Blade the movie

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Blade 1 movie

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Blade is a 1998 American vampire superhero film starring Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff, loosely based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name.[4] Snipes plays Blade, a human with vampire traits who protects humans from vampires. The film was directed by Stephen Norrington and written by David S. Goyer.

Released on August 21, 1998, Blade became a commercial success by grossing $70 million at the U.S. box office, and $131.2 million worldwide. Despite mixed reviews from film critics, the film received a positive reception from audiences and has since garnered a cult following. It was followed by two sequels, Blade II and Blade: Trinity, both written by Goyer who also directed the latter.

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In 1967, a pregnant woman is attacked by an unknown creature. She is taken to a hospital where she dies, but her child lives.

Three decades later, a woman leads a young man to a rave club filled with vampires who prepare to feast on the man. Vampire-hunter Eric "Blade" Brooks enters the club and begins killing the vampires. He sets the last vampire, Quinn, on fire and leaves before the police arrive. In the hospital, Quinn awakens, kills an examiner and bites hematologist Karen Jenson. When Blade intervenes, Quinn escapes. Blade brings Karen back to his safe house, where Abraham Whistler, his mentor and weaponsmith, injects her with garlic extract to suppress her transformation. Whistler informs Karen of the vampires' existence and weaknesses against silver, garlic and ultraviolet rays, as well as the silent war they have been fighting. He and Blade advise her to leave town, as the vampires will hunt her down.

Meanwhile, vampire elders criticize Deacon Frost, a younger vampire, for drawing attention to their kind. The elders insist on subtly ruling humans to avoid an all-out war. Frost, however, believes that vampires should openly enslave humanity. Because he was not born a vampire, Frost's opinions are dismissed by the elders. Frost and his minions kidnap and kill the chief vampire of the region and imprison the other elders.

Blade drops Karen off at her apartment. Inside, a police officer named Krieger attacks her and Blade subdues him. Krieger is a "familiar" - a human who serves vampires in hope of being turned into one. Using Krieger, Blade and Karen locate a vampire archive. They interrogate the record keeper and learn of a prophecy concerning La Magra, the Blood God. They run into several vampires who overwhelm Blade, but Whistler bursts in, having followed them the entire time. The trio retreat to a subway tunnel and escapes on a train. Blade injects himself with a serum, and Whistler explains his condition to Karen that Blade's mother, Vanessa, had been bitten while pregnant. Blade was born a half-vampire hybrid and possesses all of the vampires' strengths but none of their weaknesses. However, Blade suffers from a constant thirst for blood, which he suppresses by taking the serum, however, it is becoming less and less effective.

Back at the safehouse, Karen resolves to find a cure for vampirism. In the process, she discovers that anticoagulant EDTA reacts explosively with vampire blood. When Blade leaves to acquire his serum, Frost unexpectedly confronts him on the street. He tempts Blade to join him, and retreats when Blade refuses. Blade then fires shot at him when he threw a little girl as she landed in front of a bus, but Blade was there in time to save her. Karen figures out a cure for "turned" vampires, including herself. However, the cure does not work on Blade. When Blade returns, he finds the safehouse invaded, Karen kidnapped and Whistler infected. Blade gives Whistler a gun to commit suicide, arms himself with weapons - including the newly made EDTA syringes - and leaves.

At Frost's penthouse, Blade is shocked to meet Vanessa, who is now Frost's lover. She reveals Frost caused Blade's conditions. Frost's guards capture Blade, then take him and Karen to the Temple of Eternal Night. At the temple, Frost has Blade's blood drained. Karen is thrown into a pit, where she is attacked by a bitten colleague, who failed to become a vampire but is stuck in a zombie-like state. Karen escapes the pit and feeds Blade her blood, restoring his strength. Frost sacrifices the elder vampires in a ritual, absorbing their souls along with Blade's blood, and becomes imbued with their powers. Blade cuts through Frost's minions, including his mother and Quinn, while Karen sprays Mercury with garlic. Blade confronts Frost, whose new powers make him immune to Blade's weapons. Blade injects Frost with multiple EDTA syringes, killing him.

As the two leave the temple, Karen offers to find a cure for Blade. He turns her down, and asks her to improve the serum instead. In the epilogue, Blade stops a vampire attack in Russia.

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Wesley Snipes as Eric Brooks / Blade: a half-vampire "daywalker" who hunts vampires and possesses superhuman reflexes and powers as a result of his mother being bitten by a vampire.
N'Bushe Wright as Dr. Karen Jenson: a hematologist who is bitten by the vampire Quinn. She fights vampires alongside Blade while she finds a cure for herself.
Stephen Dorff as Deacon Frost: an upstart vampire leader who emerges as Blade's primary enemy and who wants to conquer the human race by becoming the supreme blood god "La Magra".
Kris Kristofferson as Abraham Whistler: Blade's mentor, weaponsmith, and surrogate father figure.
Donal Logue as Quinn, a cocky lead minion of Frost's.
Udo Kier as Gitano Dragonetti, the head of the House of Erebus.
Sanaa Lathan as Vanessa Brooks, Blade's mother, believed dead, who became a vampire and lover to Frost.
Arly Jover as Mercury, Frost's second lover and second in command.
Kevin Patrick Walls as Officer Krieger, a "familiar", or human servant, of Frost's.
Tim Guinee as Dr. Curtis Webb, Karen's ex-boyfriend who later becomes a decomposing zombie.
Traci Lords as Racquel, a seductive vampire who leads a man to the blood rave.
Eric Edwards as Pearl, the obese records keeper.