Wednesday, Jun. 30, 2010
Blade
Wesley Snipes is one cool vampire. As the title character of the Blade film trilogy — based on the Marvel comic series — the half-vampire/half-human superhero travels the world seeking revenge on "pure blood" vampires because one of them killed his mother. Over three films (the second of which was brilliantly directed by Pan's Labyrinth's Guillermo del Toro), Blade fights everyone from the man who assaulted his mother to Dracula himself. Blade Trinity even has a ridiculously vamped-up Parker Posey with fangs too big for her mouth. In each of the series' entries, Snipes fully inhabits the ass-kicking, sword-swinging, black-leather-jacket-wearing vampire that is as vicious (if not more) than his bloodsucker victims.