Daybreakers. Written and Directed by Michael and Peter Spierig. In Theaters.

Oh Daybreakers, how I loved you so! Finally, a vampire movie where the undead actually suck peoples blood, rip out jugulars, and they don't sparkle like diamonds in sunlight. Yeah, that's a jab at Twilight (still the worst vampire movie ever made, as well as one the worst films of all time). Daybreakers was my 30th birthday present from my dad. I told him it was coming out on my birthday, and I wanted my wife, my sister, her boyfriend, and my dad to come with me to see a true vampire film. Honestly, if I had the money, I would have driven to the nearest middle school taken every tween girl out of class and taken them all to see this movie. Twilight is not the be all and end all of vampires. Hell, they're not even vampires at all. They are "vegetarian", they like to fly up trees, and they love to dance under the moonlight like some kind of horrible teen flick gone wrong! Daybreakers will show you vampires!

The basic premise of the film is a vampire virus has made the majority of the world undead. The movie begins with the vampire race running short on humans to feed on. Soon, the vampires will be out of blood and transform into "underdwellers", ugly human-bat like creatures that live under ground and eat anything and everything that moves. So, the main character, played by Ethan Hawke, happens to be a vampire scientist who no longer wants to be a vampire, yet works for the largest human harvesting company in the world. His job is to create a blood substitute that can be created in a lab, so everyone in the world can be a vampire without the threat of no more food. The movie is really about what happens when we use up all our resources. It's a look at where we as humans are going right now if we continue on the path we've been walking. Now, don't get me wrong, the movie does have a moral, but that doesn't make it boring at all. There is enough blood and gore to satisfy even me (which is saying a lot), and enough story and character development to satisfy those who like their movies to speak to them on a deeper level. I absolutely loved this movie! It was so nice to see a vampire latch onto someones neck and bite off a chunk of flesh. It's been too long! Plus, the movie has one of the most unexpected moments within the first 20 minutes. I'll just say this, if you go see this movie, when they bring in a vampire soldier to test the new blood substitute, get ready for one of the most awesome scenes of gore in quite some time.

Halloween II. Written and Directed by Rob Zombie. On dvd.

First, a comment to all you movie snobs, Rob Zombie's movies KICK ASS! Everything I heard, from pre-production to dvd release was how awful Halloween II was. Let me kill that negativity right off the top. I loved Halloween II! It had all the elements of a great slasher movie. Gore. Check. Profanity. Check. Sex. Check. Drugs and alcohol. Check. Creative kill scenes. Check. Okay, maybe the story line was a little weak, does that even matter? The first Nightmare on Elm Street wasn't going to win any Oscars for writing either! I believe all the negativity that surrounded this movie came from stuck up, romantic comedy loving, wouldn't know a good movie if it sat on their face, movie critics. From the first scene to the credits, I was in horror movie heaven. The true test, and the most accurate gauge of how good a horror movie is, happens to be my wife. In the past 8 years I have subjected her to some of the most gruesome, disgusting, and over the top horror movies ever made. Let me say this, she has taken it like a champ! So, when we sat down to watch Halloween II for the first time, I was intrigued by what my wife would have to say. After the final scene, while the credits began to roll, she turns to me and says, "within the first 15 minutes of that movie, I wanted to puke twice!" JACKPOT! Horror movie gold! If it makes my wife want to vomit, you can bet your ass I LOVED IT!

I'm not really going to get too in depth with the synopsis of the film. It's about a killer in a William Shatner mask who comes back to Illinois to kill his only surviving family member. Pretty self explanatory unless you've been living under a rock in the middle of Iraq for the past 30 years. Just know this...from House of a 1000 Corpses, Devils Rejects, Halloween, The Haunted Life of El Superbeasto, Rob Zombie has been making GREAT horror films. They are bleak, ultra-violent jaunts into a world of chaos and perversion, and as long as he keeps cranking them out, I will continue to shell out my hard earned money to see them. If you don't like Rob Zombie films, well, you are no friend of mine!