Daybreakers (2009)
The Spierig brothers imagined a near future where vampirism has won. It is a genuinely smart science-fiction idea, and for its first hour the film is a sharp dystopian satire.
Actor: Sam Neill
Sam Neill was raised in New Zealand and broke through in Australian and British film with My Brilliant Career and Reilly Ace of Spies.
Jurassic Park gave him Alan Grant, whose function is to be the adult in the room, and The Piano, for Jane Campion, gave him the more difficult role as a husband whose cruelty is entirely conventional for the period.
Possession, from 1981, is the strangest thing he has done and worth seeking out. He runs a vineyard in Central Otago and wrote a memoir during cancer treatment.
