Daybreakers (2009)
Action, Fantasy, Horror |
Daybreakers is a Australian-American science-fiction action horror film written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig. The film takes place in a futuristic world overrun by vampires, and centers around a vampiric corporation which sets out to capture and farm the remaining humans while researching a substitute for human blood. Ethan Hawke plays vampire hematologist Edward Dalton, whose work is interrupted by human survivors led by former vampire “Elvis”, who has a cure that can save the human species.
An international co-production between Australia and the United States, Daybreakers premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009. It was released in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2010 and in North America on 8 January 2010.
In 2009, a plague caused by an infected bat has transformed most of the world’s population into immortal vampires. The human population has plummeted, leaving vampires with a severe shortage of blood; vampires deprived of blood degenerate into psychotic, bat-like “subsiders”. Most humans are captured and harvested in laboratory farms while scientists research a synthetic blood substitute. As sunlight is deadly to vampires, underground passages and UV filtered cars are built for safe travel, while the few free humans travel by day, hiding in open spaces.
In 2019, Edward Dalton is the head hematologist for Bromley Marks, a pharmaceutical company which is the largest supplier of human blood in the US. Edward and colleague Christopher Caruso are developing a blood substitute.
Directors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Writers: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Claudia Karvan Isabel Lucas, Michael Dorman, Jay Laga’aia
►Cast:
Harriet Minto-Day | … | Lisa Barrett |
Jay Laga’aia | … | Senator Turner |
Damien Garvey | … | Senator Westlake |
Sahaj Dumpleton | … | Homeless Vampire |
Allan Todd | … | Businessman |
Gabriella Di Labio | … | Businesswoman |
Ben Siemer | … | Police Officer |
Peter Welman | … | Police Officer |
Ethan Hawke | … | Edward Dalton |
Callum McLean | … | Vampire School Kid |
Jarrad Pon | … | Vampire School Kid |
Victoria Williams | … | Vampire School Kid |
Zoe White | … | Vampire School Kid |
Aolani Roy | … | Vampire School Kid |
Tiffany Lamb | … | News Reader |
Renai Caruso | … | Coffee Shop Attendant |
Chris Brown | … | Subway Commuter |
Kirsten Cameron | … | Subway Commuter |
Sam Neill | … | Charles Bromley |
Carl Rush | … | Al Walker |
Paul Sonkkila | … | General Williams |
Vince Colosimo | … | Christopher Caruso |
Todd Levi | … | Commissioner Turnbull |
Wayne Smith | … | Inmate 4075B |
Berni Chin | … | Lab Technician |
Kevin Zwierzchaczewski | … | Lab Technician |
Joel Spreadborough | … | Vampire Subject |
Lisa Cunningham | … | Nurse |
Amanda Buchanan | … | Nurse |
Jane Wallace | … | Bromley’s Assistant |
Claudia Karvan | … | Audrey Bennett |
Mungo McKay | … | Colin Briggs |
Emma Randall | … | Ellie Landon |
Charlotte Wilson | … | Joy Watkins |
Rohan Smith | … | Police Officer in Car |
Michael Dorman | … | Frankie Dalton |
Bryan Probets | … | Subsider in Kitchen |
John Gibson | … | Detective Cosgrove |
Robyn Moore | … | Forensic Investigator Simms |
Troy MacKinder | … | Officer Hobbs |
Willem Dafoe | … | Lionel ‘Elvis’ Cormac |
Christopher Kirby | … | Jarvis Bayom |
Glen Martin | … | Coffee Buyer |
Isabel Lucas | … | Alison Bromley |
Des Coroy | … | Businessman |
Michelle Atkinson | … | Mother |
David Vallon | … | Janitor |
Candice Storey | … | Onlooker |
Simon Burvill-Holmes | … | Onlooker |
Anne Bennetts | … | Onlooker |
Kellie Vella | … | Subsider in Garage |
Scot McQade | … | Security Desk Officer |
Jack Bradford | … | Security Guard #1 |
Jason Chin | … | Medic |
Konrad Whitten | … | Weathered Human |
Mark Finden | … | Young Vampire Cadet |
Byron J. Brochmann | … | Vampire Soldier |
Michael Browning | … | Vampire soldier |
Joel Amos Byrnes | … | Security Guard |
Brooke Chamberlain | … | Isobel |
Eddie L. Fauria | … | Street Cop |
Michael Ienna | … | Louis |
Selina Kadell | … | Debate News Anchorwoman |
David Knijnenburg | … | Vampire Commuter |
Alex Revan | … | Rygar |
Matthew Wollaston | … | Vampire Soldier |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia