Even the film title is at the mercy of the evil Vampire thirst...
Has anyone checked under the hood of pop culture lately? Along side the slew of celebrity deaths and John and Kate Plus 8 buffoonery there's a thick plug of Vampire gunk clinging to every surface of the industry. From Twilight (adult male movie review here) to True Blood, (this show is prime time dope - absolutely love it) to Bonnie and Clyde vs. Dracula... Vampires haven't mounted this kind of public comeback since the days of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And just when things couldn't get more blood-suckier - here comes the Spierig Brothers, (Undead) to deliver yet another vampire flick.
Goths must be in satin and leather heaven right now - floating from room to room, still attempting to bite through each other's mushy white arms with fake plastic fangs...
So uh... Check out this trailer for Daybreakers:
Trailer Critique: Yes it's officially Vampmania - don't know how or why we let these guys back inside the house - but we did. Normally I wouldn't give a flick like this any more attention than I do any of the other three million Vampire movies that are released every year. But when you add Ethan Hawke to anything - and I have no idea why or how this works - the movie banks some strong street cred immediately. If I saw a new movie trailer where the Thundercats teamed up with Perez Hilton to battle Global Warming during a gay cruise ship tour of the Pesian Gulf - and it had Ethan Hawke in it - I'd probably think it was at least a decent movie.
So the Spierig brothers are off of Zombies huh? Well good. Undead wasn't that hot of a movie anyway. Personally I dig my Vampire movies a little bit on the trashy side. Why waste a perfectly good bloodbath on a lot of intimate reflection and eternal misery right? Maybe I'm just saying that because there's this immature, demented side of me has a serious bone to pick with the success of Twilight. Sure it's the ultimate romances of the damned Vampire movie - but it'll never have any real goo in it will it? We won't be getting any full-frontal gut explosions or severe neck-wound blood jetting in the town of Forks Washington will we? And I'm thinking that the Spierig Brothers, fresh out of the bloody Australian outback and key practitioners in cinema gore, just might be up to the task of giving us a hardcore Vampire experience- but with Ethan Hawke this time. Which means something - I just can't quite put my finger on what though...
So yeah, I'll see this. But Zombieland is still the horror movie to see this Fall.
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Hi there. I don't know why it works either, but I LOVE ETHAN HAWKE> I can't help it. I just saw Great Expectations for the umpteenth time, which is a terrible adapation of the classic but still it has Ethan Hawke and he makes me cry like a baby. WHy is that??
As do I sister Oakland - as do I...
i cant wait to see this
For me it's not just the Hawkster. I love Sam Neill and Willen Dafoe too. So yeah, I'd pay to see this in theaters. Why not? January's a damn graveyard anyway.
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