30 Days of Night proved that just because vampires aren’t usually the first choice for feral scares and are commonly depicted as sophisticated, if evil aristocrats, doesn’t mean they should never be considered for more visceral horror stories. But what really made the movie’s unique take on the lore engaging was the terrifying language the vampires spoke, which sounded human enough yet entirely monstrous to have viewers wondering where they came from.30 Days of Night took place in the Alaskan town of Barrow, which was so far North that the residents were subjected to a month of total darkness. For the most part, the town lived in relative peace with little to no issues. However, everything changed when a strange man entered the town and brought with him a family of vampires. The town was forced to band together for most of the month to fend off the supernatural threat, even though they barely understood who or what they were fighting. But what made the vampires even more terrifying was that while they may have appeared human, they acted and spoke in a way that was anything but.According to director David Slade, 30 Days of Night’s language wasn’t based on any language that existed. With the help of a linguistics professor, the 30 Days of Night language was created by using click consonants and roars. Rather than create a detailed collection of words, the language was simplified to a “yes-and-no” dialogue tree to give the vampires the best and easiest range in terms of how they conveyed their language to one another. This simplified lingual system also helped the vampires’ actors, since they used body language and facial expressions instead of dialogue spoken in a contemporary language to express bringing their characters to life. More importantly, the simplified terms also helped make the creatures terrifying.
30 Days of Night proved that just because vampires aren’t usually the first choice for feral scares and are commonly depicted as sophisticated, if evil aristocrats, doesn’t mean they should never be considered for more visceral horror stories. But what really made the movie’s unique take on the lore engaging was the terrifying language the vampires spoke, which sounded human enough yet entirely monstrous to have viewers wondering where they came from.
30 Days of Night took place in the Alaskan town of Barrow, which was so far North that the residents were subjected to a month of total darkness. For the most part, the town lived in relative peace with little to no issues. However, everything changed when a strange man entered the town and brought with him a family of vampires. The town was forced to band together for most of the month to fend off the supernatural threat, even though they barely understood who or what they were fighting. But what made the vampires even more terrifying was that while they may have appeared human, they acted and spoke in a way that was anything but.
According to director David Slade, 30 Days of Night’s language wasn’t based on any language that existed. With the help of a linguistics professor, the 30 Days of Night language was created by using click consonants and roars. Rather than create a detailed collection of words, the language was simplified to a “yes-and-no” dialogue tree to give the vampires the best and easiest range in terms of how they conveyed their language to one another. This simplified lingual system also helped the vampires’ actors, since they used body language and facial expressions instead of dialogue spoken in a contemporary language to express bringing their characters to life. More importantly, the simplified terms also helped make the creatures terrifying.
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