Day 7 of 31 Days of Vampire Movies brings you the one that started it all. No, not vampires.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Sure, some people might try to convince you it all started with Tony Stark, but this movie is where comic book movies became main stream box office successes, and showed studios that comic books weren’t just for nerds.
Yes, I know. It’s a Zorro Pop. I’m doing the best I can here, people.
It’s hard to overstate just how cool Blade was when it first came out. Released a full year before The Matrix made the black trench coat cyberpunk look mainstream, Blade exploded onto the screen in a rave of blood, pounding techno, and exploding vampires. That opening scene showed just what a comic book movie could really do, at a time when they were considered box office trash, and most were just artless IP cash grabs with little to no plot and an inherent silliness that was usually more cringe-worthy than charming. Blade played its concept 100% straight and made vampires a credible threat, and that made Blade the baddest motherfucker in the business.
Also, it had this guy. The only guy who could out-awesome Blade in his own movie.
You could never catch this fucker at a bad time.
Blade is a great time for people who like action movies before they became jumbled CGI monstrosities of pixels smashing into each other. There is CGI, and it is incredibly dated, but the wirework stunts and the commitment of everyone involved to the premise more than makes up for it. Definitely give this one a shot if you haven’t, if only to see where it all began. And to see Kris Kristofferson blasting the shit out of vampires. That is always a good time.