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But what matters is not what is cut, but what is in the movie, and as such, the movie stands as still another example of the UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT.

Well whattya know? I was right! NIGHT JUNKIES has a lot of white survivors, but only white survivors.

So let's say that this movie was real life, and in real life everyone who was not white was slaughtered and only the white people were allowed to live. The non-whites who were all slaughtered were done in by a bunch of other white people (the creators of this film). They did it without giving a reason why. Well then, who am I to judge them? I have no idea what they were thinking!

So what am I saying? That the creators of this film are racist or bigoted?
No.
Am I saying that they made a film that uses the standard Racial Cliché of killing off everyone who isn't white and leaving only white survivors?
YES!

Make no mistake, they die heorically! They die saving the white folks! They are a credit to their race! But they still die. In one scene, Carter Davies (Samoan actor Nathanial Lees: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, THE MATRIX: RELOADED, THE MATRIX: REVOLUTIONS), finds himself turning into a vampire, and asks a white guy to please kill him. Which the white guy does, by chopping off his head. Later in the movie, Billy Kitka (Maori/Arawa actor Manu Bennet), also starts turning and the same white guy chops his head off too!

In this movie, if you're a non-white you don't get killed off by the vampires, you get your head chopped off by a white friend trying to do you a favor! Yow! I mean, I loved this movie, but ... wow!

Understand that there are still people who argue with me over this. So let me clarify a few things.

Does the URCA mean that anyone who kills off all of the minorities in their movie is racist? Absolutely not. Does that mean they are following a thoughtless, no-talent, hack, worn-out, clichéd racial stereotype trope? Yes! That is exactly what it means.

So does THAT mean that anyone who EVER does this in their movie is a racist or an untalented hack? Nope. But consider: Suppose there was a new cliché! And that new Hollywood trope meant that every woman who appears in the Horror Thriller movie is violently raped (that's what rape is, you know. There is no such thing as a passive rapist). Nearly every time a Hollywood Horror Thriller movie came out, every woman in the picture got raped on camera. What would that mean? If you are a woman reading this, how would that make you feel? How would you feel to know that every movie theater had at least one movie playing where every woman in the film gets raped. And those movies play 365 days a year.

How about if nearly every Horror Thriller movie that came out of Hollywood had an obligatory male homosexual rape scene of every male in the picture? Imagine that: Nearly every Hollywood Horror Thriller movie from this moment on will have an obligatory male homosexual rape scene. By the end of the movie, every man in the picture has been forcefully sodomized at least once by another man. If you are a man reading this, how would it make you feel to know that there was an entire section in your local video rental pstore that had every male actor in the movie raped? What would that mean? Would it mean anything?

How do you feel even reading this? Of course, if you are a minority woman or man in the U.S., you already know how it feels to walk into your local video rental store and know that nearly every Hollywood Horror Thriller movie, in its own section, kills off every last person who has your skin color. Nearly every one. Hell, they practically have the entire section dedicated to it!

Maybe it would be, like some people say of the UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT, all just coincidence. That however many men got raped in the movie just happened to be the ones who get raped in the movie. Like the UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT is all just a long string of coincidences. by the way, HACK! makes the 73rd coincidence. 30 since the year 2000 alone.

...and counting.

Hey, big cast! Lots of people! How many do you think were minorities?

Only one token in a starring role. Azie Tesfai, as Jamie, gets killed off right quick.

Lots of people die, lots of people live, but in the huge cast of people who survive and have speaking parts, guess how many are white? All of them. Only white survivors.

Not that this "Kill all of the minorities in a Hollywood Horror Thriller movie" actually exists, mind you. This is merely coincidence #74 in the "Nobody cares if I kill off every person of your race in my movie" URCA.

"I went to see Logan's Run, right? They had a movie of the future called Logan's Run. Ain't no n*ggers in it. I said, well, white folks ain't planning for us to be here.
That's why we gotta make movies, and we be in the future. But we gotta make some really hip movies. We done made enough movies about pimps, because white folks already know about pimpin’. We the biggest hoe’s they got!"
-Richard Pryor

Pryor said that back in the 1970s and in various newspapers and magazines, writers tried to set Richard's mind at ease. No, no, no, there were some black people in Logan's Run! Honest! Well, one anyway. Why, if Richard had only paid attention to the last five minutes of the movie, before the credits, for about one second, he would have seen a black woman (or maybe a man, it was very fast), in the crowd scene as everyone leaves the city.

To all of that I say, "Stop trying to find a loophole. It looks desperate."

In THE TRIPPER, the main token black character of drug addled Linda (Actor Marsha Thomason) gets butchered. Lots of white survivors at the end who were Actual Characters in the movie. Just no black ones. No minority survivors at all.

So I draw this line (not for the first time) because the band Fishbone is in the movie. Fishbone aka Norwood Fisher, says one line (besides his song). "The show's over." That's not a starring role. That's an extra with one line. Any black people who are actual characters in the movie die. There is one other extra, apparently not part of the band, who plays a drum during the dance scene where the extras are acting all drugged up. As the only noticable black man in a sea of white folk, slapping a congo drum, he stands out for the (perhaps) 1.5 seconds he has onscreen. That's it! And in the DVD commentary, while we are watching all of these white people dancing and acting wired, one of the commenters (I think it was Richmond Arquette - whose character of Deputy Cooper also survives) makes a point of saying that he thought the "Drummer really was on drugs."

Classy.

Now of course, Richmond was actually in the movie so he would know better than me. But it was still odd how he singled out the only black guy in an entire crowd scene for being the only one really on drugs. To be fair, since David Arquette, Jason Mewes, and Jaime King were all recovering from heroin addiction at the time they made this flick, perhaps it was a compliment?

Shot in England, Scotland, and South Africa, three of this movie's four production companies are based in Hollywood. What does that mean? Only that DOOMSDAY continues the UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHE ALERT theory. There can be any number of reasons, or excuses, as to why it was used here. But that said, it was still used.

Eden Sinclair's second-in-command Norton (Adrian Lester: THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW), and Prime Minister Hatcher (Alexander Siddig), don't survive to the credits. Only three Scots make it, and you don't get much whiter than the Scottish.