Mevio Men

Just imagine The Matrix with blood sucking vampires controlling the reigns rather than guys in black suits.

Intrigued already, aren’t you.

Now, try not to imagine Keanu Reeves doing a Romanian meets Surfer accent. Just get that out of your brain. Too late for you!

Now seriously, imagine a world of the future where people turn into vampires not from a bite but from a plague. H1N1? Maybe.

However, with so many vampires and not so many humans, the vamps of the future turn the remaining humans into a living bloodbank.

Now that’s a movie!

And it doesn’t hurt to have Willem Dafoe, who happens to look like Count Chockula in his daily existence, in the film. And because sensitive Ethan Hawke is in the film, there will no doubt be endless speculation about the environmentalist, voracious-capitalist-humankind-beating-the-living-hell-out-of-nature metaphor bandied about all over those fur haters in Hollywood.

Daybreakers is scheduled to be released on January 8, 2010. Happy New Year mortals!

In an original take on the vampire film genre, the world’s population is almost all vampire. And there just isn’t enough human blood to go around.

So in the name of post-capitalism and postmodernism — no, not really — it’s time to farm the humans and drain every last ounce of blood or humanity left in them. Wait, maybe Daybreakers actually is a treaty against the ravages of capitalism: a corporation of the undead takes the remaining humans and harvests them to feed its unquenchable thirst for blood.

OMFG! Well that was easy. Another movie figured out, wrapped up, and spit out. Next!

Daybreakers is a Lionsgate Films and, as they put it, it opens in a world where almost everyone is a vampire and no one grows old. Sam Neill plays Charles Bromley and succinctly lets us, and the world of vampire brethren, know that “Immortality is the miracle and we are blessed”.

The remaining humans are hunted and farmed for blood, and when when there isn’t a single drop of blood left — the end of the human race is at stake and the battle between immortality and humanity is on.

Daybreakers stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman, and Sam Neill. Watch the Daybreakers trailer right here and prepare yourself for the Daybreakers release date on January 8, 2010.