10 Futuristic Sci-Fi Movies That Now Take Place In The Past
9. Daybreakers
Daybreakers is one of Ethan Hawke's better ventures into low-budget genre territory that he tends to alternate with critically-acclaimed work in independent dramas, but luckily for us the prospect of a worldwide plague being caused by an infected bat has remained strictly within the realms of sci-fi...
The movie's depiction of the year 2019 sees the human population largely kept around for their nutritional value, as a superior race of immortal vampires have ascended to the top of the food chain. Hawke's Edward Dalton is against the idea of using people for sustenance and favors animal blood instead, but ends up teaming up with Willem Dafoe's Elvis to find a cure, because a guy that accidentally turned himself back into a mere mortal by crashing a Chevy into a fence is somehow humanity's best hope for finding a cure.
The Spierig Brothers do a great job on putting a fresh twist on the more than familiar vampire genre, managing to have a few digs at greedy capitalists along the way, but despite being one of the more original efforts in recent years Daybreakers still got lost in the shuffle among a raft of similarly-themed titles that arrived around the same time.