At the risk of losing Merge’s thirteen to fourteen year old female demographic, vampires are not real. If they were, they’d be evil looking, heartless, subhuman murderous arseholes. You could argue that their immortality permits them centuries of experience to gain maturity and knowledge beyond anything our human vessels ever could, along of course with a smashing collection of evening wear. However, arguing that would make you an idiot, because vampires are not real. Anyway, my point is that in the film Daybreakers, vampires are depicted as those subhuman arseholes I mentioned earlier.

Set in 2019, human blood has become the biggest commodity on the planet. Ethan Hawke plays a vampire hematologist looking for a synthetic replacement to sustain his species; Claudia Karvan and Willem Dafoe play some rebel humans fighting for the survival of our race. So it’s a fairly unique twist on your average genre flick. If it just wasn’t for the dreadful script, this film would be worth recommending. Surely they would have giant fields of free range and caged humans everywhere, but they don’t. Come on, this film tries to draw so many parallels regarding our second-rate treatment of animals and doesn’t jump at the opportunity to paint that kind of picture? A sheep truck on the highway with a payload of screaming human children, it would be harrowing. But they missed it. Also, the dialogue is cheesy. -Doug