“Daybreakers” a Hardcore Vampire Thriller

Edward Cullen fans listen up, because “Daybreakers” is about to make “Twilight” look like a cute Disney movie. The vampires in “Daybreakers” are fierce, powerful, and incredibly thirsty.
“Daybreakers” opens in the year 2019 after a plague turns nearly every human being into a vampire. Veering from other futuristic movies, everything in 2019 looks like it should look nine years from now. No special tech or mega-cities, and no robots doing your chores for you.
The only difference is that everyone in the “Daybreakers” world is at the mercy of vampires’ frightening orange eyes and fangs.
All is great until the vampires’ dream of being immortal withers as the population’s blood supply runs out. The movie pulls the audience in when it introduces Bromley Marks’ blood bank, a plant for collecting human blood that is low on supply. And so begins the search for all remaining humans.
Elvis and Audrey (Willem Dafoe and Claudia Karvan) are humans desperately trying to keep themselves safe while trying to find a cure for the others.
Luckily they run into Bromley Marks’ chief hematologist and vampire, Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke), who refuses to indulge in human blood.
The company insists that Ed devise a substitute for blood, but he knows it’s not a substitute they need. They need a cure.
Thanks to his new friends, he’s closer to that discovery than he could ever have imagined.
“Daybreakers” takes fictional vampires and makes them feel real. It accomplishes this with a highly believable concept—one bloodsucker bites a human, that human turns and goes after another, until the entire population is afraid of the sun.
The sight of Bromley Marks’ massive blood bank with hundreds of humans dangling from the extractors is as disturbing on screen as it is in the film’s posters.
Although the film slows significantly at the midpoint, every other part is a blast. There are even some amateur special effects that are strangely fitting.
The power of the directors, the Spierig brothers, is mighty as “Daybreakers” completely sucks you into the fictional world of vampires.
If you have any respect for vampires, drop “Twilight” and run to the nearest theater to get your seat at this must-see film.

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