Hi everyone.    Tried to set up a blog on my web page 'jonathonwise.com' but what can I say - I'm no programmer.    So here you go.    This (at least for the time being) will be my blog.    In case you don't know me I'm a horror/thriller writer.    I have two books in print right now 'Touches' and 'I Am Maker', with several more to follow.  

With that out of the way I thought I'd let you know my thoughts on a pretty good horror movie I just saw '30 Days of Night'.    This is a damn good dark horror movie.    If you haven't already seen it then you ought to fork out a few bucks and check it out.     This movie is almost exactly how I'd write it.    Without giving anything away - there's only a few changes I would have made.  

1) The timing of when our hero makes his move (or sacrifice) to save the woman he loves.    I think it would have had a greater impact if he'd done it with more than just a few hours of darkness left.   If he'd done it with say 10 or 11 days of darkness left under the assumption that the only way ANY of them were going to make it is if he were to take such a drastic action - would have been better.  

2) I thought that if I were one of the vampires, and knowing that 90-95% of the people were dead within the first night - that I'd probably move on to another small town where the fresh meat would be easy pick'ins again.    The vampires expended a lot of energy over the next 25+ days for just a few fresh bodies.  3) And this one goes for all vampire movies - if I were to write a vampire story, the folks who were "changed" wouldn't have the fangs, intolerance to sunlight, superhuman strength... right after being changed.    Instead they'd have an insatiable appetite for blood and be ruthless killers, but it would take years for them to change into the vampires that turned them (fangs, sunlight...).

But as I said, I thought this movie was a pretty damn good one.    Keep in mind it is dark, but on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being a great movie) I'd give '30 Days of Night' a solid 4.    If you're in to vampire movies then this is one you can't afford to miss.

If you've seen the movie or have any thoughts on my comments, then please give me a post.   

I'm going to post updates on my writing, movies/books that I've read (or are upcoming) and just general observations that I pick up and think are worth sharing.

Hope to talk to you soon, J/W