Blade (1998)
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Blade is a 1998 American superhero action horror film directed by Stephen Norrington. Wesley Snipes stars as Blade, a half-human, half-vampire "Daywalker" who possesses all of vampires' strengths and none of their weaknesses, dedicating his life to hunting and destroying the undead. When the ambitious young vampire Deacon Frost, played by Stephen Dorff, plots to summon La Magra, the vampire blood god, and transform all humans into vampires, Blade must stop the ritual with the help of his mentor and weapons maker Abraham Whistler, played by Kris Kristofferson.
Wesley Snipes's Blade was one of the most physically committed action performances of the 1990s — Snipes, a genuine martial artist, performed elaborate sword and hand-to-hand combat with a controlled intensity that made the character genuinely intimidating. The opening blood rave sequence, in which Blade enters a vampire-run nightclub where sprinklers shower the crowd with human blood, was one of the most memorable and inventively horrifying openings in superhero cinema. Blade earned $131 million worldwide on a $45 million budget.
