A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires.A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires.A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 11 nominations
Kenny Johnson
- Heatseeking Dennis
- (as Kenneth Johnson)
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- Writer
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- TriviaWhen David S. Goyer first pitched the idea of doing a Blade movie, the executives of New Line felt there were only three actors who could possibly do the role: Wesley Snipes, Denzel Washington and Laurence Fishburne, but in Goyer's mind, Snipes was always the perfect choice for the character of Blade.
- Goofs(at around 1h 35 mins) There are twelve pure-bloods needed to complete the ritual, but Mercury seemingly kills one of them before the ritual starts. However, careful viewing of their entry to the temple floor shows there to be thirteen pure-bloods in the group. Evidently they brought a spare.
- Crazy creditsThe opening and closing New Line Cinema logos are in red.
- Alternate versionsThe TNT/TBS cable TV version cut the graphic violence and gory explosions and made usual adjustments to language but sometimes would omit the Moscow ending and end right after Blade and Karen say goodbye.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Blood Tide (1998)
- SoundtracksConfusion (Pump Panel Recon Mix)
Written by Stephen Morris, Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert and Arthur Baker
Performed by New Order
Courtesy of London Records 90 Limited
By Arrangement with PolyGram Film & TV Music
Featured review
Techno-vampire film with creepy scenes , grisly combats , unstopped action, and a lot of computer generador game visuals
First part of a notable trilogy with Wesley Snipes as Blade, a mythical Vampire Hunter : part man , part vampire , all hero battling other bloodsuckers and nasty people . Shortly before dying in childbirth , a woman : Sanaa Lathan, is bitten by a vampire , and her son , Blade : Wesley Snipes , becomes a Hybrid wtith a tortured soul . He faces off Deacon Frost : Stephen Dorff . Shortly after, Blade meets his pal, mentor and colleage called Whistler : Kris Kristopherson and along with a doctor : N'Bushe Wright , who our hero saves from the vampires, all of them join forces to vanquish Frost who dreams an apocalypse that will install him as only ruler of Earth.
Moving vampire film packing a great number of surprises , thrills , chills , cutting-edge terror, gloatingly sadistic fights with visceral violence and lots of blood and gore . This time the eerie enemy results to be a mestizo, hybrid vampire who kills human people and other bloodsuckers by getting his purport at whatever cost , to create a new kind of vampire . This messily choreographed film is acceptable and tense but is spoiled by a flashy, weak script. It is just another bloodsucker movie wrapping with breathtaking and violent fights , eye-catching visuals and atmospheric sinister scenarios. The picture is really influenced by various genres , music and comic-books , this eclectic influence includes Rap , Marvel , Hong Kong martial arts , Japanese Samurai, Video games, but stripped down to such basics as dialogue and script . Wesley Snipes is nice as tough , two-fisted as well as complex , ambiguous hero who wages war against vampires vulnerable to garlic and silver. He is well accompanied by a fine support cast , such as N'Bushe Wright, Donald Logue , Arly Jover , Sanaa Lathan , Tim Guinee, Traci Lords and Udo Kier. The motion picture was professionally directed by Stephen Norrington .
This trilogy about Blade , scourge if the bloodsuckers , being based on Marvel Comic group comic-books and formed by the following ones : Blade 1998 . Blade II 2002 by Guillermo del Toro with Leonor Varela, Ron Perlman , Thomas Kretschmann , Luke Goss, Matt Schulz . Blade III by Guillermo Del Toro with Jessica Biel , Ryan Reynolds , Parker Posey, Dominick Purcell, among others .
Moving vampire film packing a great number of surprises , thrills , chills , cutting-edge terror, gloatingly sadistic fights with visceral violence and lots of blood and gore . This time the eerie enemy results to be a mestizo, hybrid vampire who kills human people and other bloodsuckers by getting his purport at whatever cost , to create a new kind of vampire . This messily choreographed film is acceptable and tense but is spoiled by a flashy, weak script. It is just another bloodsucker movie wrapping with breathtaking and violent fights , eye-catching visuals and atmospheric sinister scenarios. The picture is really influenced by various genres , music and comic-books , this eclectic influence includes Rap , Marvel , Hong Kong martial arts , Japanese Samurai, Video games, but stripped down to such basics as dialogue and script . Wesley Snipes is nice as tough , two-fisted as well as complex , ambiguous hero who wages war against vampires vulnerable to garlic and silver. He is well accompanied by a fine support cast , such as N'Bushe Wright, Donald Logue , Arly Jover , Sanaa Lathan , Tim Guinee, Traci Lords and Udo Kier. The motion picture was professionally directed by Stephen Norrington .
This trilogy about Blade , scourge if the bloodsuckers , being based on Marvel Comic group comic-books and formed by the following ones : Blade 1998 . Blade II 2002 by Guillermo del Toro with Leonor Varela, Ron Perlman , Thomas Kretschmann , Luke Goss, Matt Schulz . Blade III by Guillermo Del Toro with Jessica Biel , Ryan Reynolds , Parker Posey, Dominick Purcell, among others .
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- Also known as
- Blade, the Vampire Slayer
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Box office
- Budget
- $45,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $70,087,718
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $17,073,856
- Aug 23, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $131,211,411
- Runtime2 hours
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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