The Total Bastard Database

The greatest killers, madmen, monsters and maniacs in horror movie history.

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DARK SEEKERS

AKA:

Unfortunately this particular bunch of
miscreants weren’t played by actors
but by a bunch of computer pixels
instead. Much better huh? No.

Were bastards in:

I Am Legend (2007)

So who the hell are they?

Though in Richard Mattheson’s original novel of the same name the Dark Seekers are essentially vampires, in this film they are more like zombies. Admittedly they are bug shit crazy zombies who melt in sunlight but with their pale skin,

hairlessness and apocalyptic rage they seem more like recent incarnations of the walking dead more than anything else.

That’s not a knife…

Though they seemingly lack the reasoning skills to utilise tools their leader does seem to be able to set quite a complex trap for the last surviving human, Robert Neville (Will Smith). Most of the time though these stupid bastards just headbutt stuff – the floor, reinforced walls, safety glass – anything really. They’re also pretty handy with their big teeth and claws.

Why, for the love of God, Why??!!?

The Dark Seekers of the film have retained their prose counterparts’ bloodlust and have a preternatural ability to sense it. Not good news for anyone who wants to hold onto theirs.

So what’s the damage?

The Dark Seekers were created when an apparent cure for cancer when spectacularly wrong transforming some people into rabid animals whilst outright killing others and leaving a small portion unchanged. They don’t remain unchanged for long with all those blood thirsty mutant zombie vampire things running around though… Pretty much the death of the entire human race then…or is it?

It’s a million to one chance but it might just work…

Short of killing pretty much the entire population of the world the only other solution would be to cure them. It’s just a shame that the last man on Earth isn’t a hard as nails military-trained genius molecular biologist really. Oh yeah, he is. That’s lucky.

Words of wisdom:

Headbutt…“Raarrrgghh”….more headbutts

By Matt Compton

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