We're kicking off Spooktober - our first scary movie is Blade (1998). There are two sequels and a remake coming, so we expect to get a lot out of this.
It starts with a sexy girl taking a punky guy to a secret dance club, accessed through an abattoir. It's dark, the music is techno, the dancers are sexy, and the guy is a bit lost, but into it. Then blood starts raining from the ceiling, and the dancers grow fangs, and start chewing on his throat. Then appears a dark form in a badass longcoat, leather and armor, sunglasses and a flat-top fade: Wesley Snipes as Blade.
After Blade wipes out most of the vamps, the police come and take one of the survivors, Donal Logue, to the hospital. He recovers and starts to suck the blood from a hemotologist, N'Bushe Wright, but Blade shows up again and scares him off. He takes Wright back to his hideout, where him and his partner, Kris Kristofferson fight vampires.
Kristofferson is a human, but it turns out that Snipes is a "daywalker", a half-vampire that can withstand sunlight, garlic, etc, but still has the urge to drink blood. He has a serum to suppress it, but it's not working so well. Maybe a hematologist could help?
On the dark side, we find that Logue works for Stephen Dorff, a young vampire who has aspirations to rule the vampire and human worlds. The key is Blade's daywalker blood.
I'll skip over the plot, which is a little too much for the movie, I think. What we came for was hot techno music, cool martial arts and Wesley Snipes being badass. Although this was a re-watch, I had forgotten Kristofferson being a lovely old curmudgeon. He gets bitten and turned so he has to kill himself. I'd also forgotten Donal Logue (Gotham), who acts as Dorff's sidekick - a goofy Lebowski-esque stoner vampire, who keeps getting his hand cut off. Se we were satisfied.
My biggest complaint is with the iconic line "Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill." What the hell does that even mean?
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