Feb 1, 2010

Daybreakers

Who are the Spierig brothers and where did they come from?

Their excellent film "Daybrakers" is in danger of becoming lost among the flood of zombie movies (made by people who don't like to bother with thinking characters) and teenage vampire movies (made by people who want to keep teenage girls from having sex with their boyfriends).

The entire time I was watching "Daybreakers" I kept thinking "How come noone's made this film before?", since the basic idea is so simple and rational - what happens after the outbreak, after the battles between humans and vampires have been fought an lost, after all the running around and popping into car windows going "BOO!" has been done - what is it like in a world ruled by vampires, and can it exist at all?

The second trailer has too many spoilers, so I'm using this one:

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