Daybreakers (2010) poster
2010 · action · fantasy · sci-fi · survival

Daybreakers

Directed by Michael Spierig1h 38m2010
ElsewhereIMDb6.4140kRT69%Metacritic57
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • surreal
  • epic-stakes
Movie DNA

Neutral, breathless, extreme action / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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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. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a slick vampire dystopia with corporate blood politics and Hawke angst.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorejump scaresbody horror

Skip it tonightCreature gore and subsider body horror will sour your late-night snack.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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