Pin It  Hollywood Product: Daybreakers   The Spierig brothers
inject new blood into vampire genre  GENRE: Intellectual vampire
thriller  THE PITCH: In the near future, a plague has infected
the majority of the world's population, transforming them into
bloodthirsty vampires. Naturally, the remaining humans become
the primary food. The blood supply reaches critical levels and
society starts to break down. Vampire hematologist Edward Dalton
(Ethan Hawke) desperately seeks a substitute, but is recruited
by the humans to unlock the medical mystery within human-turned-
vampire-turned-human-again Elvis Cormac (Willem Dafoe), which
could hold humanity's salvation.  VAMP FACTOR: These vampires
are of the frou-frou variety more akin to TV's "True Blood" and
"The Vampire Diaries" or the Twilight movies. They're handsome,
well-groomed, and have blood-red eyes and not-so-pale skin.
Their main weakness, of course, is sensitivity to sunlight (or
ultraviolet radiation if you wanna be technical). If they don't
consume blood,