DAYBREAKERS (Australia/USA 2009) ***
Directed by the Spierig Brothers

Life is a ***censored*** and then you don’t die!  Thus quotes the character Elvis (Willem Dafoe) as a human turned vampire turned human again.  The Spierig Brothers (THE UNDEAD) push the vampire genre one step further with the vamps ruling the planet where human are hunted for their blood.  Only one sympathetic vampire (Ethan Hawke) sides the humans while hunting a cure or substitute for the dwindling plasma supplies.  Can humans and the blood suckers come to a stalemate?  The Brothers handle the action segments with sufficient skill and excitement. 

A minor hit at that premiered at the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival, this is a horror film with more story, suspense and cinematography than expected.  The Brothers pull it off with a polished climatic finish in which the human race, of course, triumphs.  Well, in their way, of course!