‘Daybreakers’ trailer breaks out.

I hate this poster.   I didn’t like the Spierig Brothers previous film, ‘Undead’.   With all that said, the trailer looks great.   It has a good concept behind it and you can tell that the Spierig brothers definitely perfected and polished their filmmaking.   However, we won’t find out how this film is until JANUARY 2010! That may not sound ridiculous to some, but to anyone with their ear on the ground of horror film development would know that the filming was completed back in September 2007. Reshoots did occur. Also, when I was doing research, I stumbled across an interview back in 2007 with star Ethan Hawke:

“It takes place in the future and the whole world is vampires. We’re eating our own resources so people are trying to come up with blood substitutes, trying to get us off of foreign humans,” Hawke said. “It’s a huge allegory for where we are.”But just because it’s an allegory for a serious issue (dwindling fossil fuels), that doesn’t mean the flick takes itself seriously, said Hawke. “[It’s] low art,” the former Mr. Thurman confessed. “Completely unpretentious and silly.”

Add it all up…Poster ripping from the poster  ’30 Days of Night’, the trailer taking the film seriously and the Hawke comment about it being “low art” and “silly”, I worry that the sloppiness from ‘Undead’ might have carried over with the Spierig Brothers’ latest entry to celluoid.   On the plus side, the trailer sports a awesome cover of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” from Placebo and the creatures are designed by Weta.

Enjoy the trailer below & leave your comments