7 Most Overlooked Final Girls In Horror Movies

The premise of 2007's 30 Days of Night (adapted from the comic book of the same name), is brilliantly simple: a clan of ravenous vampires learn of the isolated town of Barrow, Alaska, and the month it spends annually without sunlight. The town's residents who choose to stay during that time are breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

One such resident is Stella Oleson. The good: she's no stranger to helping others. The bad: she missed the last plane out of town. The ugly: vampires.

Subzero temperatures are enough to test anyone. So is spending a month in darkness with only artificial light to brighten things up. Throw in the most animalistic vampires you've ever seen, and you'd be forgiven for just embracing cold death's sweet embrace. But Stella has an ex-husband to watch out for, his younger brother, and anyone else without an aversion to right angles.

Over the next month, Stella helps co-ordinate the survival of the dwindling townspeople. With the sun soon to rise, Eben - her ex - turns himself into a vampire in order to prevent the other vampires burning down Barrow and any evidence of their existence. He succeeds in stopping them, but it's a pyrrhic victory, and one that Stella has to observe first-hand. She doesn't stop him. She knows his sacrifice will save the lives of others, but it's a bitter pill to swallow.

Rather than live as a monster, Eben decides to sit and watch the sun rise with Stella by his side. Her love immolated by the dawn of a new day, Stella resolves to continue the fight...