Daybreakers (2010) movie

The 2010 movie Daybreakers movie starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Isabel Lucas and Sam Neill asks the burning question: what if almost the whole human population had turned into vampires? We find out in all the bloody details as we look at the world in 2019 through Hawke's vampire character who works for a company that both farms humans for their blood supply and which is also working on a blood substitute because there is simply not enough human blood around for all the vampires to survive. Naturally, there is a cure, but it is a very painful one for any vampire to endure and for many vampires, the virus that gave them immortality is no longer seen as a disease but a blessing if only those last humans would cooperate.

The Passage (2010) novel

The Passage (2010), a lengthy, rambling novel by Justin Cronin, combines some familiar apocalyptic plot elements into an end of the world odyssey. We have a military-induced virus that turns people into vampire-like creatures, beginning with test subjects who are soldiers in an underground installation (shades of Resident Evil), we have errant nuclear bombs going off and we have a future earth, largely depopulated, but with enough survivors to carry on.

The Strain (2009) novel, Book 1 of the Strain Trilogy

Mexican superstar motion picture director Guillermo del Toro, who lives in Los Angeles, California, USA, and novelist Chuck Hogan, who published a similar work in 1998, The Blood Artists, have teamed up to kill off the world with a vampirism virus in their Strain Trilogy:

• Book 1, The Strain (2009)



• Book 2, The Fall (2010)



• Book 3, The Night Eternal (2011)

In Book 1 that favorite target of doomsday scenarios, New York City, is ground zero for this virus, the likes of which have been seen before.

I Am Legend (1954) novel

Richard Matheson's 1954 horror novel I Am Legend so scared me just from its description that I never read it. It was adapted into three film versions: The Last Man on Earth (1964) starring Vincent Price, The Omega Man (1971) starring Charlton Heston, which I have seen and I Am Legend (2007) starring Will Smith, which I have also seen.