Daybreakers
Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Genre: Horror, Action, Science Fiction, Thriller, Dystopia, Disaster, World cinema, Creature Film, Drama
Year: 2009
Country: United States of America, Australia
Language: English Language
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Isabel Lucas, Michael Dorman, Jay Laga'aia, Christopher Kirby, Vince Colosimo, Mungo McKay, Robyn Moore, Renai Caruso, Callum McLean, Harriet Minto-Day
Daybreakers is a 2009 science-fiction horror film written and directed by Australian filmmakers Michael and Peter Spierig. The film takes place in 2019, where a plague has turned most of the planet's human population into vampires. A vampiric corporation sets out to capture and farm the remaining humans while researching a blood substitute. Lead vampire hematologist Edward Dalton's (Ethan Hawke) work is interrupted by human survivors led by former vampire "Elvis" (Willem Dafoe), who has a cure that can save the human species.
Daybreakers premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2010 and in North America on 8 January 2010. The film grossed over $US50 million and received a mixed to positive critical reception.
In 2009, a plague caused by a vampire bat has transformed 95% of the world's human population into vampires. As the vampires are incapable of aging or dying, but are unprotected against the UV lights or the sunlight, the whole vampire world is active at night. Human numbers dwindle and the need for blood becomes desperate while an all-out war rages around the world between the surviving humans and vampires despite
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