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Daybreakers is a 2009 dystopian sci-fi action-horror vampire film written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig. The film takes place in a futuristic world overrun by vampires, and centers around a vampiric corporation which sets out to capture and farm the remaining humans while researching a substitute for human blood. Ethan Hawke plays vampire hematologist Edward Dalton, whose work is interrupted by human…
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I will admit that when it comes to making films about vampires it can prove to be a very difficult genre to do anything original especially since so many of them have been made. Just think about how many times the original has been told or how *Nosferatu* was essetially the same film as *Bram Stoker's Dracula* but with different actors and less "I am an FBI Agent!" leads. In *Daybreakers* we take on a topic that as…More
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Source The first 20 to 25 minutes of Daybreakers are possibly the best thing to come out of vampire movies in years. Imagination and narrative power are a mix that don't always go hand in hand and, sadly, often prove unsatisfactory in the attempts made. The last two years have been a time when you don't follow the crowd: while the Twilight franchise broke box office records with its baby-toothed vampires, oth…More