@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 He took a deliberate break from acting. I'd love to take a decade off from my job and then jump right back in, tough... unfortunately I dont have that luxury.
I think one of my favorite things about this movie is just how competent most of the group is, they rarely make any bad or stupid decisions (except the 1 guy who was shown to be a hothead and of course elderly man and his son) but the vamps are just too used to the hunt and dangerous in a fight so things still go wrong that the group then has to deal with. It’s nice having intelligent characters in a horror movie. Also this movie reduced the period of darkness from actual Alaskan towns, like in real life the period of darkness lasts like 60+ days, imagine if the characters had to go that long
@@donmcglothlin841 For those who remember actor/director John Huston, he was Danny Huston's father, and Anjelica Huston is Danny Huston's half-sister. John Huston directed, among other things, "The Maltese Falcon" ('41), and played the role of Noah Cross in "Chinatown" ('71) alongside Jack Nicholson, who was in a relationship with Anjelica Huston for several years.
I read the novel. One of the scenes that I understand why it didn't show up in the movie. But I miss so much from the book. Back when everybody was hiding in the attic they watched a polar bear wander into town and the vampires killed it with pack tactics which is when a lot of the characters lost hope. If a polar bear can't win against them, what chance does anybody else have?
Well in a 2007 movie with the budget that they had that bear fight would just see janky and completely out of character for the rest of the movie so I think we where better off without it.
Kat, I'm so glad you watched 30 Days of Night! It's one of the best movies based off a graphic novel series. The artwork in the graphic novel is visceral and evocative and the movie really captures the feel of the graphic novel. Thanks for watching the best of the Josh Hartnett vehicles!
@@catpleb2574 just paraphrased. Still a Hell of a scene! Very underrated film. Wish it would have gotten a proper sequel instead of what we ended up with.
30:10 Also another thing that is pretty generally accepted in vampiric mythos is that the older they are, the stronger they get. He had no chance in a one on one fight vs an elder vampire... as shown. Yet he won... cause the elder was playing with him. Vanity as I said.
So happy you got around to seeing this, it’s one of my favourite vampire movies. You asked where it was shot, it was made in Auckland down here in New Zealand. A team from Weta Workshop (where I work) did all the gory and vampire effects. We do still have one of the dead huskies on the wall in the mould making dept. I didn’t get a chance to work on this one, but I did work on “Daybreakers” a year or so later, which is also a fun vampire movie.
I was really enjoying the effects, what great work everyone did 👍I had a friend take a trip to NZ last fall, the Weta Workshop was on her wish list of places to visit and would be her absolute dream job (she works in theater/scenery/props)
The ancients studied Kat-jitsu, to protect themselves against all forms of natural and supernatural threat. Advanced students could chop threats in several directions per second, and utter terrifying warscreams... ;-)
I love this movie so much I go between this and Let The Right One In as my favorite Vampire movie, if I'm in the mood for more Drama than Let The Right One In is my favorite but if I'm in the mood for Action and more Vampire murder than 30 Days Of Night is my favorite
Such an underappreciated horror movie. It's considered one of the last real vampire movies before the Twilight franchise kicked off a year later and turned vampires and werewolves into emo teens. If you want a good werewolf movie, I HIGHLY recommend "Dog Soldiers". Great reaction as always.
Yep. I think this really deserved a trip to Alaska for an "environment watch". ⛄ I used to think I was totally over vampire films, until I watched "Let me in" and this one. Real chills down my spine.
@@phousefilms I think they released it to DVD with different titles. I mean definetely the US version. The original Swedish is the lesser movie I think. In the Swedish version the performances of the kids are not that good, the practical effects seem way cheaper and not that acomplished, plus the sexual abuse subplot is creepier in a no good way and doesnt add anything meaingful, only shock value. And I say this coming from someone that usually prefers original versions over the US remake, "The girl with the dragon tatoo" is an example.
Now would not be a fun time to visit if you hate the cold!!! It's so cold in many places this already this year... I wouldn't want to be in any of the coldest states!!
@@winterfell_foreverI personally hate movies that lean heavily on psychopath kid bullies that somehow travel in packs. Stephen King's works were full of them, then modern media took that idea and fucking hauled ass with it. I'm sorry but I don't think Hollywood would understand how quickly the general population *wouldn't* be putting up with kids carving their names into other kids. My kid starts doing some Henry Bowers shit, he'd be in a padded room so quick his fuckin head would spin.
What a great start to the year! I'm happy you really enjoyed this movie, it just gets overlooked a lot. The premise is so perfect it's crazy it took a long as it did for someone to use it. This is where I of course recommend Ready Or Not again! But I have a second recommendation that's not for the channel. There's a show that's about 10 years old now called Penny Dreadful, which Josh Hartnett is in. It's a Gothic horror show that I think you'd really enjoy watching on your own time.
As someone who works up on the North Slope of Alaska, and is currently in the depths of polar night (and a wicked blizzard), there are no vampires here. We promise.
The head vampire was quite well read: Quoting polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski: "When man meets a force he can't destroy, he destroys himself instead. What a plague you are.", and quoting Dmitri Pisarev "What can be broken, must be broken." (Anything that isn't strong enough to endure wear, needs destroying and replacing... to weed out all the weaknesses)
SUCH an underrated vampire flick on all accounts. Without question, it is definitely one of my all-time favorite vampire movies to sit alongside Blade as an adaptation of graphic novels or mainstream comics. The design, the personalized language, the setting, and the unique plot line that kicked off this horror adventure. I'm so glad we got the opportunity to join this first-watch ride with you, Kat, and look forward to many more as this brand-new year unfolds. Happy New Year to you and loved one's and hope it was a celebration to remember.
So many mythos about Vamps, yet I think they agree aways on 3 ways to kill them. 1: Fire (to ash, they can survive most), 2: Decapitation, 3: Sunlight. The rest varies a lot...
Such a radically different first and second half to this movie, and both work on different levels. That tracking shot across the town when the initial slaughter happens is still incredible and chaotic - I'd like to think I'd be one of the people that kept their head and got clear, but most of the corpses probably thought that too lol.
In a situation with things that have super strength and speed hunting you I feel like for most people it would boil down to luck, because even with a cool head on your shoulders if one of those things comes around a corner and you don't have serious distance between you, it's gonna close that gap like a jaguar and be eating you before you can even finish spinning to run... people struggle to conceptualize just how fast predators like big cats can move when they want to, which is why people die on safari (more frequently than they should) opening the car door to take pictures of the animals they think are a "safe" distance away
I appreciated the intelligent vampire treatment in this movie; it makes them more savage. The tactic of reserving citizens to deploy later draw out survivors was masterful. First we see the young woman walking about insufficiently dressed for the cold, actively calling for help. Then the young girl alone, several days later, not uttering a word. The vamps understand human compulsion to help another in need and ratchet up that urge by using the young girl after the adult woman. Also, the vamps setting the town aflame, to cover their tracks would have investigative agencies conclude all residents died in a tragic accident.
Yay! Now you can start a Vampires playlist. Other great vamp movies include Let Me In/Let the Right One In, Fright Night (new or old version), John Carpenter's Vampires, From Dusk Til Dawn, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Daybreakers...that's just off the top of my head. Can't go wrong with vampires! I love 30 Days of Night. The vamps are so brutal and animalistic. I'd say this is a very underrated movie that made vamps scary again. 🖤🧛♀️
We Are The Night is one of my personal favorites and more lighthearted as vampire movies go but still dark, gory and horror genre. I think Kat would especially appreciate the all girl vampires in it.
Kat meets 30 Days of Night! Yes! This film is of the savage strain of vampire! If you ever dive into series format, then the go-to is adapted from the trilogy of novels, The Strain on FX. 30 Days of Night is itself adapted from a comic book miniseries that is a must-read! Barrows, Alaska! Snow, cold, vampires! What more can you ask for! And really, Melissa George has got to make more genre films!
I remember listening to the commentary for this and they said that the vampiric language used here was a patchwork language of several ancient ones, invented by a linguistics professor they consulted. It's very clever, subverting the "Eastern European" accent we tend to expect.
This is absoulutely one of my favorite vampire movies, and I am so glad the ending hit the same for you. Another Josh Hartnett horror movie is The Faculty which I highly recommend, I also recommend Dawn of the Dead (2004) which has great character relationships and the simple plot formula that seems right up your alley. Love every upload!
The Faculty is a pretty fun watch.. id never made the connection that he was in that till I read your comment! He was also great in a black mirror episode
One of the best vampire movies for sure only watched this again a few weeks ago but watched again along with you ❤😂your so cool i love your comments and movie reactions more movies please .
I’m so happy you watched this one! I was OBSESSED when this came out. It’s one of my favorite horror movies, and one of the best vampire movies ever made. You’re right, it had a simple premise and they executed it so well. Fun fact: They invented a new language for this movie. How the vampires communicate with each other is very guttural and primal sounding. Most of them are ancient. Oh, and the ending gets me emotional every time. Eben’s sacrifice 😭
I love it: about 100 years of vampire movies and now this premise! I guess there were no film makers from above the arctic circle? Best Kat-ism: "He's gonna spend a fortune on that in therapy."
Your reaction to one of my favourite horror movies was awesome. I like how you appreciate so many aspects of the movie including the score which really sets the tone of this movie. Ben foster is so chilling and the last scene of the movie is truly chefs kiss. To sit with the one you love for one last sunrise while they turn to ash is on another level. Now on to tremors
Your channel is consistently becoming my new favorite. I loved horror flicks for alot of years when I was younger and alot of the movies you're watching are from that time in my life. As I've gotten older and movies have gotten more cookie cutter it's hard to find films that live outside of that mold and have substance. Especially in the horror genre. So it's pretty great re-watching some of my favorites with someone who quite vocally hates horror movies. But as I watch you on this journey I see you pick elements from movies that you find beautiful or brilliant and that's what makes good movies good. Take this movie for instance, yeah it's the old vampire movie trope. But.... It stays dark for a month and leaves no respite from the onslaught of monsters. It's such a small twist on the vampire genre but it's so effective. So glad I found your channel.
30 Days of Night is one of my personal all time favorite vampire movies!!! This is what real vampire films are made of..., not like that Twilight garbage which came out a year after this one.
Another great reaction Kat! Forgot how violent this one is. Now you’ve got to watch The Crazies (2010) for another not-zombie-movie-but-kinda-is-zombie-movie!
Today I Learned: this movie was Produced by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert. No wonder it's so good! I mean, on top of having a great cast AND a great concept, that is. I'm pretty sure I have this on DVD so I think I'll have to dig it out and rewatch it now.
And since they filmed in New Zealand, we have at least one actor that we've seen in other Sam Raimi productions. Joel Toebeck from Hercules and Xena Warrior Princess.
I can't believe I've never seen this movie before! Love Kat's videos because with most of them I'm either watching her watch things I'm really nostalgic about or I'm experiencing some awesome movies for the first time with her through her videos :D Feels like a little slumber party lmao
i have been waiting for you to watch this. this is one of my favorite horror movies/vampire movies of all time! I watch this like once every few months.
If for nothing else this movie deserves credit for that overhead shot of the all out attack on the town. One of my favorite choices I've seen in a film.
I love your reactions... the wise cracks (i.e. who's there) keeps a perpetual half smile on my face and then I love how you show real emotion when a movie gets to you. You really get invested in the characters in well made movies. Added bonus for today -I had never seen this movie before.. and now I don't have to. The Kat Kondensed Cliff Notes version will be sufficient.
I am so glad I found your channel. Your reactions are so great! This is one of my all time favorite vampire movies - and I usually watch it whenever we get our first major snowstorm of the year. The reason they were burning the town at the end was to cover their tracks. That way it would have looked like a tragic accident (fire) as opposed to vampire attack.
I would love to see you react to the lovely bones. It’s not horror per say more of a thriller but I know you would enjoy the beautiful look the film has
4:05: They filmed this in New Zealand, so a lot of the supporting cast are Kiwi actors. Some of the locations are where I go hiking every now and again, except it doesn't snow there.
one of my fave horror movies. it is the best vampire movies. you should at least checkout this list dear Kat: The Others (2001) Wrong Turn (2003) Shutter (2004) - foreign House of Wax (2005) Silent Hill (2006) When a Strangers Calls (2006) Rec (2007) - foreign Vacancy (2007) The Messengers (2007) The Orphanage (2007) - foreign I am Legend (2007) The Strangers (2008) Triangle (2009) Orphan (2009) Frozen (2010) Julia's Eyes (2010) - foreign The Crazies (2010) Devil (2010) Stake Land (2010) Legion (2010) The Rite (2011)
20:14 And of course Vamps must be wise/smart, for they have lived for so long. They excel at pretty much anything, specially the arts. Yet there are flicks that portrait them as some wild thing, almost like a blood lusting animal that can be fooled like any other animal. Yet of course, they are vane, for they are pretty and immortal, and that is also taken sometimes as their Aquiles heel.
It's My first time watching it was amazing. I had meant to watch it a long time ago but never did. So thanks it was even better watch it with you. Fun watch ❤
Only the Directors cut of the movie Nightbreed. That is the only version worth watching. Because it is the only version of the movie that is what was actually in the script or screenplay. It was the only version that they actually filmed. The movie studio interfered an mutilated it after it was filmed. Into a completely different movie On the audio commentary an bonus features for the Directors cut of Nightbreed. Clive Barker an every single person that worked on the movie on screen an behind the scenes says this.
Love this film! they shot it in New Zealand and it holds the record for most fake snow used in a film! Apparently the actors were sweating and dropping from heat stroke filming it. they had to create custom crop top snow jackets to film all the close up scenes so the actors could wear all the heavy coats as little as possible!
Brilliant reaction Kat your a diamond, i love this movie the snowy isolation setting adds a moody atmosphere, good story, great characters & well directed. Highly recommend Blade, John Carpenter's Vampires too gorertastic vampire flicks.
First movie of the year and it's the one I recommended, thanks so much Kat!!! I am so happy that you loved this movie, and I'm trying to not get greedy, but I'd like you to watch 'Incident in a Ghostland' (or just 'Ghostland'). I don't want to spoil much of the story because the direction, writing and acting on this movie is fantastic, but is a suspense horror movie where a mother of two teenagers inherits a home from her Aunt, and things start to get tense and strange. This movie it's one of a kind and I'm sure you are going to love it. Have my best wishes for this new year and best regards from Uruguay!
I just binge watched about 10 or 12 of your movie reactions, from a year or so ago to very recent. I have really enjoyed them all, and you are hysterically entertaining, so I had to finally subscribe! In one of those videos you brought up the movie DELIVERANCE. While I would never classify that as a horror movie, it still would qualify for your channel I feel. Besides, it's actually quite a high quality classic 70s film full of suspense. I think you'd enjoy it, and I'd certainly enjoy watching your reaction! However, there is an underrated bonafide horror gem from that same year that you definitely SHOULD see, and that is DEATHDREAM, and it's by the same director that did Black Christmas which you recently reacted to. He also directed A Christmas Story. You can thank me later. Great job, young lady! I look forward to more from you! 😎👍
Thanks for watching this Kat.. This is one of if not my favorite all time vampire movies & my favorite graphic novel series, which is what it is based off of. So glad you watched this. It doesn't get enough recognition in my opinion. Much love..❤
The pan over shot down the street with just absolute chaos going on. Huge streaks of blood and multiple Shotgun blasts. Saw it in theater and just left me stunned.
What if it would have been 6 months of night? Good movie kind of like a zombie combined with The Thing movie. In real life all the people in that town would have been killed, unless a miracle took place. Kat's reaction is priceless.
I really always loved Josh Hartnett's line delivery of "I can smell your blood." I glad to see him have a resurgence in his career.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 He took a deliberate break from acting.
I'd love to take a decade off from my job and then jump right back in, tough... unfortunately I dont have that luxury.
This is sorely under-reacted to. By far one of my favorite vampire movies. Been waiting for this one!
Yup I like this movie too and it's second part too am Indian
Agree. Saw it years ago & loved the concept & story line.
I think one of my favorite things about this movie is just how competent most of the group is, they rarely make any bad or stupid decisions (except the 1 guy who was shown to be a hothead and of course elderly man and his son) but the vamps are just too used to the hunt and dangerous in a fight so things still go wrong that the group then has to deal with. It’s nice having intelligent characters in a horror movie.
Also this movie reduced the period of darkness from actual Alaskan towns, like in real life the period of darkness lasts like 60+ days, imagine if the characters had to go that long
I love Josh. This movie was an underrated gem. And his scream at the end as he burns, always gets me.
Danny Huston going “No… no god” is such an underrated creepy movie line
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 he’s related to Anjelica Huston (Morticia Addams).
Also he’s in Wonder Woman
I think he’s phenomenal in this film
@@donmcglothlin841 For those who remember actor/director John Huston, he was Danny Huston's father, and Anjelica Huston is Danny Huston's half-sister. John Huston directed, among other things, "The Maltese Falcon" ('41), and played the role of Noah Cross in "Chinatown" ('71) alongside Jack Nicholson, who was in a relationship with Anjelica Huston for several years.
Didn't he go "God? No God!"
Shut up you shouldn't be saying that
@@Jahm-u8o
Why not?
I read the novel. One of the scenes that I understand why it didn't show up in the movie. But I miss so much from the book. Back when everybody was hiding in the attic they watched a polar bear wander into town and the vampires killed it with pack tactics which is when a lot of the characters lost hope. If a polar bear can't win against them, what chance does anybody else have?
Well in a 2007 movie with the budget that they had that bear fight would just see janky and completely out of character for the rest of the movie so I think we where better off without it.
@@Henrik_Holst like I said, I understand why it didn't end up in the movie.
You should have read the original comic books by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith. This movie is based specifically on the graphic novels.
Kat, I'm so glad you watched 30 Days of Night! It's one of the best movies based off a graphic novel series. The artwork in the graphic novel is visceral and evocative and the movie really captures the feel of the graphic novel. Thanks for watching the best of the Josh Hartnett vehicles!
YES YES YEEESSS. SO GOOD SO NASTY TERRIFYING! 😈😱
I didn't know that and I love this movie. Ty for mentioning it, I will be reading :)
This was a savage movie. The vampires were feral, possibly the most terrifying ever committed to film.
It really was brutal and cruel
And it was produced by the legend Sam Raimi
Feral is not scary. Intelligent is.
The black eyes, the shrieks and the serrated teeth. Truly frightening.
have you seen 'stakeland'?
Victim: "ooh god!!!"
Vampire leader: "God?" Looks up then around "No God."
Epic.
Shut up
The victim actually says “ god help me “
@@catpleb2574 just paraphrased. Still a Hell of a scene! Very underrated film. Wish it would have gotten a proper sequel instead of what we ended up with.
@@buddykaiser2380 true tho, cus it was horrible.
I go through withdrawals each week waiting for Kat's horror movie reactions
I do too she's additive
@@tonyporenshenko425 like sugar additives? 😆
Agreed. Kat does it again.
Agreed. I love her channel haha.
I know. She's the best one out there. I hope her channel grows and grows.
30:10 Also another thing that is pretty generally accepted in vampiric mythos is that the older they are, the stronger they get. He had no chance in a one on one fight vs an elder vampire... as shown. Yet he won... cause the elder was playing with him. Vanity as I said.
16:14 "Piss in the corner pal." Pragmatic Kat showing off her leadership skills. 😂
So happy you got around to seeing this, it’s one of my favourite vampire movies. You asked where it was shot, it was made in Auckland down here in New Zealand. A team from Weta Workshop (where I work) did all the gory and vampire effects. We do still have one of the dead huskies on the wall in the mould making dept. I didn’t get a chance to work on this one, but I did work on “Daybreakers” a year or so later, which is also a fun vampire movie.
I was really enjoying the effects, what great work everyone did 👍I had a friend take a trip to NZ last fall, the Weta Workshop was on her wish list of places to visit and would be her absolute dream job (she works in theater/scenery/props)
Daybreakers is another underappreciated gem!
so that's why there's so many Kiwi actors in it I thought it was weird seeing the old receptionist from Shortland Street in the 90s in this film
I wish we got more of Ben Foster in this. He’s always such a brilliant character actor 👌
Not enough Ben Foster, the true horror of this movie. Dude kills it in everything he is in, every single time.
@@EarnestEgregore He is SO GOOD at being super effing creepy!
@@raputathebutahes like a more disturbed Giovanni Ribisi
The ancients studied Kat-jitsu, to protect themselves against all forms of natural and supernatural threat. Advanced students could chop threats in several directions per second, and utter terrifying warscreams... ;-)
I've seen this film lots of times but never heard that line in a comical way...."Knock, Knock". You made me laugh, thank you.
I love this movie so much I go between this and Let The Right One In as my favorite Vampire movie, if I'm in the mood for more Drama than Let The Right One In is my favorite but if I'm in the mood for Action and more Vampire murder than 30 Days Of Night is my favorite
Such an underappreciated horror movie. It's considered one of the last real vampire movies before the Twilight franchise kicked off a year later and turned vampires and werewolves into emo teens. If you want a good werewolf movie, I HIGHLY recommend "Dog Soldiers". Great reaction as always.
Yeah, Dog Soldiers is well worth a look. As is another Neil Marshall film, Doomsday.
Yep. I think this really deserved a trip to Alaska for an "environment watch". ⛄
I used to think I was totally over vampire films, until I watched "Let me in" and this one. Real chills down my spine.
You mean "Let the Right One In". Lol, the remakes never capture the essence of the original.
@@phousefilms I think they released it to DVD with different titles. I mean definetely the US version. The original Swedish is the lesser movie I think. In the Swedish version the performances of the kids are not that good, the practical effects seem way cheaper and not that acomplished, plus the sexual abuse subplot is creepier in a no good way and doesnt add anything meaingful, only shock value. And I say this coming from someone that usually prefers original versions over the US remake, "The girl with the dragon tatoo" is an example.
Now would not be a fun time to visit if you hate the cold!!! It's so cold in many places this already this year... I wouldn't want to be in any of the coldest states!!
she NEEDS to watch those, at least one
@@winterfell_foreverI personally hate movies that lean heavily on psychopath kid bullies that somehow travel in packs. Stephen King's works were full of them, then modern media took that idea and fucking hauled ass with it.
I'm sorry but I don't think Hollywood would understand how quickly the general population *wouldn't* be putting up with kids carving their names into other kids. My kid starts doing some Henry Bowers shit, he'd be in a padded room so quick his fuckin head would spin.
What a great start to the year! I'm happy you really enjoyed this movie, it just gets overlooked a lot. The premise is so perfect it's crazy it took a long as it did for someone to use it.
This is where I of course recommend Ready Or Not again! But I have a second recommendation that's not for the channel. There's a show that's about 10 years old now called Penny Dreadful, which Josh Hartnett is in. It's a Gothic horror show that I think you'd really enjoy watching on your own time.
Penny Dreadful was so good, we didn't deserve it lol... I feel the same way about Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
I really really enjoyed Ready or Not. Samara Weaving is fantastic. I revisit that one at least once a year.
As someone who works up on the North Slope of Alaska, and is currently in the depths of polar night (and a wicked blizzard), there are no vampires here. We promise.
Hmmmm that sounds suspiciously like something a vampire would say
Yup, definitely full of vampires up there.
@@blurryeyes316 All lies. But everyone is currently hiring for winter. Please send strong, skilled workers.
@@harmontpYou vampires are a clever lot, aren't you? Changing up your tactics, smart move! But we're on to you! We're on to you, I say!
"Push him in his stupid little wound!" Darkside Kat is the best Kat! LOL
This is a vampire gem. No romance or sparkling skin, just straight up savage predators only concerned with feeding.
I'm so happy you saw this! One of the best reinterpretations of vampires in a long time!
The head vampire was quite well read: Quoting polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski: "When man meets a force he can't destroy, he destroys himself instead. What a plague you are.", and quoting Dmitri Pisarev "What can be broken, must be broken." (Anything that isn't strong enough to endure wear, needs destroying and replacing... to weed out all the weaknesses)
SUCH an underrated vampire flick on all accounts. Without question, it is definitely one of my all-time favorite vampire movies to sit alongside Blade as an adaptation of graphic novels or mainstream comics. The design, the personalized language, the setting, and the unique plot line that kicked off this horror adventure. I'm so glad we got the opportunity to join this first-watch ride with you, Kat, and look forward to many more as this brand-new year unfolds. Happy New Year to you and loved one's and hope it was a celebration to remember.
The cinematography is so polished on this film.
So many mythos about Vamps, yet I think they agree aways on 3 ways to kill them. 1: Fire (to ash, they can survive most), 2: Decapitation, 3: Sunlight. The rest varies a lot...
Danny Houston was a iconic BILLY BAD ASS Vampire!!
Such a radically different first and second half to this movie, and both work on different levels. That tracking shot across the town when the initial slaughter happens is still incredible and chaotic - I'd like to think I'd be one of the people that kept their head and got clear, but most of the corpses probably thought that too lol.
In a situation with things that have super strength and speed hunting you I feel like for most people it would boil down to luck, because even with a cool head on your shoulders if one of those things comes around a corner and you don't have serious distance between you, it's gonna close that gap like a jaguar and be eating you before you can even finish spinning to run... people struggle to conceptualize just how fast predators like big cats can move when they want to, which is why people die on safari (more frequently than they should) opening the car door to take pictures of the animals they think are a "safe" distance away
That ending where they hug by sunset, as he goes. The sorrow still hits so hard. Still one of my favorites.
I appreciated the intelligent vampire treatment in this movie; it makes them more savage. The tactic of reserving citizens to deploy later draw out survivors was masterful.
First we see the young woman walking about insufficiently dressed for the cold, actively calling for help. Then the young girl alone, several days later, not uttering a word.
The vamps understand human compulsion to help another in need and ratchet up that urge by using the young girl after the adult woman.
Also, the vamps setting the town aflame, to cover their tracks would have investigative agencies conclude all residents died in a tragic accident.
5:39 This made me laugh out loud. My grandma does not respect that boundary at all. She's still good friends with my uncles ex from the 90s
It’s this, “Blood Red Sky”, & “Last Voyage Of The Demeter” that have the scariest vampires to me
The lead actress Melissa George is in an awesome horror/thriller 'Triangle' from '2009' that's a total mind trip.
Yay! Now you can start a Vampires playlist. Other great vamp movies include Let Me In/Let the Right One In, Fright Night (new or old version), John Carpenter's Vampires, From Dusk Til Dawn, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Daybreakers...that's just off the top of my head. Can't go wrong with vampires!
I love 30 Days of Night. The vamps are so brutal and animalistic. I'd say this is a very underrated movie that made vamps scary again. 🖤🧛♀️
Andy Warhol's Blood for Dracula
The fearless Vampire Killers
Deathmaster
Near Dark
The Hunger
Interview with the Vampire (1994) is a must see this year for it's 30th.
We Are The Night is one of my personal favorites and more lighthearted as vampire movies go but still dark, gory and horror genre. I think Kat would especially appreciate the all girl vampires in it.
Kat meets 30 Days of Night! Yes! This film is of the savage strain of vampire! If you ever dive into series format, then the go-to is adapted from the trilogy of novels, The Strain on FX. 30 Days of Night is itself adapted from a comic book miniseries that is a must-read! Barrows, Alaska! Snow, cold, vampires! What more can you ask for! And really, Melissa George has got to make more genre films!
I remember listening to the commentary for this and they said that the vampiric language used here was a patchwork language of several ancient ones, invented by a linguistics professor they consulted. It's very clever, subverting the "Eastern European" accent we tend to expect.
The knuckle sandwich crack was pure champagne comedy. Bravo!
This is absoulutely one of my favorite vampire movies, and I am so glad the ending hit the same for you. Another Josh Hartnett horror movie is The Faculty which I highly recommend, I also recommend Dawn of the Dead (2004) which has great character relationships and the simple plot formula that seems right up your alley. Love every upload!
The Faculty is a pretty fun watch.. id never made the connection that he was in that till I read your comment! He was also great in a black mirror episode
Thats my fav vampire movie. I clicked on this video soooo fast. Kat you are amazing! Thank you for all your hard work. 😄
Now that I've been watching Kat every time I watch a horror movie I start yelling "what's your plan" lol and also "LET'S GO!😂
I also say "and that's the really horror of this movie" when applicable.
One of the best vampire movies for sure only watched this again a few weeks ago but watched again along with you ❤😂your so cool i love your comments and movie reactions more movies please .
Whoever is giving you recommendations is doing a great job!
I’m so happy you watched this one! I was OBSESSED when this came out. It’s one of my favorite horror movies, and one of the best vampire movies ever made. You’re right, it had a simple premise and they executed it so well. Fun fact: They invented a new language for this movie. How the vampires communicate with each other is very guttural and primal sounding. Most of them are ancient. Oh, and the ending gets me emotional every time. Eben’s sacrifice 😭
I love it: about 100 years of vampire movies and now this premise! I guess there were no film makers from above the arctic circle? Best Kat-ism: "He's gonna spend a fortune on that in therapy."
Underrated horror that I'm surprised more people haven't reacted to. Requesting 70's The Hills Have Eyes and then the 2000's one.
Love love love this movie! Those aerial shots through the town when they're all fighting are so awesome!
Your reaction to one of my favourite horror movies was awesome. I like how you appreciate so many aspects of the movie including the score which really sets the tone of this movie. Ben foster is so chilling and the last scene of the movie is truly chefs kiss. To sit with the one you love for one last sunrise while they turn to ash is on another level. Now on to tremors
Thank you for the reaction, Kat. I wish you a very scary 2024! 😊
Your channel is consistently becoming my new favorite. I loved horror flicks for alot of years when I was younger and alot of the movies you're watching are from that time in my life. As I've gotten older and movies have gotten more cookie cutter it's hard to find films that live outside of that mold and have substance. Especially in the horror genre. So it's pretty great re-watching some of my favorites with someone who quite vocally hates horror movies. But as I watch you on this journey I see you pick elements from movies that you find beautiful or brilliant and that's what makes good movies good. Take this movie for instance, yeah it's the old vampire movie trope. But.... It stays dark for a month and leaves no respite from the onslaught of monsters. It's such a small twist on the vampire genre but it's so effective.
So glad I found your channel.
One of my absolute faves and I'm happy you reacted to it and loved it. Thank you
30 Days of Night is one of my personal all time favorite vampire movies!!! This is what real vampire films are made of..., not like that Twilight garbage which came out a year after this one.
First time you've done a reaction to a horror movie that I haven't seen before and a good one at that. Thanks for the rare treat.
Another great reaction Kat! Forgot how violent this one is. Now you’ve got to watch The Crazies (2010) for another not-zombie-movie-but-kinda-is-zombie-movie!
Today I Learned: this movie was Produced by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert. No wonder it's so good! I mean, on top of having a great cast AND a great concept, that is. I'm pretty sure I have this on DVD so I think I'll have to dig it out and rewatch it now.
And since they filmed in New Zealand, we have at least one actor that we've seen in other Sam Raimi productions. Joel Toebeck from Hercules and Xena Warrior Princess.
I can't believe I've never seen this movie before! Love Kat's videos because with most of them I'm either watching her watch things I'm really nostalgic about or I'm experiencing some awesome movies for the first time with her through her videos :D Feels like a little slumber party lmao
That teary eyed look you had at the end. Wow. Thank you for appreciating this movie..
i have been waiting for you to watch this. this is one of my favorite horror movies/vampire movies of all time! I watch this like once every few months.
If for nothing else this movie deserves credit for that overhead shot of the all out attack on the town. One of my favorite choices I've seen in a film.
I love your reactions... the wise cracks (i.e. who's there) keeps a perpetual half smile on my face and then I love how you show real emotion when a movie gets to you. You really get invested in the characters in well made movies. Added bonus for today -I had never seen this movie before.. and now I don't have to. The Kat Kondensed Cliff Notes version will be sufficient.
Good job whoever recommended this. And good job Kat for following their advice!
I am so glad I found your channel. Your reactions are so great! This is one of my all time favorite vampire movies - and I usually watch it whenever we get our first major snowstorm of the year. The reason they were burning the town at the end was to cover their tracks. That way it would have looked like a tragic accident (fire) as opposed to vampire attack.
Such a great vampire/horror movie. Very underrated and very well done. Great acting and directing
*"American Gothic" (1988). Starring Yvonne de Carlo, from Vancouver, BC (Lily Munster). And "Teeth" (2007). Awesome revenge horror*
Your smile and reactions literally put me in a better mood 😂
Dog Soldiers is similar in plot and I think you’ll enjoy it
And Brotherhood of the Wolf is amazing
I tear up too at the ending, every stinking time.. we were all waiting for you to follow suit haha
I would love to see you react to the lovely bones. It’s not horror per say more of a thriller but I know you would enjoy the beautiful look the film has
Let the right one in. Great Swedish film Kat.
This is hand down one of my
favorite new vampire flicks next to Stake Land. It’s especially brutal knowing that the cold makes pain 10x worse!
Great to see someone reacting to this movie. Love this film. Great commentary Kat
Screaming in the New Year with Kat!! I love it!!!
4:05: They filmed this in New Zealand, so a lot of the supporting cast are Kiwi actors. Some of the locations are where I go hiking every now and again, except it doesn't snow there.
one of my fave horror movies. it is the best vampire movies. you should at least checkout this list dear Kat:
The Others (2001)
Wrong Turn (2003)
Shutter (2004) - foreign
House of Wax (2005)
Silent Hill (2006)
When a Strangers Calls (2006)
Rec (2007) - foreign
Vacancy (2007)
The Messengers (2007)
The Orphanage (2007) - foreign
I am Legend (2007)
The Strangers (2008)
Triangle (2009)
Orphan (2009)
Frozen (2010)
Julia's Eyes (2010) - foreign
The Crazies (2010)
Devil (2010)
Stake Land (2010)
Legion (2010)
The Rite (2011)
20:14 And of course Vamps must be wise/smart, for they have lived for so long. They excel at pretty much anything, specially the arts. Yet there are flicks that portrait them as some wild thing, almost like a blood lusting animal that can be fooled like any other animal. Yet of course, they are vane, for they are pretty and immortal, and that is also taken sometimes as their Aquiles heel.
Kat, if you want to see more of 90's hearthrob Josh Harnett. Check out The Faculty (1997)
Wasn't he in the Virgin suicides also?
@@emilykeegan4345Yeah with Kirsten Dunst. I know I saw it but I don't remember what genre it was.
@@trotter73ca depressing, pretty much.. good movie and the book is pretty good also
It's My first time watching it was amazing. I had meant to watch it a long time ago but never did. So thanks it was even better watch it with you. Fun watch ❤
This movie, man. Couldn’t tell you how many times I have seen it. One of my faves.
I love vamp movies in general, and this is one of my favorites. Love your reactions Kat!
It's such a fantastic movie. The main vampire is so sinister and slick (no pun intended) and the ending made me cry as well. It's so good all around
Recommending this movie to Twilight fans was one of my supreme joys of the 2000's.
Josh Hartnett is definitely one of the sexiest men alive, and he was a good actor too. We truly missed out when he took his long break from acting.
I think you will love "Night of the Creeps" , "Dead Alive" , "Nightbreed" and "Phantasm " you won't be disappointed
All top notch!
Only the Directors cut of the movie Nightbreed. That is the only version worth watching. Because it is the only version of the movie that is what was actually in the script or screenplay. It was the only version that they actually filmed.
The movie studio interfered an mutilated it after it was filmed. Into a completely different movie On the audio commentary an bonus features for the Directors cut of Nightbreed. Clive Barker an every single person that worked on the movie on screen an behind the scenes says this.
Kat watching “Night of the Creeps?” Thrill me.
Love this film! they shot it in New Zealand and it holds the record for most fake snow used in a film! Apparently the actors were sweating and dropping from heat stroke filming it. they had to create custom crop top snow jackets to film all the close up scenes so the actors could wear all the heavy coats as little as possible!
This was very underrated. The vampires were hunting to feed. Then cover it up by burning the town down.
Why is this movie So underrated? It’s a top 5 scariest horror movie for me. I wasn’t expecting this
Brilliant reaction Kat your a diamond, i love this movie the snowy isolation setting adds a moody atmosphere, good story, great characters & well directed.
Highly recommend Blade, John Carpenter's Vampires too gorertastic vampire flicks.
This is one of my all-time faves - thanks Kat!
So glad you did this one! One of the best vampire flicks of all time.
First movie of the year and it's the one I recommended, thanks so much Kat!!!
I am so happy that you loved this movie, and I'm trying to not get greedy, but I'd like you to watch 'Incident in a Ghostland' (or just 'Ghostland').
I don't want to spoil much of the story because the direction, writing and acting on this movie is fantastic, but is a suspense horror movie where a mother of two teenagers inherits a home from her Aunt, and things start to get tense and strange. This movie it's one of a kind and I'm sure you are going to love it.
Have my best wishes for this new year and best regards from Uruguay!
I just binge watched about 10 or 12 of your movie reactions, from a year or so ago to very recent. I have really enjoyed them all, and you are hysterically entertaining, so I had to finally subscribe! In one of those videos you brought up the movie DELIVERANCE. While I would never classify that as a horror movie, it still would qualify for your channel I feel. Besides, it's actually quite a high quality classic 70s film full of suspense. I think you'd enjoy it, and I'd certainly enjoy watching your reaction! However, there is an underrated bonafide horror gem from that same year that you definitely SHOULD see, and that is DEATHDREAM, and it's by the same director that did Black Christmas which you recently reacted to. He also directed A Christmas Story. You can thank me later. Great job, young lady! I look forward to more from you! 😎👍
Thank you for reviewing this! It is just one of my favorite movies! Now you need to watch Howl!
Thanks for watching this Kat.. This is one of if not my favorite all time vampire movies & my favorite graphic novel series, which is what it is based off of. So glad you watched this. It doesn't get enough recognition in my opinion. Much love..❤
I was glad to see you were reacting to this. It is sadly a kinda unknown and underrated film. I thought it was great and really well done.
The pan over shot down the street with just absolute chaos going on. Huge streaks of blood and multiple Shotgun blasts. Saw it in theater and just left me stunned.
A Vampire movie that I could imagine you loving is innocent blood and it's from the early 90s.
Love the reaction. This is my top 4 vampire movies along with the Lost Boys, from dusk till dawn, and let the right one in.
What if it would have been 6 months of night? Good movie kind of like a zombie combined with The Thing movie. In real life all the people in that town would have been killed, unless a miracle took place. Kat's reaction is priceless.
Goodnight Mommy is a must watch