Friday Feeling: Blade II and John Carpenter’s Vampires
Friday, May 30th, 2008Fangs four the reminder
Channel 4 are showing their teeth this Saturday, with a pointy pair of modern vampire flicks. First up on the mortician’s slab is comic book sequel Blade II, which bucks the usual superhero movie sequel trend by a) being good and b) not requiring the viewer to have seen the first one.
This 2002 outing was directed by one Guillermo del Toro, who would later find fame as the chap who created the weird and wonderful Pan’s Labyrinth, and visually is darker than the first film, and features a stunning turn by Luke Goss, former frontman for late eighties boy band Bros, as a vampire lord with a double-jointed mandible.
Vampires, or to be pedantic John Carpenter’s Vampires, is an altogether slightly less enjoyable affair, but worthy of checking out because it stars James Freakin’ Woods as a gun totin’ vampire killer for hire.
Also we’ve just discovered that the sequel to this film was made – Vampires : Los Muertos – and it stars none other than Bon Jovi himself as the lead character. Unbelievably, this release went straight to video. Anyone who can find us a copy and send it in wins a prize.
