| Front Cover |
Actor |
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| Wesley Snipes |
Blade
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| Stephen Dorff |
Deacon Frost
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| Kris Kristofferson |
Whistler
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| N'Bushe Wright |
Karen
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| Donal Logue |
Quinn
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| Udo Kier |
Dragonetti
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| Arly Jover |
Mercury
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| Traci Lords |
Racquel
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| Kevin Patrick Walls |
Krieger
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| Tim Guinee |
Curtis Webb
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| Wesley Snipes |
Blade/Eric Brooks/'The Daywalker'
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| Kris Kristofferson |
Abraham Whistler
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| N'Bushe Wright |
Dr. Karen Jenson
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| Udo Kier |
Vampire Elder Dragonetti
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| Kevin Patrick Walls |
Officer Krieger
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| Tim Guinee |
Dr. Curtis Webb
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Action; Sci-Fi; Horror |
| Director |
Steve Norrington; Stephen Norrington |
| Writer |
David S. Goyer |
| Studio |
New Line Cinema |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
R |
| Running Time |
2 hr 1 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| British director Stephen Norrington helmed this David S. Goyer adaptation of the Marvel Comics character created in 1973 by scripter Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan . In the Tomb of Dracula comic book origin, just before Blade's mother gave birth to Blade, she was bitten by a vampire, which made Blade immune to vampires. Now a vampire hunter, Blade, joined by vampire detective Hannibal King and Dracula-descendent Frank Drake, stalks vampires. In the 1990s (in Marvel's Nightstalkers ), Blade teamed with Drake and King in an agency created to fight a variety of supernatural beings. The Marvel origin is retold in this 1998 Norrington film, with Blade's mother dying as he is born. Thirty-some years later, Blade now exists somewhere between the two worlds, not human but not fully vampire. He has become a relentless and superhuman vampire hunter, out to avenge the death of his mother and protect the rest of humankind from the evil vampire race. In this pursuit, Blade storms a notorious vampire nightclub and in a virtual bloodbath manages to wipe out most of the blood-lusting denizens. But the burnt corpse of vampire Quinn ( Donal Logue ) is reanimated at the hospital morgue and bites hematologist Karen Jenson ( N'Bushe Wright ). Blade magically appears at the hospital just in time to whisk Karen to his hideaway, a machine-shop run by his mentor Abraham Whistler ( Kris Kristofferson ), who once rescued Blade and who now produces a antidote to keep Blade from turning into a full-fledged vampire and who builds custom weapons for Blade to use against his evil foes. Meanwhile, Blade's vampire arch-nemesis Deacon Frost ( Stephen Dorff ) uses computers to translate the Book of Erebus, with the ultimate aim of bringing down the old-guard vampire council, headed by Dragonetti ( Udo Kier ), and triggering the Blood Tide — an event in which everyone in the world becomes a vampire. — Bhob Stewart |
| Personal Details |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
159 |
| In Collection |
Yes |
| Purchase Date |
8/2/2003 |
| Tape Label |
54 |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
VHS |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Release Date |
2003 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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