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Daybreakers

2009

Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig ...

Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Isabel Lucas, Sam Neill ...

5.3

12,809

Sci-Fi. Horror. Action. Thriller In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.

	Author	Review
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"(...) the film is essentially a zombie movie (...) a happy alternative to the tepid appeal of pre-teen vamps"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"It's like Children of Men with exploding-plasma shock effects (...) it pours some very old blood into a new plastic bottle."	NEU
United States	Peter Hartlaub SFGATE	"The average human body holds approximately 1.5 gallons of blood. Unless you're someone in the film Daybreakers. Then you're carrying closer to 47 gallons, 46 of which will end up splattered on a wall."	NEG
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"The narrative may flag, but the doomsday atmosphere and George Liddle’s production design remain vivid until the final, blood-splattered reel"	NEU
United Kingdom	Andrew Pulver The Guardian	"Just when you thought cinema's vampire craze had reached the point of total exhaustion, here comes a surprisingly entertaining twist on the genre (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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