Blade (1998, 2002 & 2004)
Blade
Blade is loosely based on a Marvel comic of the same name surrounding a human-vampire hybrid who has sworn a duty to defend the human race from bloodsucking vampires.
A heavily pregnant woman is treated in a city hospital for what is thought to be an animal bite – they revive her – but she then dies after giving birth to a son. It later unfolds that this was not in fact an animal bite but the bite of a vampire which leads to this boy inheriting “all of their strengths and none of their weaknesses. Except one.” He is given superhuman strength, regenerative healing factors, enhanced vampiric senses and does not suffer vampire’s weaknesses with garlic and sunlight. However, he does suffer from blood lust or The Thirst – as vampires put it. This boy grows up to become one of the most deadly vampire hunters ever to grace the silver screen, Blade.
Blade also boasts one of the greatest opening scenes in vampire slaying history:
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Blade also rolled with some pretty heavy hitters during his time as a vampire slayer. Beginning with one-legged old school slayer Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) in Blade, to the infamous Bloodpack (including Ron Perlman and the Cat off Red Dwarf) – originally trained to track and destroy Blade before being teamed up with him in Blade 2, and finally what ended up being the ruin of the franchise the Nightstalkers (Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel) in Blade: Trinity.
Out of all the cameos throughout the Blade series it really doesn’t get better than Bros’ Luke Goss playing Nomak the illegitimate reaper son of the King Vampire. This emo really does hate his father and the rest of the vampire society – which he expresses with murderous rampages taking vampire slaying to a whole new level – when will he will he be famous?
