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Blade is a 1998 vampire action film starring Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff, loosely based on the...

Blade is a 1998 vampire action film starring Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff, loosely based on the published stories of the fictional Marvel Comics character Blade. It was directed by Stephen Norrington and written by David S. Goyer. Snipes plays the titular character, a vampire hunter who is half-man and half-vampire that becomes the protector of humans against the vampires. Blade grossed $70 million at the U.S. box office, and over $130 million worldwide. This success is often credited with starting the current superhero revival in American cinema. Two sequels, Blade II and Blade: Trinity, were subsequently produced. A man is led to a rave club by a seductive woman named Raquel, only to find that the club is filled with vampires eager to feed on the human members of the crowd. In the middle of the carnage, a vampire-hunter named Blade (Snipes) arrives. Saving the man, Blade slaughters the vampires in the club with only a vampire named Quinn (Donal Logue) momentarily spared but horribly burned. Blade tracks Quinn down to a hospital, but Quinn is able to feed off of Dr. Curtis Webb before biting another resident hematologist, Dr. Karen Jenson (N'Bushe Wright), before escaping once