Written and directed by Peter and Michael Spierig
Starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman, Vince Colosimo, Isabel Lucas, Sam Neill
Release Date - January 08, 2010
I know what you’re thinking. Paul, you always dog on romantic comedies and give horror films a pass. I do. And I don’t. Case in point - this film. It has an interesting premise - An unknown plague has transformed most humans into vampires. So, vampires are rounding up and farming all humans for blood and researching a blood substitute. Ethan Hawke plays a researcher working on such a solution when he is contacted by a convert group of vampires who have a shocking discovery that could possibly turn things around.
You’d think the vampire mythos had run its course and was running out of true blood. But new takes keep popping up. I just have a really bad feeling about this. These days, it’s really hard to make a good vampire film. The twin Spierig brothers previously made the 2003 Aussie horror film Undead which also had a good premise but just wasn’t executed well. Something tells me Daybreakers won’t be screened for critics.
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