Daybreakers: Don’t give up your night job.
Movie Reviews January 10th. 2010, 1:56pmWhat happens when vampires takeover? Well, just like humans they poorly manage resources and have trouble feeding themselves. Ethan Hawke is a reluctant vampire and is trying to find a substitute for blood. Willem Dafoe is a former vampire who found a way to reverse the vampirism in a most improbable way. Humans are in short supply and that sets the stage for all kinds of wacky vampire drama. Lots of time is spent on showing how vampires cope during the day and how society devolves when starvation threatens. Wooden stakes still work somehow when they pierce the unbeating heart and of course prolonged exposure to sunlight is a killer. Leaving behind the folklore problems, the story has some sense and the acting is good. Sam Neil is the head corporate vampire and capitalist villain. There is plenty of gore and action and some stupid attempts to startle you with bats aflying. Vampires smoke a lot too, I guess it can’t hurt them and what else are you going to do for an eternity? I get the point: dead white men are the real vampires and a socialist utopia would mean plenty of blood for everyone. Give me my stakes, garlic and holy water, I’m agoing hunting.
January 20th, 2010 at 9:49 am
What you need are shot shells full of holy water! Then you get the feeling of fending off a zombie invasion. Which is always better because guns are involved.
Maybe some garlic salt in the holy water? Double wammy!
October 17th, 2015 at 4:38 pm
there MUST be a psychological term for that mode of beoivahr. (I hesitate to call such a widespread beoivahr a “condition” since it infests most people to a greater or lesser extent.) Its not “quite” toxic game playing. Oh well, I will just have to go over to Dr. O’s site and find out won’t I!!!(I thought it was Gardner in his “Letters” which originated the term…but during the great period of spiritualism starting in the late 1900’s there were many influential and observant people seeking answers, and occasionally providing them. Phrenologists come to mind. As do Blavatsky, Gardner, LaVey and others worthy of study. If only to see how a con artist works…grin!)