Daybreakers

Saw Daybreakers, a vampire movie which takes place after the vampocalypse has swept the globe. Everyone's a sexy vampire now (they've really embraced the professional goth CEO look) and humans are farmed as a food supply. Unfortunately, that food supply is dwindling which causes riots and a breakdown of the vampire society (now, if only there were some way to produce new, baby humans from old, adult humans but sadly this is impossible.) Without blood, the vampires turn into Nosferatus and become un-sexily evil. Our hero is a blood chemist vampire who's searching for a vampirism-cure or a formula for synthetic blood (whichever.) His evil boss gloatingly confides that even with a synthetic blood stock, they're still eat humans, just for the sake of novelty and rarity.

The vampires are a sort of grab-bag of societal ills. At one point there is literal class warfare and the whole farming humans thing could easily be read an exploitation of a precious natural resource. The elimination of reproduction of the humans is a very odd omission. Vampires are often (and definitely in this film) metaphors for more worldly, decadent, experienced people. The "turning" process, so often male-on-female and taking place in the dead of night, blood soaking the bedsheets and leaving the victim gasping and limp, is a metaphor for sex and it's therefore very weird that in this sexy, sex-fuelled sexiverse the idea of simply breeding the humans doesn't come up. Maybe it was considered too icky for audiences (which to be fair it kind of is.)

Anyway, the soft-hearted scientist vamp teams up with some humans and fight back, ala la resistance. It's very comic-book-ey. There's a lot of reaction shots and sudden close-ups. The characters are distinguished by shorthand and are incapable of acting outside of their alignment. Grand socio-political events apparently hinge on the actions of one CEO, and are apparently stopped by a rag-tag group of rebels. It's very simplistic but takes itself seriously. There's various stabs at cultural relevancy (the class warfare, the greed of corporations, etc) but they're more broad swipes than incisive jabs and I believe are there mostly for plot reasons and so we don't forget who's the bad guy. I want there to be some cleverness though, because the elements are all there, just in a jumble. The film ends with society literally eating itself alive.