It is not hard to see that vampire media is something that is in full swing. There are new television shows coming out all the time headlining vampire relationships or existing with vampires. They are everywhere you turn around, and people have tried to go above and beyond to make their versions and stories unique from anything that you might have heard or seen before. Such is the case with “Daybreakers”.
There is something to be said about a tale that can be true to vampire form, but present a story that is unlike anything that audiences have experienced before. When you are reading through this article, you are going to get a breakdown of what makes this movie unique as well as a detailed plot synopsis to help you understand the film.
Before you get into the events of the film, you should understand the plot premise by which this film takes a stand in a new story. This is the fact that after years of people being vampires and making new vampires, the world is very overrun with them. So much in fact that the human race is dying out and there is only a very small percentage of humans left on the Earth.
You should understand that this particular plot synopsis might contain spoilers that could ruin the film for those that have not seen it. This won’t be the most detailed of plot rundowns that you are likely to find, but there’s enough to tell someone too much if they didn’t want to know. The film opens on the world that is overrun with vampires, and there are only a small percentage of humans left.
Edward Dalton is one of the head minds behind the blood creating project, and is also very unhappy with being a vampire. He does not drink human blood, and he never wanted to be a vampire in the first place. However, if he cannot come up with a solution to the current blood conundrum, he along with millions of other vampires will die horribly gruesome deaths relative to starvation.
Dalton runs into some humans and he decides to help them stay alive. He is given some valuable information from Willem DaFoe’s character, Elvis. He is a human that is leading the group and he was at one point a vampire. Through a freak accident, he was able to learn the secret to becoming human again.
Having been inspired by this possibility, Edward takes it upon himself with the help of Cormac to return to being human again himself. Through exposure to the sunlight, long enough to almost cause death, the heart is shocked back into functionality.
Before he is able to do this, you learn that this blood in the new human is different. It has the power to change the vampire drinking it human as well. So Dalton has a showdown with his boss, Charles Bromley to tell him about his new cure. In anger, Bromley bites him and is turned back into a vampire. This series of events would likely be the salvation of mankind. That is “Daybreakers” in a nutshell, and you should check it out if you are into vampire flicks at all.