A History of Horror Weekly Challenge 2018

Week 3: Vampires

I am so behind on these challenges but then I’ve never been a fan of schedules so I guess I’m doing it my way?

In this horror thriller, vampires outnumber humans and since humans are food, the vampires are faced with finding a new food supply or starving. It’s kind of creepy how on some level this parallels current real life events with water in South Africa, innit? This was quite good and I loved the all the world building in this one. The story was original and there were some really neat things they did throughout like the “daylight driving mode”.

Ethan Hawke is awesome all the time in…

After Victory, after everything that isn't has been defeated and ravaged, the victor must consume itself, first by subdividing into self and not-self, with self consuming not-self until it is gone and then starting over and over again, finding new markets, new growth opportunities. There isn't a way to make this harmless. There isn't a way to make the world safe for exploitation. It is autophagy and if it ends, it ends in death. If it doesn't end, after it consumes all life on this planet, it will find another and another and another and if it cannot, it will consume itself until what it is left is bled so dry it cracks and crumbles and falls away from itself…

A concept that had real originality, this was a better than expected horror film with some great ideas and some interesting visuals.
An America in the near future where most of the inhabitants have been turned into vampires by a virus is a surprisingly fresh idea. Going around their normal lives, only mostly in the evening when the sun has gone down, this has a plot that's been painstakingly creative in it's all round vision of the new environment for its population. With blacked-out cars and underground walkways, the concept has been expanded from just some scary vampires. The whole set-up adds to the thought of this society as everyday and nothing out of the ordinary. Blood with your coffee…

This film had a cool premise but was let down but a confusing story with awful pacing. The first half opens well, throwing us into this world where vampires have become the dominant species and are imprisoning human donors for blood. We're introduced to Edward (Ethan Hawke), a hematologist for a big company that supplies blood who has been tasked with developing a substitute for blood. One night, a car accident brings Edward into the life of Audrey (Claudia Karvan), a human who hints at knowing more about the blood substitute. This setup makes it seems like the film is going to be a really interesting take on conspiracy films. The second half is more predictable and dull with an…