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i-lucas.org » Blog Archive » Charity page + daybreakers review

Feb
4

Hello netters :) This is only a very quick update to let you know that I have started to rebuild our charity page! So far, only the whaleman foundation ( and the beginning of our Save the whales again ) page is complete. Still, you will be able to take a look at many of the causes Izzy supports in there! You can view the page here.

Seeing as Isabel Lucas inspired celebrates its 5th Birthday this March, look out for tons of new features, page makeovers, new section layouts ( And perhaps even a new main page makeover? ), screencaps and images and so much more for you to celebrate it with us! :D

Last but not least, Herald sun has added a daybreakers review by Leigh Paatsch! Here it is:

Daybreakers (MA15+) **1/2 Director: The Spierig Brothers (Undead) Starring: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman

Leaving aside its obvious flaws (of which there are many) and subtle merits (of which there could have been more), Daybreakers is the vampire movie we had to have. If you think we have to have them at all, that is.

What Daybreakers does very well is drag the Drac pack back to where they should always reside: the dark side.

The Twilight franchise has been pitching vampirism as a lifestyle choice, too cool and too clean.

In Daybreakers, the never-ending need for a bleed ‘n’ feed is a disease, dangerous and dirty.

It’s the year 2019. While most of the population are now vampires – the result of a mass viral outbreak years earlier – life has been proceeding as (ab)normal.

Sure, everyone does have to work the night shift, but it’s a small price to pay for immortality.

If there is a problem for this new nocturnal world order, it’s that supplies of good, clean human blood are now in short supply.

The spooky CEO (Sam Neill) of a blue-chip red-cell bottler has his best hematologist (Ethan Hawke) working on inventing a synthetic blood substitute.

The project has about as much hope of turning tin foil into gold, and social chaos starts to break out everywhere.

A new sub-class of vampires known as subsiders start snacking on each other.

As for Hawke’s harried scientist, he is secretly investigating the possibility of becoming a human again.

It can be done and a renegade vampire killer named Elvis (Willem Dafoe) has the know-how.

Directed by Australian horror hounds the Spierig Brothers, Daybreakers initially explores some smart ideas about life in an all-vampire world. And funny ones, too.

(Many fanged folk like to start the night with a shot of blood in their coffee.)

However, once the Spierigs deem it’s time for the gore department to earn their creep, the film devolves into a collection of comically exploding vamps.

If you have seen one ghoul combust like a pricked pressure pack of pet food and pasta sauce, you’ve seen them all.


By V :: February 04, 2010

Isabel is gorgeous. It would be nice to see her have more screen time in films, because she is a very good actress. But the role she plays in Daybreakers is a good and powerful one, even though she didnt get much screen time.

Daybreakers was a good film but the ending was a let down, considering what happens in the film. I still suggest people go see it. Its a refreshing Vampire story, not at all like the Vampire stories that we see these days (though personally I do love The Twilight Books and TV Show True Blood).


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