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30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust

30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust is a 2008 American six-part horror web miniseries released on FEARnet.com and FEARnet On Demand, based on the 30 Days of Night vampire franchise created by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith.1 It is the third installment in the franchise, serving chronologically as a follow-up to the 2007 feature film 30 Days of Night and taking place before the 2010 sequel 30 Days of Night: Dark Days.1 Set one month after the events of the movie, the series follows Sara Maguire, a prison nurse who is attacked by a vampire and slowly transforms into one, while her brother Nick tracks her down with an FBI agent and the vampire hunter George Fowler from the earlier web series 30 Days of Night: Blood Trails.2

Key factDetail
FormatSix-part scripted horror web miniseries, six episodes of 3 to 7 minutes each, released weekly; total runtime 36 minutes3 • 4
NetworkFEARnet (FEARnet.com and FEARnet On Demand), United States1
RunPremiered July 17, 2008; final episode August 28, 20085
Director and writerBen Ketai, in his directorial debut, from a script by Ed Fowler3
Place in franchiseThird installment; sequel to Blood Trails (2007), set one month after the 2007 film, before Dark Days (2010)1
Main castMimi Michaels, Christopher Stapleton, Shawnee Smith, Andrew Laurich, Ken Foree2
IMDb rating5.8/10 from 323 votes4

Spoilers

Premise

The story continues the New Orleans storyline from Blood Trails, the seven-part FEARnet miniseries from 2007 that ran shortly before the theatrical film and acted as a prequel.3 • 6 In that earlier series, fans first met George, an ex-junkie who, while trying to expose the vampires, was captured by the authorities and blamed for the trail of bodies the vampires left.3

Dust to Dust begins with Detective Nick Maguire discovering that Sara, his sister and a nurse at the local penitentiary, has gone missing amid a mysterious prison break from which George got away. Nick ignores the wishes of his former partner, Gina, and searches for Sara himself. Scouring the streets of New Orleans, he finds George and learns there was more to the prison break than anyone thought, and that the wounds inflicted on Sara may be changing her into a vampire. To save his sister, Nick has to learn to trust George.3 In the first episode, Sara is attacked by a vampire while transferring the convicted murderer George; the vampire kills the guards and slits Sara's throat, and she escapes while realizing she is turning.7

Production

Ben Ketai, who had written Blood Trails, made his directorial debut with a script by Ed Fowler. Steve Hein, producer of the Boogeyman franchise, returned to produce the series with Ghost House Pictures' Aaron Lam.3 The production company was Ghost House Pictures, with Andres Boulton as composer and Mike Williamson as cinematographer.4 • 8 Ketai later credited Boulton's score for the web series when hiring him again for the feature 30 Days of Night: Dark Days.9

Cast

Mimi Michaels played Sara Maguire, Christopher Stapleton played her brother Nick, and Shawnee Smith, known for the Saw films, played Detective Gina Harcourt.2 • 10 Andrew Laurich played George Fowler, and Ken Foree, the Dawn of the Dead actor, played Nate Keller.2 Ted Raimi appeared in a cameo role.11

Release and tie-in comic

The first episode premiered at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2008 before the series debuted on FEARnet, with episodes released weekly.3 • 12 A limited edition tie-in comic book, with only 10,000 copies printed, and a poster were given out at Comic-Con, where Smith and others involved signed at the Sony Pictures Entertainment booth.3 A Comic-Con exclusive comic of the same title by Tom Waltz, then a writer and editor at IDW Publishing, was published in 2008.13 WIRED described the 16-page webcomic of the same name as picking up the lore with a lone Barrow resident trying to prove he was innocent of his girlfriend's murder and that vampires were to blame.14

Aftermath and availability

The franchise continued with the direct-to-video feature 30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010), directed by Ketai.1 • 9 In Germany, the web series was later compiled with Blood Trails and released on DVD and Blu-ray in 2016 under the title 30 Days of Night: Blutspur.15 The series is not currently available on streaming services.1

References

  1. 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust, Next Episode
  2. 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust, TVmaze
  3. Shawnee Smith's '30 Days of Night' Web scare, Los Angeles Times Hero Complex (July 23, 2008)
  4. 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust (TV Mini Series 2008), IMDb
  5. 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust, Episode list, IMDb
  6. 30 Days of Night: Wreaking Terror 10 Years Later, Cryptic Rock
  7. 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust (2008–2008) ratings, Rating Graph
  8. 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust, IMDbPro
  9. Exclusive: 30 Days of Night: Dark Days Wraps Production – Director Ben Ketai Speaks!, Dread Central (May 9, 2010)
  10. Smith, Shawnee (30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust), Dread Central
  11. Fearnet's New 30 Days of Night Story, Dread Central (June 4, 2008)
  12. CC: More Webisodes for 30 Days of Night, CHUD.com (June 5, 2008)
  13. 30 Days of Night Dust to Dust Comic Con Exclusive Comic Book by Tom Waltz, Goodreads
  14. 30 Days of Night Webcomic Raises the Undead, WIRED (August 25, 2008)
  15. 30 Days of Night: Blutspur, Sofahelden (August 14, 2016)

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026

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