The Hollywood Reporter is running an article that looks at how “30 Days of Night” is set to reinvigorate the vampire in America by making them scary again, comparing the film with “28 Days Later” and it’s reinvention of the zombie genre.

The movie rejiggers the vampire story in a way that “28 Days Later,” the 2002 horror movie directed by Danny Boyle, reinvented the zombie story. Until then, zombies were slow-moving, brain-eating creatures. Boyle turned them into fast-moving, fury-filled monsters. That movie’s success shook up the cobwebbed genre, with remakes, sequels and imitators flooding the market. “30 Days” could do the same for vampire movies.