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Synopsis: In a world 10 years into the future, vampires make up the vast majority of the population with only 5% of the human race remaining. This presents particular challenges as the vampires' food supply - human blood - is dwindling and rationing is now the norm. There is growing evidence that vampires deprived of an adequate blood supply are themselves evolving into wild, vile creatures that attack anyone and anything in order to survive. Dr. Edward Dalton, a vampire and hematologist who works for a pharmaceutical firm, has been working on finding an artificial blood supply that will meet the vampire society's needs. He is sympathetic to humans and sees his work as a way of alleviating their suffering but his views on finding a solution change considerably when he meets someone who found a way to transform himself from being a vampire to again take human form.
Production: Lionsgate
  3 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
R
Year:
2009
98 min
$30,000,000
Website
398 Views


out of here.

We're not going anywhere

without Audrey.

- The woman?

- Yes, the woman.

You'll never

get to her.

You wanna help us?

Please.

Okay.

Okay.

God damn it.

Edward.

You've got a tan.

It suits you.

You know, Edward.

Her blood has a scent

that no substitute

could ever replace.

Fear.

I don't wanna die.

I can't do this...

being human.

Isn't that what you wanted?

I don't wanna be afraid.

I can never be free like

this, I see that now.

Please.

Help me.

What is it that you want?

Turn us both.

Let us leave.

And I'll show you a way to

repopulate your entire human supply.

What the hell are you doing?

And you would give

me this cure?

Yes.

As long as you allow

her to go free, too.

No.

She doesn't sound

that interested

in your proposition,

Edward.

In time she'll come

to understand.

Will she?

Thank you.

You know, I won't deny

that things have gotten

progressively worse

during your absence.

The public, the military;

Everyone seemed starving.

Our blood supplies

are well, gone.

Ed.

I myself was feeling

the effects of deprivation.

But as of yesterday

it's all a thing of the past.

You know, I always

thought it would be you

that would come up

with a stable substitute.

Not Christopher. But,

I guess I was wrong.

Look. We go into mass

production in two days.

It's never been about a cure.

It's about repeat business.

And besides...

what's to cure?

So you see, Edward.

I don't need you anymore.

Of course you couldn't

make it as a human.

You're weak.

The truth is:

You've always been a coward.

What did it feel like to

turn your own daughter?

Oh, you didn't do it, did you?

You couldn't, could you?

You had my brother

do it for you.

So who's the f***ing coward?

Your blood.

What have you done to me?

Vampires think they

own this world.

That the humans

have to hide from them.

That ain't true.

Every day, the sun comes up.

And every day

the vamps have to hide.

Vampires can never survive.

That's the truth.

Elvis Presley once said:

"Truth is like the sun.

you can shut it

out for a time

but it ain't going away".

Mr. Bromley.

Open up.

Treated vampire blood.

That's the cure.

Welcome back to humanity.

Now you get to die.

Move. Move.

Let's go.

Don't do this.

There's a cure.

Don't do this.

Run.

Ed.

They can't be the cure.

I can't let you do it.

I'm sorry.

We have a cure.

We can change you back.

It's not too late.

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