Sponsored by a conglomerate that harvests blood from comatose human captives — a sort of macabre version of Archer Daniels Midland — Edward is searching frantically for a viable alternative.
Co-writers and directors Peter and Michael Spierig effectively conjure a society where everyday Draculas are the norm — subway stations are packed with nocturnal, fanged commuters, cafes dispense coffee flavored with blood and, being immortal, everyone smokes — and they use this environment to make satiric points about the dangers of corporate excess and environmental irresponsibility. But the intermittently gory proceedings, which feature needlessly realistic splatter throughout, move toward a climactic scene of orgiastic bloodletting.
The film contains graphic gruesome violence, including decapitation, dismemberment and exploding bodies; upper female nudity; at least three uses of profanity; and some rough and crude language. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
Conference of Catholic Bishops. However 'Daybreakers' scores with a unique twist in what is becoming an overworked genre: What if the undead are the majority? In , due to a plague, most of the world's population have become vampires and the few humans left are hunted down and farmed for blood. This topsy-turvy "new normal" is sharply and amusingly depicted as being eerily similar to current living with the important difference that the populace go about their business at night and enjoy shots of blood in their coffee.
Aging, famine, and disease have been eradicated, however sunlight is lethal. There is also still a class system, with destitute vampires who cannot afford a regular fix of blood turning into violent, deformed creatures called "subsiders".
But there is a problem. The vampires' insatiable appetite for blood has driven the residual human population to the point of extinction and left the blood supply almost exhausted. His job is to find a blood substitute to ward off mass starvation. Dalton secretly sympathizes with the remaining humans and hopes that his work will result in their persecution being halted.
After connecting with some human survivors, he realizes that there may be an even more radical solution to the problem. However, not every solution is profitable.. From beginning to end this film is big, gory fun. There are some interesting and agreeable plot twists and the film's more metaphorical aspects which are not exactly subtle to begin with are upfront but not preachy.
The special effects and action scenes are top-notch also, particularly a gruesome set-piece near the film's climax. The Spierig brothers also manage to insert some big scary jolts at regular intervals. All the cast are solid but special mention should go to Sam Neill who does not chew scenery as the main villain of the piece but definitely nibbles here and there. Willem Dafoe is good too, as always. Well worth seeing.
FAQ 6. What is "Daybreakers" about? Is "Daybreakers" based on a book? What kind of vampires are in Daybreakers and how do they live? Details Edit. Release date January 8, United States. Australia United States. Vidio Indonesia. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Box office Edit. Eleven years later, Daybreakers ' vision of a world devastated by a plague is even more upsetting than how it landed back then.
Set in what was then the near-future — , to be exact — this dystopian noir starred Ethan Hawke as Edward Dalton, a conscientious scientist who works at Bromley Marks, a pharmaceutical company that provides life-giving blood to a growing, needy customer base. Dalton is thrilled at this prospect, but some in power may not actually want life to return to the way it was Although the parallels to our modern pandemic are slight, Daybreakers nonetheless conjures up an atmosphere of queasy uncertainty — a sense that normalcy is gone forever, replaced by fear and cruelty.
Why was it a big deal at the time? Not that they were reacting to the Robert Pattinson films in any way — in fact, the brothers were utterly oblivious of the phenomenon. We wanted to try to add something new to the mythology, but doing it in a way that seemed to fit into the world.
Not something that just seems completely out of place. Borrowing from other noir-ish sci-fi dystopias such as Metropolis and Blade Runner , the brothers imagined a cityscape in which the hustle and bustle took place entirely at night.
After all, if the country was beset by vampires, it would become a nocturnal world. But then fate intervened: Over the holidays that year, Hawke spent some time with his two younger brothers. So, I sat down and watched it with them, and then I thought it was genius. But Hawke was equally impressed with the step up the directors made with Daybreakers.
We just kept reusing a lot of different things. Another way to save money is Peter and I did a lot of the visual effects ourselves.
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