Throwback Tuesday take us back to the only Blade movie worth a damn, and, not uncoincidentally, the only one of the trilogy directed by Guillermo del Toro. It’s also the only one that finds a way to make vampires, in this case “Reapers,” legitimately creepy. Blade II isn’t a great film by any means, but it is unquestionably the high-water mark of the franchise.
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Spooky Saturday takes us back t0 a movie that even if it contained a commentary track by Carson Daly filmed inside the TRL studio could still not be more 1998. Wesley Snipes stars as the Marvel Comics character who helps out a doctor bitten by a vampire and protects the world from skeezy vampire withe delusions of grandeur (Stephen Dorff) from taking it over. The film is notable for aspects of its style which look to have heavily influenced the first Matrix movie and for making Blade the character look good on film.
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