Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.
- Awards
- 6 wins & 10 nominations
Matt Schulze
- Chupa
- (as Matthew Schulze)
Danny John-Jules
- Asad
- (as Danny John Jules)
Pete Lee-Wilson
- Blood Bank Doctor
- (as Pete Lee Wilson)
- …
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- TriviaOver 30 members of the cast and crew were temporarily blinded by the misuse of UV lights in the vampire autopsy scene.
- GoofsNyssa is a "pure blood" (born a vampire) but she has a scar above her lip and fillings in her teeth. According to the logic of the movie, a pure blood vampire would never scar and, we might infer, would never need dental treatment.
- Crazy creditsNo real reapers were hurt during the making of this film.
- Alternate versionsThe New Line Platinum Series DVD contains several deleted scenes, including: An extended opening scene establishing Prague. A flashback sequence showing Blade's first encounter with Whistler, part of which can be seen in the film's title credits. An extended version of the ninja fight in the warehouse, with Blade using some fencing tactics to keep Asad at bay. A scene of Whistler shying away from the growing daylight outside. An alternate take of Blade's first meeting with Damaskinos, with Damaskinos wearing, according to Guillermo del Toro, a "Michael Bolton wig". A scene in which Damaskinos explains the effects vampirism has had on him. A much longer version of the House of Pain sequence, including a scene with Nyssa finding a room upstairs with a man unpacking human entrails from a box, a scene that was meant for Michael Jackson. A line by Whistler about "the power of the pussy" A Bloodpack "meeting" of sorts, with Chupa attempting to urge the others to kill Blade and go after the Reapers on their own. A scene in a bathroom after the House of Pain sequence of Lighthammer discovering how far his infection with the Reaper strain has gone. An extended scene of Damaskinos' dinner and blood bath, in which he tells of the fate of his human heart. An extended scene of the lawyer's torture of Blade A "dirty" version of the final scene, in which semen is streaked on the windows that was digitally removed in the final cut of the film because test audiences complained.
- ConnectionsEdited from Blade (1998)
- SoundtracksKalinka
Traditional Russian Folk Song
Arranged and Performed by Limpopo (as Crazy Russian Folk 'n' Roll band Limpopo)
Courtesy of Folk 'n' Roll Records
Featured review
Beneath the streets, behind facades, above the law; conglomerations old and new, slash, shear and saw; unseen but all around, vigilant of every sound, taking lives, destroying chances, tooth and claw.
But a new strain has evolved and it bites back, renders vampires into beasts weapons can't crack, an allegiance is convened, to destroy the new obscene, with a violent and quite viscous, counterattack.
One of the more accomplished takes on the vampires taking over the world genre, with one of the more accomplished, and even to this day spectacular incarnations of a vampire slayer there's been.
The blood flows proportionally.
But a new strain has evolved and it bites back, renders vampires into beasts weapons can't crack, an allegiance is convened, to destroy the new obscene, with a violent and quite viscous, counterattack.
One of the more accomplished takes on the vampires taking over the world genre, with one of the more accomplished, and even to this day spectacular incarnations of a vampire slayer there's been.
The blood flows proportionally.
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $54,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $82,348,319
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $32,528,016
- Mar 24, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $155,010,032
- Runtime1 hour 57 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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