Daybreakers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Daybreakers |
| Original title | Daybreakers |
| Country of production | Australia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Michael Spierig Peter Spierig |
| script | Michael Spierig Peter Spierig |
| production |
Chris Brown Bryan Furst Sean Furst |
| music | Christopher Gordon |
| camera | Ben Nott |
| cut | Matt Villa |
| occupation | |
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Daybreakers is an Australian science fiction - horror film from 2009. The budget was US $ 20 million. The script was written by Michael and Peter Spierig , who also directed.
Daybreakers was first presented on September 11, 2009 at the Toronto International Film Festival .
The film was released in UK theaters on January 6, 2010 and in American theaters on January 8, 2010. In Germany, the film was not shown in cinemas, but was released directly on DVD on July 16 for rental. The film has also been available for sale on DVD and Blu-ray since August 26, 2010.
action
After a mysterious plague turned a large part of the world's population into vampires by 2019 , the remaining people are clearly outnumbered. The vampires have taken over civilization, adapted it to their needs and developed it technically and organizationally. Since they can only maintain their immortality through human blood, they now hunt down the remaining people with special troops. The captured people are kept in so-called blood farms. However, there are also vampires who disapprove of this method, including Senator Turner.
Another is the hematologist Edward Dalton, who refuses to drink people's blood and shows compassion for them. Instead, as an employee of the Bromley Marks company, he tries to develop a blood substitute so that people are spared and their numbers can recover. But time is getting tight for him, as the blood supply is running out faster and faster and the vampires, especially company boss Charles Bromley, are restless. In addition, the shortage of blood is threatening for the vampires, since if they continue to renounce blood they degenerate into "anemic class 4 citizens", the so-called "subsiders", who are more bat-like and are viewed as animals. You are purely instinctive and no longer able to behave sensibly or emotionally. Drinking vampire and autologous blood, which takes place out of desperation, accelerates degeneration.
When Edward's brother Frankie, who hunts people as a security guard for the government, visits him, he brings him a bottle of blood. However, Edward refuses and explains Frankie his principles and why he does this. He has not yet given up hope of a blood substitute. He takes the bottle and dumps it down the sink. Frankie stops him, but realizes that most of the blood has already spilled in the drain and then throws the bottle against the wall himself, where it splinters and the blood spreads over the wall. Frankie angrily wants to leave the apartment, but a subsider comes towards him. This is evidently looking for blood. When he smells the blood on the wall, he goes straight for it. Edward and Frankie try to fend off him, because Subsiders also feed on vampires. The three fight, whereby the two can overpower and kill the subsider. When the police secured the tracks shortly afterwards, they not only found that this subsider had penetrated quite far into the suburbs and also drank from himself out of desperation - which accelerated the transformation enormously - but also found a ring in which under others the name Carl is engraved. Edward is visibly dismayed because Carl is the gardener of the residential complex, whom he saw two weeks ago. That makes him realize again how bad the shortage of blood has already progressed.
Edward also notices the first signs of a subsider by renouncing blood when he is involved in a car accident. Since the occupants of the other car are human and he fears they will be captured, he helps them by hiding them in his car and luring the alerted police officers on the wrong track. Audrey - one of the car occupants - begins to trust Edward and contacts him to ask for help and introduce him to other people. This conversation is overheard by Edward's brother Frankie, a loyal soldier of the vampire society. Edward drives to the meeting initiated by Audrey and gets to know Lionel Cormac, who is called "Elvis". As Elvis later tells Edward, he was once a vampire. However, he was briefly exposed to the sun in broad daylight in a car accident and then turned back into a human.
Several soldiers appear at the meeting point because Frankie Edwards has reported betrayal of the vampire society (as such is the treatment of people). Elvis knocks Edward's brother down so that the three of them escape after a wild chase and make their way to the people's hiding place. There is also Senator Turner, who as a vampire also tries to help the people. Edward examines Elvis' blood to find a cure.
Meanwhile, a meeting is being organized with another group of people who are to be brought to the base and safely accommodated there. This aid convoy is attacked by vampires and the people are kidnapped. Among them is Alison, the daughter of Charles Bromley, who once ran away from her father because she considered him a "monster" and did not want to be turned into a vampire.
The location of the secret base becomes known through this attack. The remaining people organize an evacuation with the help of Senator Turner, who wants to lead them to a new, safe shelter. Edward wants to stay because he has designed an experimental setup in which he can re-enact the situation in which Elvis was transformed in a controlled manner. Elvis and Audrey stay with him. After several attempts, they actually manage to turn Edward back into a person. You can hide from the approaching vampires. Senator Turner's group is not that lucky: When the three of them arrive at the agreed meeting point, they only find bodies, including those of the Senator.
Meanwhile, the situation for the vampires is getting worse. More and more of them degenerate into subsiders. Charles Bromley fails to convince his daughter of the benefits of being a vampire and eventually asks Frankie to transform Alison. Frankie bites her, but the young woman then refuses her blood rations and instead feeds on her own. This also makes it a subsider. She is exposed to sunlight and killed together with others as part of a murder campaign.
Edward seeks help. He and Audrey and Elvis visit Christopher, a colleague friend who has been researching blood substitutes with him, and tell him about the possible cure. Christopher reveals the trio, which leads to Audrey's capture. Elvis and Edward go to Bromley Marks to rescue Audrey. They get to Frankie, who - already with the clear signs of a subscriber - promises help. But then he ambushes Elvis and drinks his blood.
In Bromley's office is the handcuffed and slowly bleeding Audrey. Edward seeks out Bromley and explains to him that he can't be human. He asks the company boss to transform him again. Bromley explains to Edward that Christopher finally came up with a blood substitute and that it was never about sparing people. Instead, real blood from blood farms should continue to be available to well-paying customers and the blood substitute should be intended for the poorer population. Finally, Bromley bites Edward. However, the blood of the healed vampire heals the vampire disease: Charles Bromley becomes a human again. Edward ties him up and exposes him to a group of hungry vampire soldiers in the foyer of his company, who suck up Bromley, are healed and then attacked by the next group. So the healing continues - with great sacrifices, including Frankie.
Christopher, who is not interested in a cure for vampirism, tries to stop Edward and Audrey, but is shot by Elvis. The film ends with the three watching the sunrise in the blood and corpse-strewn lobby of Bromley Marks and then driving down a sunny country road in a car. Edward's voice can be heard from the off, promising healing to other vampires.
criticism
“Daybreakers is more appearance than reality. The trailer and story promised an original, good horror sci-fi thriller beforehand, but there isn't too much of it in the film itself. To do this, one simply wasted too much potential and implemented a lot too carelessly and simply. "
“Basically, all the characters would have done well if they had been given more profile. [...] Nonetheless, with Daybreakers, the Spierigs have succeeded in creating a pleasing hybrid that on the one hand goes the vampire film track, but at the same time comes across as fresher than its genre colleagues. "
Web links
- Daybreakers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Daybreakers on filmstarts.de
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Daybreakers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 469 V).
- ^ Box office (Daybreakers) . Retrieved January 4, 2015.
- ↑ Publication date of Germany . In: IMDb . Retrieved January 4, 2015.