Steve Niles
Birthday: 21 June 1965, Jackson, New Jersey, USA
Steve Niles is one of the writers responsible for bringing horror comics back to prominence. Currently writing "Wake the Dead", "Freaks of the Heartland", "Fused: Think Like a ...Show More
That's driving me nuts. ... We've got 'Twilight,' which 16-year-old girls are going bat-shit over. O Show more
That's driving me nuts. ... We've got 'Twilight,' which 16-year-old girls are going bat-shit over. One of my big motivators for '30 Days of Night' was that vampires had gotten annoying and silly by being romantic. So I strip it back to where they look at you like cattle. They don't like humans. They don't spend time worrying about us. ... It's a direct confrontation with death. And they're metaphors for fear of invasion and disease and more. Vampires have the potential to be really scary. How can they be scary if cheerleaders are dating them? Hide
It's just a different way of looking at things. Everybody assumes that from watching '30 Days of Nig Show more
It's just a different way of looking at things. Everybody assumes that from watching '30 Days of Night' that I hate Anne Rice and the whole notion of romantic vampires, but it's actually just the opposite. Hide
I don't think so. But, they do have the advantage of being to go out in sunlight so they could beat Show more
I don't think so. But, they do have the advantage of being to go out in sunlight so they could beat them there. My vampires don't care at all about seduction. It's all about food to them. -- on if the Cullen vampire family in "Twilight" could survive a fight with the vampires in "30 Days of Night" Hide
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