Daybreakers
Vampires are everywhere these days, so Daybreakers - a film imagining what happens when vampires take over the world - makes sense, right? It's the near future and everyone dresses like they're in the 1940s and everything looks like a Tool music video. Human blood is low in supply and starving vamps are turning into screeching bat-creatures. A vampire scientist (Ethan Hawke, his best bloodsucker since Reality Bites) is looking to create synthetic blood to supply the public demand and satisfy the corporate interests of his vampire boss (a suave Sam Neill). Hope arises in the form of a car-loving renegade human named Elvis (Williem Dafoe), who has the lowdown on a potential cure based in something that vampires hate... and it's not shimmering-diamond-skin envy.
The Spering Brothers were responsible for the entertaining Aussie zombie film, Undead, and while their latest film, Daybreakers, forsakes that local flavour for a global audience (warning: features almost the entire Secret Life Of Us cast with flat Yank accents), it's worth it for the spectacle of a crossbrow-carrying Dafoe delivering one-liners like, "We're as safe as riding bareback on a five dollar whore."
Format: Cinema
Mood: Gulp
Keywords: Vampires, Ethan Hawke, Spering Brothers
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