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30 Days of Night: Dark Days
You know your screening has not exactly gone over brilliantly when there are virtually no questions for the director and two leading ladies, one of whom says she just finished two buckets of beer at the Alamo and not a soul doubts her.
Such was the case with the pro-forma “30 Dyas of Night: Dark Days,” the sequel to the ultra-high-concept comic book adaptation from 2007. (Vampires invade Barrow, Alaska, where it is sunless for about a month. Carnage ensues.)
“Dark Days” is essentially “Aliens” to the first movie’s “Alien” — this time, we hunt them. There are visual shout-outs to “Aliens” all over the place, from steam-filled rooms to someone on a hook mumbling “Kill me.”
Kiele Sanchez, in attendance at the Alamo, takes over the part of Stella Oleson, originally by Melissa George. She is traveling the lecture circuit, hunting vampires with UV lights and trying to tell everyone they exist. (I was kind of hoping to hear Metallica’s “Hit the Lights” when she actually says that, but I don’t think it’s in there.)
She meets up with Harold Perrineau, Rhys Coiro (the nutty director on “Entourage”) and Diora Baird (in attendance, the one with the beers), who want to recruit her to hunt vamps. This time in Los Angeles (where it is the opposite of dark most of the time) to extract revenge on vamp queen Lilith (Mia Kirshner, thanks for dropping by). There are some lovely beheadings and vamp cooking, and the audience cheered appropriately at the bloodbaths.
Director Ben Ketai seems like a swell guy and, as the Alamo’s host noted, we were all in the mood for vampires who did not sparkle, but there werw few questions for him. We did learn that a very cheery Baird “peed a little” when she shot the Uzi. She was also very nice about posing for pictures with fans.
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