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Always Around Horror Movie Review -Daybreakers

...A world full of vampires who wear snazzy retro hats, where humans are an endangered species....

Daybreakers flips the usual vampire movie premise on it's head and plunges into a world where pretty much everyone is a vampire, and the few remaining humans are an endangered species - like pandas, but with crossbows - hiding out in the wilds where they are hunted down and then dragged back to be farmed for their blood. The vampires live out a gloomy, mausoleum parody of their previous existence, buying and selling humans on the stock exchange. With UV screens on all their windows, and drive-by-wire on their cars, the vamps have a stable, urbane civilization, at least at first glance.

Lurking under the surface is a terrible threat to the vampires "unlives" - they are running out of humans, and blood! They soon discover that a vampire starved of blood descends into an irreversibly bestial state, where their last vestige of humanity evaporates. It's a lot like being really, really drunk what with the running about naked moaning and slobbering, but uglier, and with a craving for blood instead of a kebab. These zombie nosferatu attack everybody - humans, other vampires, they even bite themselves and their numbers are rapidly increasing. The crap is about to hit the global fan in vamp world, unless someone somewhere comes up with a synthetic version of blood.

Daybreakers has a triumvirate of brilliant, mostly B movie, actors - Sam Neill (The Piano, Hunt For Red October, Dead Calm) is cast as the evil mastermind of a blood stock and pharmaceutical company which employs Edward Dalton - played by Ethan Hawke (Gattaca, Training Day) - as a scientist who has worked for years on the synth-blood invention but just hasn't quite cracked it yet. Willem Defoe (Spiderman, The Reckoning, Shadow of the Vampire) shows up halfway through to deliver some of the best lines in the movie. Sam Neill provides plenty of gloating menace that counterpoints Willem Defoe's hokey down-home man of mystery while Hawke seethes and broods and smokes in between.

For some reason when you become a vampire you experience a sudden urge to dress in snappy 1940s style suits and wear a nice fedora. Even the vampire police uniforms are way retro. This matches perfectly with the cold, grey and blue of the vampires gloomy world, in contrast the human scenes are awash with reds and yellows, flooded with light and warmth.

This is a terrific movie, a notch up in intelligence from the run-of-the-mill horror telling a story that grabs your attention, but still delivering plenty of violent gore and action. People get bitten, shot and there's a good deal of bursting into flames.

The plot still leaves room for you to play "spot the horror movie cliche". For instance: When will the black guy get killed? How about the pretty girl? You know it's going to happen, it's just a question of when!

Daybreakers + beer + pizza = a top night in!


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