Vampires never seem to lose their appeal. So many have already been made and lots more can be expected, even as a new generation of movie-goers comes of age. One of these movies about blood-suckers is called Daybreakers.

Daybreakers stars Willem Dafoe, whom some of you vampire fans know have already starred as a mean and bald vampire called Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire—a classic story of a vampire posing as an actor playing a vampire. It’s based on an old movie called Nosferatu, and in a sense, a fictionalized documentary of the famous production.

Now, Dafoe (left, as vampire Max Schreck, in Shadow of the Vampire) is in this new vampire movie reminiscent of horror-action movies like Blade and John Carpenter’s Vampires (Los Muertos). But while Carpenter’s movie is Western-inspired, Daybreakers is more science-fiction horror and reminds us of The Omega Man story wherein almost all the people on earth succumb to a disease that turn them into creatures of the night. In Daybreakers, humans are the minority and they are the ones hunted down.

Dafoe plays a vampire hunter with a fancy crossbow and some other weapons that maim and kill vampires. Together with a band of humans and Ethan Hawke’s vampire character, he and others work to save the human race even as the vampires (Sam Neill plays a corporate one) work to keep the flow of fresh blood going—the resource after all, is endangered and real blood has become scarce and expensive.

It’s a tricky situation where it’s hard to trust anyone, and it’s likely a human would likely turn out to be a vampire lackey—which was almost always a guarantee in those classic vampire movies. But this is a movie for new vampire fans and 21st century Goths out there that would definitely get a kick out of seeing ordinary people in everyday situations sporting fangs (left). It's also got some neo-classic supernatural-creature images with bat wings, pointy ears, bald heads, and licking tongues (the top picture looks like a vampire's got his tongue stuck on a freezer door). It’s a fang-fetishist’s paradise after all, and vampire fans would find that hard to resist!

Willem Dafoe also stars in a Lars Von Trier psychological movie called Antichrist. You can watch the trailer by clicking on the title link.