Wesley Snipes	Blade/Eric Brooks/The Daywalker
Stephen Dorff	Deacon Frost
Kris Kristofferson	Abraham Whistler
Donal Logue	Quinn
N'Bushe Wright	Dr. Karen Jenson
Udo Kier	Vampire Elder Dragonetti
Arly Jover	Mercury
Traci Lords	Racquel
Devon Sawa	Vanessa
Kevin Patrick Walls	Officer Krieger
Tim Guinee	Dr. Curtis Webb
Clint Curtis
Eric Edwards	Pearl
Kenny Johnson
Sanaa Lathan	Vanessa Brooks

Director	Stephen Norrington
Producer	Peter Frankfurt Wesley Snipes Avi Arad Joseph Calamari
Writer	David S. Goyer
Cinematography	Theo van de Sande
Musician	Mark Isham

In "Blade," the first film in an eventual trilogy, the title character played by Wesley Snipes is "daywalker," a half-human, half-vampire who has dedicated his life to the eradication of the vampire race. Blade's mother was bitten by a vampire when she was pregnant--as a result, Blade has all of the typical vampire's extra-human abilities but none of their weaknesses (such as sunlight); however, he also has a vampire's lust for blood, which he controls with the help of his friend and ally, Whistler (Kris Kristofferson). Blade's nemesis in this movie is Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), an upstart, charismatic young (well, relatively speaking) vampire who would rather rule the world than maintain the current uneasy coexistence of vampires and humans. Frost and his minions plan to awaken an ancient vampire god who will eradicate humanity once and for all. Blade, working with Whistler and Karen Jenson must stop this from happening.

Edition Details Audience Rating R (Restricted) Country USA Language English Distributor New Line Home Video Edition Special Edition Barcode 794043470929 Region Region 1 Chapters 38 Release Date 12/22/1998 Packaging Snap Case Screen Ratio Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1) Subtitles English; English (Closed Captioned) Audio Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] Dolby Digital Stereo [English] Dolby Digital Surround [English] Layers Single Side, Single Layer No. of Disks/Tapes 1 Features Featurettes: La Magra, Designing Blade, The Origins of Blade, The Blood Tide Pencil to Post House of Erebus DVD-ROM: Original Screenplay Access to the script Balde highlights Web links

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