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DAYBREAKERS UK Quad and TV Spot

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The Spierig Brothers’ debut film, UNDEAD, was funny, quirky, and violent all the way up until it got completely ridiculous and nearly unwatchable.   If early word from Fantasic Fest is any indication, their follow-up film, DAYBREAKERS, is head and shoulders above that first effort.   The trailer (which seems to be playing in front of EVERYTHING now) is one of the better trailers of the year and gets you excited to see if the film can live up to it.

Today, courtesy of Empire Online, we have the UK Quad poster you see above.   It features a quote from Variety claiming the film to be THE MATRIX meets 28 DAYS LATER…, two films that never crossed my mind while reading about or seeing items about DAYBREAKERS.   Gotta love any poster that features Willem Dafoe brandishing a crossbow.

We also bring you today the first TV spot from the film that plays like a pseudo-PSA.

Check it out:

DAYBREAKERS hits theaters on January 8th, 2010.

DAYBREAKERS Farms Up a New Poster

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Short and to the point, just like this poster courtesy of MTV, this image is damned impressive.  It doesn’t use Photoshopped heads of stars like Ethan Hawk or Willem Dafoe to pimp out the film, and, oddly enough, I’m always curious about posters that put all of the detailed information up and away from the bottom.  In fact, the entire marketing for DAYBREAKERS has been impressive since the get-go.  Judging from word out of Fantastic Fest, the film lives up to the hype, as well.

DAYBREAKERS hits theaters on January 8th, 2010.

‘Daybreakers’ trailer breaks out.

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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