10 Best Vampire Movies Of The 2000s

9. Daybreakers (2009)

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Though not the strongest movie on the list, Daybreakers deserves props for being such a true original.

The Spierig Brothers once more team up with Predestination star Ethan Hawke to take all the aspects of vampire lore and spin them into a new, revitalising story about humanity and hope.

In a world where most humans have been turned into vampires by a vicious plague, and the human survivors are hunted for their blood, vampire scientist Edward Dalton (Hawke) works tirelessly to create a blood substitute for the starving vampire population.

After his work is interrupted in a twist of fate by vampire-turned-human Elvis Cormac (a magnificent Willem Dafoe), who has a cure for vampirism and a hope for mankind, Dalton must go against his sinister employers in hopes of bringing about a safe future for the world.

A brilliantly directed, strongly performed horror, Daybreakers is a genre-twisting, plot-twisting thriller which successfully takes all the best parts of typical vampire mythology and turns it all into a great, post-apocalyptic narrative about morality and evil.

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