hello everyone and welcome back to my channel where I cover vampires werewolves and other
supernatural creatures in this video we're going to look at the movie 30 Days of Night
and its sequel 30 Days of Night Dark Days more specifically I want to dive into a
couple mysteries about this series that I've always wanted answers to the movies were based
off a comic book series of the same name created by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith there's also
a few novels now and I read everything to uncover some really interesting stuff the
comic series in the film focus on a simple but interesting premise a group of vampires descend
on a town of Barrow Alaska during their annual 30 days of polar night I want to
dive into two questions I've always had about this story why did the vampires choose Alaska
as a hunting ground and was the queen Lilith truly the first vampire if you enjoy videos
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the vampires traveled to Alaska on a large ship they send in a human familiar before the vampires
to help cut the town off from the rest of the world this familiar proceeds to sabotage the
helicopter kill the sled dogs and he burned all the cell phones this would allow the vampires to
hunt freely and not have to worry about humans calling for help or trying to get away once the
town was cut off the vampires proceeded to kill the residents in a brutal fashion the
big question is why did they choose this town in Alaska at first I thought that possibly they'd
been hunting in Alaska for a long time because of the Polar night but the vampire Merlot says this
we should have come here ages ago suggesting this is their first time we actually get an answer to
this question in the comic book they didn't go to Alaska because they needed food they went there
because it was cut off from the world and they could hunt however they want and for weeks on
end so like I said it wasn't a matter of food it was a matter of fun the leader of these vampires
is Roderick Marlowe he told the other vampires to sever the heads of the victims because they
don't want to turn anyone they're here to kill and that's it the vampires are portrayed as
formidable monstrous nearly feral entities even down to the way they move a stark contrast from
the seductive elegant beings often portrayed in traditional vampire lore vampires such as Marlow
have slightly more human features but others have a physical appearance that is jarringly inhuman
with sharp distorted faces they have pale skin solid black eyes and Sport a full set of sharp
teeth rather than just two fangs like traditional vampires their teeth are perfect for ripping
and tearing flesh which makes them all the more terrifying imagine being bit by this guy [Music]
the vampires from 30 Days of Night can turn someone by biting them, scratching them or
by giving them some of their blood to drink this man was only scratched but he still turned into
a vampire Eben also turned himself by injecting vampire blood the transformation is described as
feeling like your blood is on fire but it happens rather quickly within a few minutes Vampires will
often have human slaves known as familiars similar to most other series they serve their
vampire Masters in Hope of eventually being turned newly turned vampires are more like zombies than
vampires because they do nothing but thirst for blood older vampires have much more self-control
and some can even be around humans such as Dane from the second film and the comics foreign
Vampires must feed on blood regularly to survive it's not clear exactly how long
they can go without it we never see vampires feeding on any kind of animal so either animal
blood won't sustain them in the same way or they prefer the taste of human blood if
a vampire is badly wounded then feeding can speed up their healing ability they can also
absorb blood through their pores when Lilith was heavily wounded her servants would cover
her in blood as to help her heal we also see her bathing in a pool of blood in the movie
in the comic we learned that the vampire Marlow had somehow stumbled upon the town of Barrow
Alaska and began organizing the big hunt he sent out messages asking other vampires to join him
and 19 agreed to participate Marlowe being proud of his idea then asked for one of the
elders named Vicente to witness and participate in the event saying the presence of one such as
yourself will make the event truly one for the ages Vicente agrees to go to the hunt
but not for the reasons you think when the Elder arrives in Barrow he is angry he says that the
only reason he agreed to come was because he couldn't believe the audacity of what Marlow
had been planning to do he wanted to arrive in time to actually stop Marlow but he was
too late he says this how many centuries has it taken to become a myth how many centuries
has it taken to mesh with the living world to make humans believe we no longer exist
hundreds thousands now with one single greedy act you have given them reason to suspect
suspicion and fear are the seed of our Extinction it killed my brothers and my fathers and if this
gets out it will destroy us again this shows us how much the elders value the secrecy of their
race an angry Vicente ripped Marlow to pieces for his stupidity and arrogance he then ordered
the remaining vampires to break the pipeline to flood the town with oil and Burn It To The Ground
he wanted all evidence of what happened to be completely erased nobody can know what happened
here in the comic Evan's final battle is with Vicente instead of Marlow but he kills him in
the same way by punching a hole through his head in the movie Marlow and Vicente were basically
combined into one character to simplify the story the final scene was great but I think having one
of the Elder vampires kill Marlow instead of Eban would have been much more impactful it would have
showed us that even among vampires Marlowe was a Savage so that answers the question of why
did the vampires go to Alaska because Marlowe wanted a hunting ground with no rules [Music]
I said earlier that Vicente is an elder but who are the elders well there are at least
two of them Lilith the queen of all vampires and her husband Vicente we don't get to see
Vicente in the movies but he is mentioned by name in the books they are portrayed as
partners and equals ruling over the vampire race in the second film dark days we get to
see the inside of the ship to bring the vampires to Alaska it's basically a moving Fortress full
of Horrors Lilith has black eyes in the signature full mouth of sharp teeth that
Define these vampires they have super strength speed and a great healing ability they can
even be brought back from Death by giving them some blood vampires also have enhanced senses
in the comic we are told that vampires enhanced senses are dolled by the extreme cold in Alaska
for some reason aside from these abilities Lilith has some special ones of her own she
can communicate with others telepathically and she could also use her powers to protect someone
it's not clear how she did it but somehow she made it impossible for other vampires to touch
Ebon the book said it was as if the vampires were burned when they tried to touch him
the vampires refer to themselves as Nosferatu many people think the queen is the first vampire and is
possibly the one and only Lilith from mythology there's a few references that point to her being
the first vampire she says herself that her along with Vicente are the parents of all
vampires however we learn in the book Immortal remains that Lilith is in fact not the first
vampire they were both created by a vampire named Enoch this is a description of him from
the book he was thin almost emaciated looking making prominent cheekbones into Cliffs with
deep vertical furrows beneath running all the way to his sharp-edged chin above the cheeks were the
Deep Hollows of his eyes the eyeballs themselves recessed in hooded slits a huge mole on his left
eyelid added to the impression that he could barely see through that one his hair was dark
and long hanging in Greasy strands around his face the knuckles of his right hand the one holding
onto the edge of his chair's arm rest were swollen and pale in the book a vampire named Dane tells us
that Enoch is one of the oldest of them possibly the oldest so we're not even sure if Enoch is
truly the first but he is older than Lilith we don't know how old the queen or Enoch are
but the queen has been alive for at least several centuries so Enoch is probably thousands of years
old vampires speak a very ancient and archaic sounding language that lends to this Theory the
language was actually completely original for the film created with help of a Linguistics professor
at the New Zealand University it reminds me of the vampire language created for the blade movie
Enoch possesses the same special abilities that Lilith does able to communicate telepathically
read thoughts and probably much more it is implied that Enoch is physically the strongest
of all vampires even the queen was afraid of him Lilith is said to be Adam's first wife but she
refused to Bow and escape to the Garden of Eden becoming mother of demons sounds pretty fitting
and lines up with being mother of vampires so maybe Lilith is older than we think it's also
interesting that Lilith was written about in the books of Enoch Enoch is the seventh man
from Adam and was a Biblical figure in patriarch prior to Noah's flood he is most known for being
one of only two people who were let into heaven while they were still alive I doubt it's just a
coincidence that the two oldest vampires share names with these religious figures I wonder if
the vampire Enoch and the descendant of Adam could be the same person although
the spelling of their names are different one thing is for sure the vampire's origin is super
natural they're not merely another species because Lilith and Enoch clearly have magic-like abilities
These vampires have one true weakness
sunlight if exposed they will be burned and turned to Ash in just a matter of moments
they can also be killed by being decapitated or damaged beyond what their healing abilities
can handle their healing abilities are very good though they can survive losing limbs explosions
and one vampire even survived a gunshot to the Head one thing that's interesting is vampires
are not harmed by holy objects of any kind so they might not be inherently evil these vampires
have something called a racial memory or genetic memory when you become a vampire you will learn
certain things that you didn't know before one of these things is the name Enoch and most likely the
vampire language a vampire named Dane said that after a vampire is turned if they spend more time
with the vampire that turned them they will have greater access to this racial knowledge it also
works the other way though so lack of contact with the vampire that turned you will dull this
racial memory he also says that when there are more vampires the memories are harder to access
is if they are spread thin among all the vampires when Evan was turned he didn't have any contact
with the vampire that turned him this meant when he heard the name Enoch for the first time it was
familiar to him but he didn't know why Dane said that if his racial memory was functioning properly
he would know exactly who he is the elders Lilith and Vicente ruled over the vampire race for many
centuries they thought it best to remain in the shadows control the world in secret we
see in the second film dark days that the vampires controlled the police in Los Angeles and probably
a lot of other stuff these Elders worked hard and spent a long time convincing the world that they
were nothing more than a myth Enoch does not feel the same way though he wants vampires to rule the
world in the open and reduce the human population to cattle he also despised Lilith for trying to
seize power of her own and rule the vampires Enoch waited until Lilith was in a weakened
State and gave her a fate worse than death he cut off her arms and legs then removed her tongue but
she was still alive above her written on the wall it said this the old ways have proven weak now is
the time of the vampire her punishment gets even worse every time a new vampire is turned
they are forced to take a bite of the former Queen's flesh this has left her disfigured far
beyond the removal of just her limbs I think Enoch and Marlow would have gotten along great
The novels reveal one other mystery about the vampire race that I thought was interesting
although they're Undead they can actually procreate with humans a vampire father and
a human mother successfully have a child and this was a huge surprise even to the
vampires apparently they had never tried or it was always unsuccessful we didn't get to see
the child grow up so it's not clear If a half a vampire would look the same or not I assumed
they would be immune to sunlight though half of vampires might still have solid black eyes but
probably wouldn't have a full mouth of sharp teeth maybe they would have just a traditional two fangs
That's my video on some of the mysteries from 30 Days of Night I always wanted to know if
Lilith was truly the first vampire and it turns out she wasn't I also always wanted to know the
back story about why they went to Alaska I was so sure that they had been hunting there for
centuries or even Millennia because of the Polar night turns out I was wrong again if
you guys really enjoy 30 Days of Night I would definitely recommend the comics the story is
slightly expanded upon and the artwork is amazing if there's any movies or TV shows
you'd like me to cover please leave them in the comments below as I always read through them the
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