Daybreakers… angry desperate vampires… plus Ethan.

Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Films

During the week the teaser poster was released for the up coming vampire action flick ‘Daybreakers’. The film starring the ever blunted and often angsty Ethan Hawke, meat eater  Sam Neil (joke for the Australian readers) and our favourite ‘man baring his arse in a tree’ Willem Dafoe. Thanks to Shock Til you Drop for spreading the word, as the new trailer has hit the web.

The story is set in the the year 2019:

A plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher  (Hawke) works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.

The film appears to be quite the action based flick, guns, soldiers, long sticks that electrocute humans, much like you use with cattle, toasty! However the vampires in their original form look suitably Desmodus rotundus (Vampire Bat) like, their human forms look reasonable, however we only get flashes of them in the trailer. The plot itself is interesting, the idea of the vamps running out of their food source… sound familiar to anyone… ‘Do I have blood in my hair?’

May I also say I am enjoying the accompanying music, a cover of Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up that Hill’ (no not Babooshka, calm down) via Placebo, but we can let the Placebo thing pass… for now.

Have a look and see if this gets your fangs tingling, it could be an enjoyable sanguinary rough and tumble, if Ethan grows a pair.

Ms Harker

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Permalink | June 27th, 2009

3 Responses to “Daybreakers… angry desperate vampires… plus Ethan.”

  1. Brian Says:
    June 27th, 2009 at 9:44 am

    The poster is gorgeous. The film looks ambitious .

    Nice to see the under-utilized bat motif again and vampires with an obvious monstrous side to them.

  2. Ms Harker Says:
    June 27th, 2009 at 9:52 am

    I concur, the bat motif, especially all skanky winged like is entirely under utilised in recent vampire films, also good to see the vampires get their evil on!

  3. Jeanette Says:
    June 29th, 2009 at 7:00 am

    Vampires have definitely got their fangs back. I liked Ethan Hawke in Gattaca and I hope he brings his A-game to this ambitious and futuristic horror film.

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