HBO Max original movie Blade was released August 21st, 1998.
#Blade has made $418.1M at the international box office.
rottentomatoes: 59%
metacritic: 47
imdb: 7.1
Eric Brooks
Blade is a vigilante vampire hunter in LA, California.
“Quinn… I’m getting a little tired of chopping you up. Thought I might try fire for a change. Give my regards to Frost. Came back to finish you off. Motherfucker, are you out of your damn mind?! Aah! Uhh! Whistler. Whistler.” — Blade
“She’s been bitten. Yeah, I know… but I didn’t. It was Quinn. No. Yeah. Whistler says I’m building up a resistance to the serum. You take care, all right? I doubt it.” — Blade
“Just do it, old man. Ahh. Uhh… well, you already met Mr. Crispy at the hospital. What do you think? It’s still heavy. If you want to live to see another day, you’ll be out of town by nightfall. You’ve been exposed to them. One way or another, somebody’s going to take you out.” — Blade
Whistler
“Bringing home strays now? Should’ve killed her, then. You watch her close. If she starts to turn, you finish her off. Or I will. She’s borderline. Another hour, she’d be well into the change. Dr. Karen Jenson, listen close. I’m going to inject you with Allium Sativum– garlic. This is going to hurt– a lot.”
“Frost’s little errand boy? You get a lead on him? Too bad. Hold her. I give her fifty-fifty if she makes it through the night.”
“I must be getting soft in my old age, letting you bring home a stray like that. It was damn stupid of you. Might’ve lucked out, though. I checked her background. It turns out she’s a hematologist. She might be useful to us. I’m serious. I took a look at that notebook of hers. She’s onto something. I had to increase the dose.”
“It’s over 50 milligrams now. That’s getting dangerous. Wander off the beaten path, doctor? My name’s Abraham Whistler. You’ve met Blade. Not at all. We just had to take certain precautions before we let you go. You got to understand, they’re everywhere. Vampires– the hominus nocturna. We hunt them, you see– moving from one city to the next tracking their migrations. They’re hard to kill. They tend to regenerate.”
“Crosses don’t do squat. Some of the legends are true, though. Vampires are severely allergic to silver. Feed them garlic, and they go into anaphylactic shock. Then, of course, there’s always sunlight, ultraviolet rays. I got this sucker running. You want to give it a try tonight? Well, you’re so big. There’s a war going on out there. Blade, myself, a few others, we’ve tried to keep it from spilling over onto the streets. Sometimes, people like yourself get caught in the crossfire.”
“They own the police. You have to understand, they’re everywhere. Chances are, you’ve seen them yourself and didn’t know it– on the subway or in a bar. Here. Vampire mace– silver nitrate, essence of garlic. You keep your eyes open. Be careful.”
Quinn
“That’s him! That’s him! Get him! Fuck him up! We’re gonna jack you up. Make him hurt bad. Whoo! Yaah! Yaah! Aah! Get out of my way, you freak! Yaah!”
Dr. Karen Jenson
“You took this off a D.O.A.? But this doesn’t make any sense. The red blood cells are biconvex which is impossible. Okay, Curtis, it’s 3:00 in the morning– I thought you promised to give us some distance. Okay. Show me the body. And I don’t want to hear a word about us.”
“You haven’t started on the internal organs yet? The maxilla looks a little deformed. There’s some odd muscle structure around the canines. Sometimes. But then I remember how much of an asshole you were.”
“Look, Curtis– it’s over. Aah! Aah! Aah! Aah! My shoulder– it’s dislocated. Aah! Uhh. Uhh!”
“Who are you people? So, am I a prisoner here? And I’m supposed to believe all this? So, what do you use, then? Stakes? Crosses? So where am I supposed to go? I have blood samples. I can go to the police. So that’s it? You guys just patch me up and send me on my way?”
Hospital
“Police found her in the street. Looks like she was bitten. Some kind of an animal. Jesus! Her water’s broken! She’s going into uterine contractions! We’ll have to do a c-section!”
Vampire Nation
“Blade… the daywalker– still pursuing his ridiculous crusade. How many died? We don’t have an exact count. Apparently, he used a lot of silver. We’re having difficulty– send in Frost. Deacon Frost. You can come in now. You are a disgrace to the vampire nation, Frost. If we break the treaty– — if we gather in numbers — — the human politicians will make our lives very difficult. You would understand this — — if your blood were pure. Don’t we have enough trouble with Blade?”
“These nightclubs of yours are dangerous. They draw needless attention to our kind. You know our policy. Our livelihood… depends on our ability to blend in and our discretion. You’re out of line, Frost. We have existed this way for thousands of years. Who are you to challenge our ways? You’re not even a pureblood. I was born a vampire, as was every other member of this house, but, you, Frost… you were merely turned. Do we have any other business to discuss?”
“Well, uh… there’s the matter of our offshore accounts. We’re having difficulty– and have you made the transfer to the– “
Deacon Frost
“Are they? Your policy, not mine. Maybe it’s time we forgot about discretion. We should be ruling the humans, not running around making back-alley treaties with them. For fuck’s sake, these people are our food, not our allies. Am I? Or maybe I’m just the first to say out loud what we’ve all been thinking. Like it matters.”
“The world belongs to us, not the humans. You know that. Gitano… you may wake up one day and find yourself extinct.”
Los Angeles
“What you got down there, little man? Oh, that’s my heatseeker. I’ll bet it is. Aah! Ha ha ha! So, where are we going? It’s a surprise, baby. Yeah, I like surprises. Yeah. Whoo! Oh, my God! What the fuck are we doing here? Whoo! Look at all that. Ha ha ha! What the fuck is that? Hey! What did you just say?”
“Wow. Whoo! Hey, what’s up? Unh! Man! Whoo! All right. Ha ha ha! Yeah. Whoo! Ha ha ha! What’s happening? Unh! Whoa! Man. Fuck. Fuck. I need a drink. Ahh! No! No! Aah! What’s wrong, baby? Aah! Aah! No! No! Aah! No! Ha ha ha!”
“Is that him? Jesus, that’s him. It’s Blade. It’s the daywalker. Come on, Daywalker! Hey! I’m gonna rip your fucking head off! Unh! Aah! Aah! Yaah! No! Please don’t!”
“Put him out. Yes, sir. Paramedics. Got a charred cadaver here for you. Still warm, too. 1, 2, 3. Oh, Jesus, that’s rank. He was still screaming when they found him… stapled to a wall. That’s very pretty. Did you check the chem count? His blood sugar’s 3 times norm, phosphorus and uric acid are off the charts. Yeah.”
“Look at the polys, they’re binucleated. This is not a joke. I’ve got the body in the morgue right now. I just want you to come down and take a look. Done. We’ve had that conversation. Just a blood sample for the pericardium. I’m going to start the ‘Y’ and check the tracheal mucosa. Let me ask you something. Honestly… you ever have second thoughts about us?”
“Want to cut me some slack here? You asked for some time off, I gave you some time off. I’m trying. Call security! Freeze! Aah! Hey, you! Freeze! Freeze! Hold it right there!”
“You’re a week early. Yeah, I figured that might happen.”
