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Vampires

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"Few creatures of the night have captured our imagination like vampires.
What explains our enduring fascination with vampires? Is it the overtones of sexual lust, power, control? Or is it a fascination with the immortality of the undead?"

Feel free to post any vampire-related content here. I'll be posting various vampire media I enjoy just as a way of kickstarting this community but don't let that stop you from posting something else. I just wanted a place to discuss vampire movies, books, games, etc.
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Daybreakers is an interesting movie. There are a lot of vampire stories where some powerful vampire wants to enslave the human race and keep them as cattle. But in those stories, the vampire is always stopped before they can actually enact their plan. Daybreakers imagines the logistics involved with 95% of humanity being vampires.

You can tell the filmmakers spent a lot of time thinking about how life would be different if everyone was a vampire. If everyone on the planet would die if they saw sunlight, how would cars change? How would houses change? How would cities change? Suddenly subways become the dominant form of travel. Also, there wouldn't be enough blood to go around and now you have a food shortage.

The movie has a great cast with Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, and Sam Neill. While the setting and world-building is fantastic, I think the story's plot gets a little 'deus ex machina' where the solution was a little too easy just as a way to end the movie.

Anyway, here's a trailer. You can watch it on Roku, Pluto, and Plex. I recommend it.

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[โ€“] jordanlund@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Using "peak blood" to make a statement about "peak oil" was brilliant. Naturally, the solution to both? Solar. LOL.

[โ€“] Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago

I believe it was supposed to be the first of a trilogy or something.

Anyway, love the bit where the human talks to the vampire and the vamp turns around and the human disappears. Instead of the other way around.

[โ€“] Rokin@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

I watched it back in 2011 and couldn't really remember it so I watched it again few days ago. It really is an interesting movie, mostly because of it's alternative take on a world with vampires, but also because of the great worldbuilding. It is well acted and solidly directed, but the story and characters have some shallow development. It is still a good movie. I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in vampires.