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…

So this is pretty much what would happen if the entire world became vampires and their human blood food source was almost completely depleted.
A totally original concept featuring a stack of heavy hitters; Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neil and Claudia Karvan (she's more relevant for us Aussies).

The Spierig brothers outdid themselves with this one and used every trick in the book to stretch their budget, making twenty dollars look like a hundred.
It immediately sucks you into its bleak, futuristic world of civilized vampires who fear starvation and devolving into freakishly mutated, bat-like Sub-siders.

There's a ton of world-building and unfortunately not enough time to fully explore everything.
The thrill of fear is everywhere; we don't want…

"I can’t be sure, of course, but I’d compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke." -Edward (nif)

-Scavenger Hunt 46: boxd.it/2hKQA
Clue 17: something where THE FUTURE IS NOW OBSOLETE (30/31 Completed)

Although this film got its predictions for 2019 wrong, I still can't decide if I would rather live in this world or take my chances in the Vampire apocalypse.

So...Vampires have taken over like a spreading disease. They now run the government, etc. and the world is starting to lose it's supply of humans. Ethan Hawke plays the role of a Vampire Hematologist working on a blood alternative, although secretly what he wants is a cure for vampirism.…

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…

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RECENSIONE INTEGRALE: www.lucatrifilio.it/recensioni/film/daybreakers-l-ultimo-vampiro-2009/

Nel 2019, la situazione sulla Terra è decisamente diversa da quella che noi tutti conosciamo: una decina d'anni prima, lo scoppio di un'epidemia di vampirismo ha fatto sì che ormai la stragrande maggioranza della popolazione mondiale sia rappresentata proprio dalle creature della notte. Lo spunto interessante di Daybreakers – L'Ultimo Vampiro è il fatto che la società si è totalmente riorganizzata: i vampiri si comportano in tutto e per tutto come esseri umani, lavorando negli orari notturni e spostandosi di giorno grazie a delle automobili i cui vetri possono oscurarsi. Le creature sono caratterizzate dal colore degli occhi molto intenso e dall'assoluta intolleranza alla luce solare, che causa la combustione della pelle e la seguente morte…