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DAYBREAKERS Blu-ray Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: May 13th, 2010 at 10:16 am

The vampire genre is the most malleable horror metaphor/plot device in cinema. From Nosferatu, to Lugosi’s Dracula, we can witness unwelcome sexual horror in Max Shrek, to Bela Lugosi’s more welcome sexual advances. In The Lost Boys, it’s a metaphor for being accepted, and in The Addiction its meaning becomes self-evident. And there are a number of Vampire films that have traded on A.I.D.S. to give meaning to blood-sucking. For the Spierig Brothers blood and vampirism becomes a metaphor for oil in their film Daybreakers. Ethan Hawke stars as a hematologist vampire working on finding a blood substitute for the world’s now-majority vampire population. A chance encounter leads him to Willem Dafoe and a possible cure for vampirism. Against him are Sam Neill and the global industrial complex, which are happy to plunder the remaining resources. My review of Daybreakers Blu-ray after the jump.

DAYBREAKERS Review – TIFF ’09

by Monika Bartyzel    Posted: September 9th, 2009 at 11:07 pm

Vampires are all the rage these days, between the tween thrust of “Twilight” and the sexual abandon of “True Blood”. But “Daybreakers” is not like its current brethren – it’s a classic vamp movie that follows some beloved myths while also introducing the genre to a whole new world of deadly circumstances. One, I might add, that doesn’t have any diamond-studded bloodsuckers. Read on to see why you should see “Daybreakers”.

NATURE’S GRAVE DVD Review

by Richard Toledo    Posted: September 4th, 2009 at 7:22 am

Behold the unholy crapstorm that is Nature’s Grave, the most incoherent attempt at a horror movie I have ever seen.  Dramatically inert, devoid of scares and completely limp, this movie has absolutely no business existing other than to irritate the frakking hell out of me.  To date this is the most difficult assignment I’ve gotten for the simple reason that this stupid movie is damn near impossible to describe.  The sheer ineptitude on display is bewildering and very, very sad.  I’ll do my best to explain why it’s so freakishly awful after the jump.

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