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Ethan Hawke ('Daybreakers')

8 hours ago | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »

Daybreakers has all the pieces of a great film. Its sole and constant disappointment is that it does not behave like one. The writer-director team of Peter and Michael Speirig diligently assemble a darkly brilliant vision of a future ruled by vampires, but the narrative that inhabits it is built from bombastic lines and cliché drama fitting a blockbuster action flick. They take a piece of art and use it for a newsstand-caliber comic book.

One of the artists lending a grim shine to the film is Ethan Hawke, who I interviewed at the Sls Hotel. The Sls was an ideal venue for Daybreakers-a stark setting with blank, geometric furnishings that suggest both luxury and sterility-and Hawke conveys this aesthetic of chill immortality well in the film. A dramatic actor, his resumé finds him at the center of artistic visions such as Waking Life and Gattica. In Daybreakers, he »

- M C Funk

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Ethan Hawke Talks About Joining the Horror Genre With Daybreakers

22 hours ago | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

Ethan Hawke is not the typical choice for a horror movie actor, and the upcoming Daybreakers is accordingly his first picture in the genre. Hawke explained to ShockTillYouDrop why he decided to appear in a vampire movie.

I wanted to do something I hadn't done. My first movie [Explorers] was with Joe Dante and all he'd talk about with Roger Corman, and those kinds of pictures like The Howling and Piranha, those are his first — he'd talk passionately about the power of genre filmmaking and what it can be. I have some base awareness of it, but I fancy myself a dramatic actor and I had finished Tom Stoppard's [play] The Coast of Utopia, which is nine hours about mid-19th century Russian radicals, and [Daybreakers], a vampire movie, sounded like a lot of fun.

Despite the current vampire craze, Hawke says Daybreakers will add something "new" to the genre.

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- Ryan Gowland

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Ethan Hawke Talks Daybreakers

5 January 2010 12:31 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

When you think of Ethan Hawke, I can almost guarantee that you wouldn’t necessarily associate him with the horror genre. But that’s one thing the seasoned thespian (Hawke stays busy both on the big screen as well as in the theater) is about to change this Friday when Daybreakers gets released.

Dread Central recently had the opportunity to talk with Hawke during the La press junket to find out his thoughts on working in the genre, what drew him to the project, and how he feels Daybreakers matches up against that tiny little phenomenon known as Twilight.

“What’s great about Daybreakers is that it’s the first post-adolescent vampire movie in a long time,” said Hawke. “What’s funny is that when I first got the script, a vampire movie seemed like a radically different idea at the time. No one was doing vampire stuff just then »

- thehorrorchick

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Of Wolf And Man (Book Review)

1 January 2010 1:29 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

I have to say, I love Werewolves. More so than vampires, more so than zombies, these shape-shifting, femur gnawing, jugular slashing, hounds of hell (for me) stand far above the slew of other mainstream monster menace. Regrettably however, these carnivorous canines, by comparison, seem to be miserably underrepresented in popular cinema. Only two, maybe three, genuinely great werewolf movies come to mind; John Landis’ An American Werewolf In London and Joe Dante’s original Howling (and, if we must round out a top three The Company Of Wolves by director Neil Jordan). Now I know some of you will try and pitch me Ginger Snaps, Dog Soldiers, or the original Wolf Man with Lon Chaney, and yeah, sure, those are all ok. Others of you, the less cultured, may recommend something from the Underworld/Van Helsing lot (crap), but, by and large, when it comes to werewolf flicks, we’re »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Compton)

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