Daybreakers Trailer

So it turns out Daybreakers, Aussie genre junkies the Spierig brothers’ sophomore effort after 2003’s comic zombie-cum-alien-invasion romp, Undead, isn’t actually playing for laughs — well, not if its first trailer is to be believed. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, mind (least of all when you have an anemic Sam Neill front and centre as a spruce vampire ringleader) but it’s certainly something of a surprise. Tonal curveballs aside, any trailer to sport a goateed Willem Dafoe dropping dialogue like “We’re the folks with the crossbows” is alright by me, even if the film’s ‘world governed by vampires facing a dwindling food supply’ throughline feels curiously (yet elusively) familliar...

Also starring Ethan Hawke and Claudia Karvan, Daybreakers opens January 21^st 2010.

Find the trailer at Yahoo! Movies.