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All parent reviews for 30 Days of Night

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14
Parent of 22, 24, and 27 year old
November 9, 2008
 
the movie is scary
it is cool

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Adult
January 16, 2011
 
This movie was great! Very scary and gruesome, there's not much sex or profanity but still it's considered to be an R-rated film i myself liked it very much, so if you got kids age 15 or above and they want this film, be sure to talk to them first about it or watch it first.

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Adult
March 19, 2009
 
Graphic yet amazing!
This movie was great. The ending was very unexpected. It makes me cry everytime and when I cry it means it's a good movie. The plot was good. Plus the guy is a cutie. It's not good for children under the age of 15. I'm 16. and this movie has got me buy chain. I Love It!

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Adult
October 30, 2010
 
Very intense!!
Extremely intense and bloody, it is still a fascinating movie. If your teens like horror, they will love this movie.

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Adult
May 26, 2010
 
This is a horribly scary movie! Only for adults and even then I'd say only those who truely love scary movies. My friends and I went to see it in theatres and I hid behind my friends jacket for most of the movie!

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Adult
June 3, 2009
 
NOT a kids movie
I saw this on cable and was surprised that it was pretty good. The issue is the repeted gore throughout the movie. Up there with Hostle and Saw.I'm not bothered by that stuff but this movie almost goes overboard.If you like that kind of flick you will like this.

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Adult
November 6, 2008
 
An adult version of Twilight, but worse.
I seen this movie last weekend for Halloween. In, the beginning automatically, it's scary. Tons of blood. Is a very good vampire movie, but I am more interested in Twilight. This movie is rated R, but on some terms it's basically knowing your kid and if they can take the blood, or flesh being burned right in front of your face on screen. I normally don't get nightmares, but had them for about 2 days. Not really scary, just tons of blood and curssing.

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Adult
August 11, 2009
 
NO KIDS (and stupid)
i think you would my probaly have to be my age to see this movie NO KIDS

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Adult
March 22, 2009
 
great movie

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Adult
December 4, 2008
 
Wow
This movie is very gross and graphic.But it's thrilling and exciting!Please don't let the children watch it however.

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April 9, 2008
 

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April 9, 2008
 
31 days too long
Garbage.

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April 9, 2008
 
Great Vampire Horror
I enjoyed the plot and storyline. The unique Alaskan winter setting, where the sun doesn't come up for 30 days, really adds a frightening dimension to the movie. Vampires were portrayed in their most simplest and barbaric state, with very little need for lengthy dialogue, which is quite appropriate for their characters. I would not recommend this movie for younger viewers, as it is very graphically violent. However, I do appreciate the bird's eye camera view of vampires attacking Barrow's citizens. It added to the horror. This is a great horror flick. Just when you thought that you've seen every type of vampire movie and that there couldn't be any more variety, this flick refreshes and renews the vampire movie genre. I highly recommend it for adults.

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April 9, 2008
 
A must for any one who loves vampire movies
Great movie. Scared me. Don't let young children see this.

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
Amazing but Gory
I absolutely love horror movies and this movie completely fueled that. It was rather gory but the storyline was amazing and the make up and comstuming really help you believe in the vampires. I would caution against taking any kids younger than 16 to this movie, unless you know they're okay with the gore. It does have an underlying story between the main character, his soon to be ex-wife and his younger brother. While i didn't like the ending at least it kept true to the graphic novels.

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
Not the reinvetnion I wanted, but still entertaining and inventive
I'd like to get one piece of content out of the way-- violence. Yes, the film was quite gory, though not in the splat-pack sense or extreme (splat-pack is the term used to describe movies such as Hostel and Saw.) But the film didn't really reach gratuity with its gore until the movie hit the half-way point-- until then, most of the violence actually occurred off-screen, and we only saw the aftermath. One scene took place completely under a house, so we couldn't see the violence at all, and were left to use our imagination-- something that moviemakers are starting to realize is better. However, this positive trend was eventually dashed, and as much as I'd like to defend the movie, I concede that the gore quotient got out of hand the nearer the movie reached its climax. Outside of that though, there was your basic level of R-worthy profanity, but not anything constant like in Good Will Hunting or Platoon. And as CSM said, there was some interplay bewtween two vampires, but nothing actually physical or sexual, just an eerieness which was meant to show the humanity of vampires, and also add a level of tension that comes from weird scenes. Outside of content, the movie wasn't really the reinvention of the vampire genre like 28 Days and 28 Weeks Later did for the zombie film (CSM gave 28 Weeks Later two stars, but I highly disagree with this, as do just about all the critics.) Despite this, I still found plenty of innovation in the interaction between vampires and plot points (the concept aloneof being stranded in 30 days of darkness with vampires was good enough to warrant curiousity). Things such as vampires having their own language-- which makes sense, as they are, in a sense, their own race of creatures, and wouldn't be talking in plain English the whole movie-- add levels of not neccessarily depth, but reality or believability to the movie, and made for a more entertaining experience. In a way, I still consider this probably one of the better vampire flicks I've seen (really a 3 and 1/2 star movie, but I don't have that option), and it is a modernization of the genre, it just wasn't up to the mark that it seemed it would reach. I reccommend this to anyone who thinks they're interested-- because with this sort of movie, you're either going to see it, or you won't-- you're not going to be convinced otherwise.And no, this had nothing to do with Stephen King, it was based on a graphic novel-- I'm not sure where the below reviewer got his information.

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
Pretty stupid and boring
This movie wasn't that great it was really bloody and violent but if your kids are 15 or older and mature enough to handle these kind of movies then let them go see it but it isn't a very good movie. So i'd wait for the DVD if you really want to see it.

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
was o.k
All this movie really is, is gore galore!! I saw this movie with my mom and my boyfriend. My mom thought it was a dumb, pointless movie that ended bad, my boyfriend liked it because he likes vampire movies and I didn't like it so much. I thought the storyline was good and it all made sense and was played out well, but I didn't like all the blood and gore because im not into that sorta stuff. Honestly, I spent most of the movie with my head burried in my boyfriend's shoulder terrified...which I'm sure he didn't have a problem with. lol

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
what is wrong with you people??
i'm 15 and i went to see this movie the other night with some friends. we're not sheltered and we're not innocent, and we loved this movie. i really liked this movie, because aside from the nature of it (it's a horror movie, people, duh it's going to be violent, gory, and languagy) the story wasn't horrible and there were actually some pretty decent special effects in there. this movie is NOT a bad movie! DUH its not for kids, its rated R, but people, as parents you should know your kids well enough to know if they can handle a movie like this! i see movies like this all the time: it's not the most violent movie i've seen. it's my PARENTS who shouldn't be allowed to see movies like this. it's not real people, don't judge it as reality, it's a movie and a really entertaining one at that. i understand that this website is for concerned parents, etc, but i got an account just so i could post this and hopefully talk some sense into you people, which is insane, because this is COMMONSENSE MEDIA. com. there's a difference between having common sense and condeming a movie just because of some violence, gore and the R rating.

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
Must avoid at all COSTS this will make you feel satanic!!!
Nuff said! all that happens in this movie is this: the vamps come and eat almost everyone. People hide and then they move, a few get eaten and they do it again and again until 4 out of the original 152 are alive and one of them injected vamp blood into his veigns to fight them at the very end. So there's only three left at the end. Its a sick twisted perversion of a demonic mind twisting terror that will make you want to rip your eyes out and drown yourself in holy water to try to forget.

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