Blade overview
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 2
Synopsis:
British director Stephen Norrington helmed this David S. Goyer adaptation of the Marvel Comics character created in 1973 by scripter Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan. In the Tomb of Dracula comic book origin, just before Blade's mother gave birth to Blade, she was bitten by a vampire, which made Blade immune to vampires. Now a vampire hunter, Blade, joined by vampire detective Hannibal King and Dracula-descendent Frank Drake, stalks vampires. In the 1990s (in Marvel's Nightstalkers), Blade teamed with Drake and King in an agency created to fight a variety of supernatural beings.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Steve Norrington
- Studio: Imaginary Forces, Amen Ra Films, New Line Cinema
- Year: 1998
- Run Time: 121 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R (for strong, pervasive vampire violence and gore, language, and brief sexuality)
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Action, Fantasy
- Filmed in: Color
