Blockbusters and Birdwalks
At Blockbusters and Birdwalks, you’ll listen to reviews and conversations about all kinds of movies, from Academy Award winners to exploitation masterpieces with a mix of commercial hits and obscure favorites thrown in for good measure. The point is recognizing that movies present our culture with the building blocks of social memory, enabling each of us to enjoy ourselves because movies are fun.
Blockbusters and Birdwalks
Comic Book Movies, a conversation – “30 Days of Night”
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
This is part of a series about movies based on comic books.
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Referenced media:
- “Twilight” (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)
- “Interview with the Vampire” (Rolin Jones, 2022)
- “World War Z” (Marc Forster, 2013)
- “Beloved” (Jonathan Demme, 1998)
- “The Last Samurai” (Edward Zwick, 2003)
- “The Last of the Mohicans” (Michael Mann, 1992)
- “28 Days Later” (Danny Boyle, 2002)
- “30 Days of Night” (2002) by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith
- “30 Days of Night: Dark Days” (Ben Ketai, 2010)
- “30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow” (2004) by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith
- “30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales” (2005) by Steve Niles, Matt Fraction, Kody Chamberlain, and Ben Templesmith
- “The Walking Dead” (2003-2019) by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore
- “The Thing” (John Carpenter, 1982)
- “The Terrifier 3” (Damien Leone, 2024)
- “Smile 2” (Parker Finn, 2024)
- “Near Dark” (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987)
- “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams” (Charles E. Sellier, Jr., 1977-1978)
Audio quotation:
- “30 Days of Night” (David Slade, 2007), including music composed by Brian Reitzell, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLohYzz4btpaQvWrny4rQixCHDjuGwFr0e
- “Axe blow to the flesh (sound effect)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-_0GkjAoYY