Blade confronts Frost after killing all of his minions, including his mother. Frost completes the ritual and obtains the powers of La Magra. Blade is drained of his blood, but Karen allows him to drink from her, enabling him to recover. Karen is thrown into a pit to be devoured by Webb, who has transformed into a decomposing zombie-like creature. Blade is then subdued and taken to the Temple of Eternal Night, where Frost plans to perform the summoning ritual for La Magra. When Blade attempts to rescue Karen from Frost's penthouse, he is shocked to find his still-alive mother, who reveals that she came back the night she was attacked and was brought in by Frost, who appears and reveals himself as the vampire who bit her. When Blade returns, he helps Whistler commit suicide. Frost and his men attack the hideout, infect Whistler, and abduct Karen. Karen is confident that she can cure Blade's bloodthirst but it would take her years of treating it. She manages to synthesize a vaccine that can cure the infected but learns that it will not work on Blade. While experimenting with the anticoagulant EDTA as a possible replacement, Karen discovers that it explodes when combined with vampire blood. Krieger informs Frost of what happened, and Frost kills Krieger. However, the serum is beginning to lose its effectiveness due to overuse. Later, at the hideout, Blade injects himself with a special serum that suppresses his urge to drink blood. He comes upon Pearl, a morbidly obese vampire, and tortures him with a UV light into revealing that Deacon wants to command a ritual where he would use 12 pure-blood vampires to awaken the "blood god" La Magra and Blade's blood is the key.
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Blade subdues Krieger and uses information from him to locate an archive that contains pages from the "vampire bible". Returning to her apartment, Karen is attacked by police officer Krieger, who is a familiar, a human loyal to vampires. In response, Frost has one of the elders executed and strips the others of their authority. As Frost and his kind are not natural-born vampires, they are considered socially inferior.
Meanwhile, at a meeting of the council of pure-blood vampire elders, Frost, the leader of a faction of younger vampires, is rebuked for trying to incite war between vampires and humans.
As Karen is now "marked" by the bite of a vampire, both he and Blade tell her to leave the city. Whistler explains that he and Blade have been waging a secret war against vampires using weapons based on their elemental weaknesses, such as sunlight, silver, and garlic. Blade takes Karen to a safe house where she is treated by his old friend Abraham Whistler. Curtis Webb and feeds on hematologist Karen Jenson, and escapes. Police take one of the vampires to the hospital, where he kills Dr. Blade raids a rave club owned by the vampire Deacon Frost. Thirty years later, the child has become the vampire hunter, Blade, who is a human-vampire hybrid that possesses the supernatural abilities of the vampires without any of their weaknesses, except for the requirement to consume human blood. Doctors are able to save her baby, but the woman dies of an unknown infection. In 1967, a pregnant woman is attacked by a vampire, causing her to go into premature labor. The success of Blade began Marvel's film success and set the stage for further comic book film adaptations. It was followed by two sequels, Blade II and Blade: Trinity, both written by Goyer who also directed the latter.īlade was a dark superhero film for its time. It is also hailed as one of Snipes' signature roles. Despite mixed reviews from film critics, the film received a positive reception from audiences and has since garnered a cult following.
box office, and $131.2 million worldwide. Released on August 21, 1998, Blade was a commercial success, grossing $70 million at the U.S. In the film, Blade is a Dhampir, a human with vampire strengths but not their weaknesses, who together with his mentor Abraham Whistler and hematologist Karen Jenson, fights against vampires, namely the exceptionally vicious Deacon Frost. The film stars Wesley Snipes as the titular character with Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson and N'Bushe Wright in supporting roles. Based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name, it is the first installment of the Blade franchise. Blade is a 1998 American superhero film directed by Stephen Norrington and written by David S.
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