Daybreakers (2008)
After a pandemic that turned most humans into vampires and made the surviving humans the vampires' prey, the neck-biters aren't sure where their next sip is coming from. Although the TV series True Blood sated the undead thirst with bottles of synthetic blood, life in Daybreakers hasn't got that far. Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke), employee of a blood-farming megacorp, is doing his best to meet the demand. Australian director-brothers Michael and Peter Spierig throw in a few deft twists.
Edge of Darkness (2010)
After highs (directing Apocalypto) and lows (that drunken 2006 rant), Mel Gibson takes a lead role for the first time since 2002's Signs. It's reminiscent of Steven Soderbergh's 1999 film The Limey, which similarly had a still-as-a-statue father (Terence Stamp in that case) rattling a lot of cages to find out more about his daughter's death. In the bonus features, Gibson compares Edge of Darkness's structure to a Jacobean tragedy. "You play cat and mouse for three acts, and in the end everyone murders each other."