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'Daybreakers' Trailer: Even Vampires Blow at Resource Management

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Look out vampire-teen-abstinence-romance, there's a new vampire crossover genre in vampire town: vampire-sci-fi-action-noir! In Daybreakers, the we're-exhausting-our-precious-resources! ecological warning is given the Twilight twist, with the vampire race--Earth circa 2019's new dominant society--finding itself on the verge of running out of humans to harvest for blood. It's something like this:

"Nowwwwwww what?", says Vampire Co. CEO Sam Neill.

"I'll work on it. I'm dead, anyway. Because I'm a vampire," explains Ethan Hawke.

"I have crossbows," warns Willem Dafoe.

It actually looks somewhat better than that horrible description. Trailer:

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