30 Days of Nights: Dark Days

I know horror films aren't generally paragons of logic, but I still can't get my head around "30 days of Night, Dark Days."  First film has 98 humans get slaughtered over the titular thirty days by vampires.  In the end our said heroine is holding her one great love as he gets a terminal sunburn in the new found day.  Ok, nice ending trouble is that it is a terrible beginning for a sequel. 

First off a whole year has passed on since we last saw Stella.  What has she been doing?  She's been telling everyone that vampires ate her town.  Now, hold on.  over ninety people are dead and there's only one person left in town.  Surely cops would consider this person a suspect no?  Then her alibi is that "vampires did it."  Sounds like someone the authorities would want in protective custody.  It makes no sense that she's just running around loose.  What has she been doing this time?  Oh she wrote a book that somehow got published and now is doing speaking tour with sun lamps killing vampires in public and is squashed by the vampire government conspiracy. 

Ha?

Never mind as Gilda would say, all this takes only like ten minutes.  Luckily we are saved by a bunch of wannabe Von Helsings who take Stella in for a great vampire hunt.  There are some good action scenes and some ugly violence.  They are working against the evil Lilith who has a dark plan brewing.  Can they survive long enough to stop her?  Will Stella get her groove back?  Will her book be on Oprah? 

It's not a bad action vampire movie.  It movies along at an agreeable pace and does attempt to have some character and some human drama.  It is shot in the same stark style of the original, but moving things to LA hurts.  It makes it look like the bajillion of other films of this genre and we miss the snow.  Also, there's no 30 days of night here.  Sorry to be persnickity about that, on the other hand they are certainly dark days so there is that.  The vampires themselves fall mid way on my scale.  They don't glitter (good), but they do scream too damn much like asthmatic bats (bad).  They are certainly creatures I'd want to blow away. 

Over all, for a direct to DVD sequel it's certainly watchable enough, specially if you turn off your head.