Just what the world needs at the minute, right? More vampires. Well, that’s what I was thinking (that and a slight feeling of confusion when the trailer for Legion played before the main feature because I half-thought that was the movie I’d gone to watch; angels, vampires…easy mistake to make). But anyway, yeah, vampires. Thanks to the recent literary and cinematic phenomenon named after a certain time of day, it seems we’re up to our necks in the pointy-teethed folks once again (some might say they never went away in the first place). Thankfully, there’s no cushy and vaguely questionable romance to be found here, and Daybreakers keeps a reasonable distance from the typical portrayal of vampires. Mostly by just pretending that they’re zombies instead.
