Daybreakers

"2009, a virus carried by bats slowly turns human population into vampires." You can now enjoy your beer, as it is not really happens. Because if it is really happened, you'll be craving for blood right now, as you reading my post. Anyway, back to the case. That sentence become the background of the Spierig Brothers' Daybreakers, a science fiction with a touch of horror. Ethan Hawke sits as the main cast. Yes, you already seen him at the 1997 film, Gattaca. So at least he got a background to the the stuff.

Edward Nelton (Ethan Hawke) is a vampire-hematologist who works for Bromley Marks, a pharmaceutical company who supplies the United States needs for bloods. It is 2019 and the virus almost turned every living people on earth into a blood-drinker vampire.The blood came from a facility that serves like a big farm, with the human as their sheep. As the human numbers goes dwindling, Nelton believe that there is a blood substitute that can be use for replacing human blood. On his ways home, he saves a group of human led by Audrey (Claudia Karvan) from getting caught. It turned out that the last living people who hasn't turned into vampire, gathered up. Audrey then invited Nelton, as he seems not a blood-lover, to meets the rest of the group. Their being led by Elvis (Willem Defoe), a former vampire who return into his former human-self. And then the quest for the blood-substitute, or maybe even the cure starts.

Daybreakers gave us a fresh air into the sci-fi horror genre, as we haven't see a lot of them around lately. A well performance delivered by Ethan Hawke, and not forget to mention the solid performance of Willem Defoe, combine with the Spierig Brothers equal a worth-to-watch movie. The story is also good, original as far as I know. And it gave us a glimpse of future, if somehow there is a virus carried out by bats. We all gonna work at the night, and driving using eye-cam at the morning. So maybe you can start to search for a protective sunglasses, who knows? Maybe there are already vampires, right behind you.