30 Days of Night: **½ (out of a possible **** stars)

The idea is clever and the scenery and setting are beautiful (Alaska), and my wife squealed several times so I guess it’s actually fairly scary as well...but there just wasn’t much that was new in 30 days that you haven’t seen a dozen times before in better vampire flicks. The vampires themselves looked kind of goofy at times (though I do give props for using real actors rather than computers), and much of the violence was over-the-top and pointlessly graphic. Could have been worse, I guess.