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Daybreakers – Movie Trailer

Waaaaay back in 2003 two brothers from Queensland opened up a can of kick-ass so righteous and powerful the internet quaked in its boots…. Or not. The Spierig brothers’ first feature film Undead was a moderately successful cult film. It won an audience of zombie lovers over with its surprisingly good special effects, vaguely amusing dialogue and some interesting uses of shotguns and aliens. It was made for about a million bucks Australian and took a long time to put together as it was mostly edited and all the CGI done on home computers. We watched it ages ago but have never reviewed it. (as far as i can tell)

Six years on and finally we get a follow up film from the makers; those same two brothers from Queensland, and wait for it… this one’s about undead too! Vampires to be more specific, but before you discount the film as being more “Outback Aussie Malarky” WATCH THIS TRAILER

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Gone is the Aussie setting, and apparently most of the silliness and camp. This looks like the film Blade 3 could and should have been! I Love the look of it, the style and sofistication not to mention the A-list cast. Willem Dafoe looks great in there as the Vamp hunter and “man with the crossbows.” While Ethan Hawke and Sam Neil look great and creepy.

With vampires becoming a bigger and bigger part of pop culture thanks to Twilight and True Blood its SO refreshing to see a take on them that is unusual. I can’t wait to watch this film and i congratulate the Spierig Brothers on doing something very hard indeed: Following up on a cult hit.

What do you think? Will this film suck? Or will it be a bloody good time?

sorry.

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David Quinn is a writer, artist, film-maker, performer and general all-round-nice-guy who lives and works out of Launceston, Tasmania. He's lived in Tasmania all of his life but is lucky enough to have been to the UK, France, and South Africa in his younger days. He has written short films, co-authored video games, advised on feature scripts and television shows as well as advertising campaigns. He is also a regular performer on both stage and screen. One day he will make his fortune out of all this malarkey. ONE DAY......

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6 Responses to “Daybreakers – Movie Trailer”
  1. Amphrite Amphrite says:

    i’m personally not a horror fan or a twilight/true blood fan (having not seen them yet) but this one certainly looks brilliant. cant wait for it to come out

    June 30, 2009 at 11:23 pm
  2. Shaded Spriter Shaded Spriter says:

    This looks very…weird to me…mainly because I don’t think I have seen anything like it before…It is a good kind of weird not a bad kind I am looking forward to watching it.

    July 1, 2009 at 10:34 am
  3. Chris Rattray Chris Rattray says:

    Well, that put a sparkle in my pants.

    July 1, 2009 at 11:44 am
  4. Ivan GreyWolf says:

    Looks awesome cant wait australia needs more films like this hell the world does :P

    July 1, 2009 at 12:29 pm
  5. Bill Kingmob says:

    I just don’t know how in hell you cast Dafoe as NOT A VAMPIRE when the man already looks kinda dead in real life!?!

    I’m very excited to see this one, I loved Undead and think this looks like a nice stylistic evolution for the Spierigs Brothers.

    July 1, 2009 at 3:55 pm
  6. Greg Greg says:

    Amazing, I’m looking forward to this.

    July 1, 2009 at 10:13 pm

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