Ethan Hawke stars as a researcher in a near-future world where the entire population has been turned into vampires by a new virus. And the last remaining humans find themselves on the bottom of the food chain!
Daybreakers combines explosive action, blood and gore at a high level and a fantastic story into one action packed sci fi thriller. A strong cast each delivering great performances makes Daybreakers the one to watch!
Daybreakers delivers action, horror and thrilling excitement keeping you riveted throughout. Strong performances from a great cast playing great characters that add to the excellence of this gripping movie.
Entertaining subversion of the vampire movie with vampirism as a metaphor for Globalization. Sometime in the near future: the last vestige of humanity is hunted down in a world where vampires have imposed a ruthless new order built around Crowley-esque edicts, shock n' awe militarism and a blood sucking police state apparatus that farms and harvests humans like cattle.
Uncle Sam beckons all patriotic Americans to join the Vampire army as a shortage of human blood slowly devolves the decadent Nosferatu into primitive, subterranean mutants disdainfully dubbed 'Scavengers'. Meanwhile, teetotal vampire haematologist Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke in sparkling form) tires in vain to develop a blood substitute as sneering corporate villain (the brilliant Sam Neil) deepens the vampire occupation in an attempt to turn his daughter (Aussie newcomer Isabel Lucas) to the dark side.
But when our jaded hero accidentally encounters the beleaguered human resistance and oddball slayer Elvis (the ever reliable Willem Dafoe) Dalton realises that he may hold the key to stemming the vampire epidemic.
Australian auteurs the Spierig brothers handle pace and SFX well whilst their cast clearly have fun with the premise, even managing to turn the film's satirical ire onto Big Pharmaceuticals with Sam Neil's line: "It was never about a cure, just repeat business".
The only drawbacks being that 'Daybreakers', though a reasonably original variation on the vampire narrative template, will, at times, seem very familiar to fans of the genre e.g. mise-en-scene in the winery hideout is similar to the cabins in John Carpenter's 'Vampires', futuristic layout of the blood farm isn't a million miles away from 'Ultraviolet' whilst much of its brutal vampire action is a lot like 'Blade'. A breezy, but blood soaked and often suspenseful movie, 'Daybreakers' will appeal to viewers looking for something a little different from those creatures of the night, and if nothing else, makes for an enjoyable 90 minutes of monster mayhem.
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play. In the year 2019 the world is overrun with vampires. Humans are an endangered, second class species - hunted to the brink of extinction and then farmed to feed the vampires' thirst for blood. The remaining humans are in hiding and as blood supplies run low, the terrifying consequences of vampire starvation are becoming more apparent - the normally civilised vampire population will turn into feral blood sucking monsters if a blood substitute is not found. Stylish, provocative and action packed, Daybreakers stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill.
Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill and Ethan Hawke star in this sci-fi action horror. In the year 2019, a global plague has transformed almost every human being on the planet into a vampire. Humankind is now a hunted minority, accounting for less than five percent of the world's population - and has become a vital food source controlled and harvested by cynical businessmen such as Charles Bromley (Neill). Faced with a dwindling blood supply and a desperate future, a team of scientists led by Edward (Hawke) joins forces with a covert band of vampires to find a way to save humankind.
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