Talkin’ About My Revolutions

There’s too much Hollywood and too little soul in the Spierig Brothers’ Daybreakers and for the horror to work, says Critic After Dark Noel Vera, vampires should be allowed to creep up and play on viewers’ terror of the undead.

The Spierig Brothers’ Daybreakers might be considered the sequel to I Am Legend - I mean Richard Matherson’s short novel, not the terrible Will Smith ego trip directed by Francis Lawrence. In Matheson’s vampire classic, everyman Robert Neville finds himself confronting a fully armed and organized vampire civilization - a touch too fascistic, perhaps, with little regard for judicial process or civil rights, but that’s the flaw of all new societies (in Lawrence’s dumbed-down version the best the digitized vampires can do by way of self-expression is a murderous glare and a guttural burp).

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