2010 · action · fantasy · sci-fi
Daybreakers
Directed by Michael Spierig1h 38m2010
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into a vampire. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save humankind.
Our read: Daybreakers (2010) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal action · fantasy · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- epic-stakes
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