • contrib) - 04:41, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

• EXCL: Josh Hartnett on 30 Days of Night —Erik (talk • contrib) - 14:02, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

• FEARnet And Ghost House Pictures announce '30 Days of Night: Blood Trails' —Erik (talk • contrib) - 13:31, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

• 30 Makes Vampires Scary Again —Erik (talk • contrib) - 14:05, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

• 30's Hartnett Liked Graphic Novel —Erik (talk • contrib) - 13:46, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

• Behind the Scenes of 30 Days of Night —Erik (talk • contrib) - 00:55, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

• David Slade Interview
• Steve Niles Interview

Interviews. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 00:18, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

• 30 Days of Night Q&A
• 30 Days Makes Vamps Scary
• 30 Days Shot At Night
• Josh Hartnett Pictures Himself in ‘30 Days of Night’

Headlines. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 18:33, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

• 30 DAYS OF NIGHT'S VAMPIRES —Erik (talk • contrib) - 18:37, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

• 30 Days Q&A! —Erik (talk • contrib) - 20:10, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

• "Modern-Day Hitchcock" David Slade —Erik (talk • contrib) - 15:28, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

• 30 Days Mirrored Graphic Novel —Erik (talk • contrib) - 15:55, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

• EXCL: Melissa George on 30 Days of Night —Erik (talk • contrib) - 00:57, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

• 30 Days' Vamps Are Stylish and 30 DAYS OF NIGHT'S BEN FOSTER —Erik (talk • contrib) - 01:14, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

• 30 Days of Write —Erik (talk • contrib) - 01:20, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

• Raimi: 30 Days Sequel Possible —Erik (talk • contrib) - 15:01, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

• A Conversation with Sam Raimi —Erik (talk • contrib) - 00:48, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

• 30 Days of Steve Niles —Erik (talk • contrib) - 14:57, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

• 30 Days Not Hairy For Hartnett —Erik (talk • contrib) - 14:59, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

• '30 Days' money back guarantee
• Vampires back from the dead?

Headlines from The Hollywood Reporter. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 18:26, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

If you yourself aren't going to use these potential citations, and it seems clear nobody else seems to want to use them, why keep adding them? A Talk page is not for long lists of potentially useful links to information that could be used in an article if anyone ever got around to it. I humbly suggest that you spend your time trying to work some of this into the article itself. I believe it would be time well spent and it might make the article far more informative. be bold! LiPollis 20:14, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

I have a lot of articles on my watchlist, and I don't have the time to devote myself entirely to a specific article these days. I may or may not get around to improvement, but if I don't, these citations are available for implementation. I've improved Sunshine (2007 film) this way -- see its talk page. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 21:24, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

• Helmer David Slade Talks 30 Days —Erik (talk • contrib) - 21:12, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
• IN-DEPTH WITH "30 DAYS OF NIGHT'S" STEVE NILES —Erik (talk • contrib) - 00:52, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
• Steve Niles' sheds light on '30 Days of Night' —Erik (talk • contrib) - 00:56, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Language of the Vampires?

Just caught this flick last night. Does anyone know what language the vamps are speaking? I couldn't figure it out myself. --Brasswatchman 03:30, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

I think it might be Russian —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.167.195.153 (talk) 03:44, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it was Russian. I saw the Russian president on TV yesterday and he was talking just like the vampires in this movie. He gave a long speech - it was pretty creepy.--202.134.251.206 (talk) 12:13, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

It's apparently a fake language made up specifically for the movie. -- Grandpafootsoldier 21:13, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Sounded like a bad version of klingon. They kept repeating the same parts over for different meanings. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.24.1.146 (talk) 02:46, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

It was definitely not any Slavic, Romance or Germanic language. But yeah, I'd lean towards it being gibberish. Donald Hosek 05:57, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

It was NOT Russian.

-G

Um, if no one speaks it and it has no subtitles - how does the writer of the synopsis know what they're saying? I haven't seen the film, but I noticed that contradiction in the synopsis. -Elizabennet | talk 03:22, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

There are subtitles. Where'd you get that there aren't any? Jdrice8 (talk) 20:08, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Book

Tim Lebbon wrote a book based on the screenplay of the movie. isbn is: 1-4165-4497-5 (Pocket Star Books). i think somebody should add this to the article. --74.130.107.212 02:32, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

I've added it. Thanks for bringing it up! —Erik (talk • contrib) - 02:38, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

No Problem ^^ (was me, i wasn't locked in) --.læraðr 13:20, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

There's a book, based on the movie, which itself is based on a book? Weird, man. Skotte (talk)

Ship

That large ship shown in the Ice at the start of the movie. Is that what is transporting the vampires? --142.176.13.19 (talk) 06:38, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

The assumption is that, yes, the ship is how they arrived. In the comic books there is more said about where the vampires came fFrom and how and why they arrived. The fFilm leaves it largely to the audience to deduce. Skotte (talk) 19:53, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

150 population is incorrect

They showed him change the population counter to show the population of the town after people had gone away for the winter. That is why they had the discussion about it and he said something like it is tradition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.167.213.128 (talk) 11:52, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Plot Section

The production section of the article is reasonably long - does this justify removing {{Plot}}? Reb42 (talk) 05:52, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Typo? (Barrow has an acutal plane route.)

From the article:

Barrow has an acutal plane route.

This doesn't make sense. It would seem obvious at first glance that "Barrow has an actual plane route" is meant, however plane connections are mentioned a little earlier. Clarification? --20:24, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Timeline error?

The article says: Two weeks later, Stella and Eben see Deputy Billy Kitka signaling them with a flashlight. But it seemed to me on just watching the film that no significant time had elapsed between the previous scene that we describe and this occurrence. Haven't changed the article in case I missed something. Barnabypage (talk) 20:23, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Removed Trivia Section

As they are frowned upon and it contained only one item anyway. That bit was also uncited. I did find a cite for it though and thus incorporated it into the Production section.On Thermonuclear War (talk) 21:16, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

This is unclear…

"he sabotages the town's communications and transport, destroying all means of communication with, and travel to, the outside world" [snip] "unknown creatures attack the local telecommunications center and power supply, rendering the town dark and cut off from the outside world"

Ok, so did the first guy do this or the unknown creatures? From the description, it couldn't be both. Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:27, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

And then there's the terminology surrounding the utilidor. I assume this is a "utilidor to the power…", as a utilidor is a tunnel. Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:31, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

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Can someone explain why the protagonist is "Sheriff"?

In Alaska we don't have Sheriff. Watch this.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sheriff+in+alaska&oq=sheriff+in+alaska&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3.4287j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

--81.44.203.171 (talk) 06:06, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Article issues

As a B-class article, there are issues that should have resulted in a demotion. In no particular order, I will list noticed issues.

• The plot, as is consistent with many like articles, has zero sourcing. Sourcing issues fails #1 of the assessment criteria.
• The third paragraph of the lead is about other films and not the subject. While mentioning this in the article is acceptable it is not lead-worthy.
• There is an "expansion needed" tag (February 2016) in the Critical reception subsection which conflicts with #2 of the assessment. If Rotten Tomatoes (same subsection) is acceptable as a source it does not need to be included in the "External links" section.
• The "Home media" subsection has a lack of sourcing.
• The "External links" section suffers from bloat with like review links that likely do not offer anything extra so needs trimming. One of these would be sufficient but eight links are unnecessary. -- Otr500 (talk) 00:28, 19 May 2021 (UTC)