The Evil Never Dies Podcast
S4 Ep289: Blade (1998) Review
This week Brett and Carl review Blade from 1998 starring Wesley Snipes! #blade #marvelcomics #vampires #vampirekiller #wesleysnipes #stephendorff #kriskristofferson #horrormovies #horrormoviepodcast #stayevil Come see us Saturday 9/21/24 at the Spooky Spectacle in Grandbury Tx ! https://www.spookyspectacle.com/ Intro and outro music by: Omni Slim @omnislim5381 on YouTube
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- 16 Sep 2024
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This is the Evil Never Dies podcast with Bretton Carl. This podcast may contain adult themes, violence and strong language. Listener discretion is advised. [Music] Welcome back to the Evil Never Dies podcast episode 289. Midweek will be 280. Wow. Yeah, it's moving on alone. Yeah. What's up Carl? Nah, just blood feeling today. Blah. I haven't felt very good all weekend. Yeah, so. Did get a um, haunted object when I look at this thing. What the fuck is that? It's haunted. It's haunted. Yeah. Where the hell did you get that at? It's a secret. It's a secret. But he's haunted. That's crazy looking man. He's gonna go in the museum. Cool. Yep. Oh, I got me. Tracy got me a present. Can you see it on my mic stand here? Yeah, I see him. That was my present for going and putting up all her lights yesterday. Yeah, I feel like a complete loser. I never went in the haunted house this weekend. I just didn't have the desire and it very humid and hot outside. I think it would have just been bad. Yeah. It's supposed to cool down starting Monday, so. Yeah, that's good. Like we were talking earlier, I'm gonna go out there after work a couple nights a week and try to get some pedally shit done. Yeah. Go from there. That's all we can do, man. I think Miss Scarlett's gonna start wanting to paint next week. All right. That means a lot of painting done at museum rooms, the one that needs the majority of the painting done. Yeah. The vampire just went off. Oh, yeah. I was wondering what that look was for. Yeah, that spooked me because he went off. Oh, shit. He's hooked to the Robert's light. So, okay. I'm gonna hook him up to the Sammy light. It'd be better in the end. Yeah. Now let's get the movement on this thing. All right. This week we're doing blade from 1998. Yes, we are. And I'm story to tell. So I could have swore I bought this thing on a 4K disc. I could not find it anywhere. I looked through the movies 50 times. So finally found the three pack that had all three blade movies. That vampire went off again. The counts mad back here because I could not find my 4K copy of blade. Oh no. Well, apparently I must have bought it off a voodoo and not bought the actual disc because it is 4K on my my voodoo account in Apple. So I got to watch it in 4K, but I don't have the disc apparently because I don't know where it possibly could be. So I'm gonna assume it was bought on voodoo. Well, I bought the Blu-ray for it. They had it on. It's a pretty pack. It's got the the mood, you know, all the all three of the movies in it. Oh, okay. And I watched it on actually on Apple and 4K and it looked really good. So maybe I need to actually buy the 4K. I don't know. I thought I had I could have swore had it in underworld sitting together under the TV, but blade was not there. So maybe the count back here got mad and made blade disappear. I posted some good stuff for him on the social media as yesterday. Yeah, seeing that. I need to start. When you send that to me, I need to start downloading it and putting it up like on the tick tock and the yeah, the other accounts. Yeah. So yeah, I finally remembered that I'd fix the flyer like two weeks ago and put that on everywhere or two. Yeah, I saved that. Yeah, I'm gonna start posting the shit out of it. So I need to print like 1000 of them, I guess. We'll be right spooky spectacular next week. Yeah, I forgot about that. We're gonna be at the spooky spectacular and spectacles, spectacles, spooky spectacle, spectacular, I think, spectacle. Well, it should be called spectacular. So I'm renaming it. But yeah, we got invited down there to come check it out when we're at Texas Honors convention. So next Saturday, we will be down there checking that out. So if you're in post some more about it before Saturday, if you're in the if you're in the area come down to Grand Prairie, Texas, it's not in Grand Prairie. It's in Grand Burry. I'm sorry. Burry, berry. Grand berry, berry, berry. I don't know. We don't know where the hell's going on. So we're doing blade. All right. Directed by Stephen Norrington. And this was he really hasn't directed much. He was more a special effects guy. What was a special effects movie? So it sort of makes sense. He worked with Dick Smith and Rick Baker and Stan Winston and all them guys. So yeah, starting out written by David S. Goyer based on blade character by Marv Wolfman and Jean Colin. And he first appeared in you know which comic book he appeared in tomorrow. I did not even know blade was a comic book character for several years because either did I I'm you know, I'm not a comic book person. I'm a comic book movie person, but I knew more I don't know shit about Marvel until you know, all the Marvel movies start. I knew more about DC. So no, I do not know, but I'm just going to say Spider-Man. Nope. The Tomb of Dracula was a comic book in the 70s. That was a Marvel comic. Yeah. Marvel did some weird stuff in those days and his character appeared in 1973. Yeah, I had no idea that blade was a comic book character until shit years later. Yeah, same here. Same here. All right. It was produced by Peter Frankfurt, Wesley Snipes and Robert Engelman cinematography by Theo van de Sande, edited by Paul Rubell, music by Mark Isham. And probably that is the only thing I got that I don't like about this movie is the score on this. It was the beginning where they had the the whatever going on the rave going on. I thought that to me, I always think of that one. I think a blade really. So I guess you're probably right. Yeah. So yeah, not a big fan of the music will the music was sort of like that throughout the whole thing, you know? Yeah, it was. I guess that's why I think of that. I don't know. Production company is New Line Cinema, Marvel Enterprises, men, raw films. I think that's Wesley Snipes's production company and imaginary forces. And it was distributed by New Line Cinema released on August 21st, 1998 as a running time of 120 minutes. Country of origin United States English language budget was 45 million. And it brought in a 131.2 million at the box office. Enough to make two sequels. Yeah. Sort of curious to see what the sequels made, but probably not as much. Now. Alright, Carl, let's go over the plot here. Now, instead of going by, I'm gonna kind of change it up. I'll just sort of talk about what blade is and how he became. So his mother was pregnant and bitten by a vampire. So he was born with, he was not born a vampire. He was born what we call a day walker, where he can, he has all the powers of a vampire, but none of their weaknesses. The only weakness is he still has to feed. So his buddy named Whistler makes all these special weapons for him. And he goes the war with the vampires because he's mad because they killed his mother. So the beginning of the movie, they're at a rave like we mentioned with all the music playing and there's vampires everywhere and blade shows up and he goes on a killing spree. He's cutting vampires heads off. He's blowing them up. Just absolute madness. It's really cool because they use, they use, he uses bullets with silver nitrate and garlic infused in like some UA ultraviolet different things. So that's where blade and underworld sort of merge a little bit. They, they kind of both have them same. They, they go to war with each other using the actual weaknesses of the vampire or a werewolf in underworld. And he also has a sword that he loves to cut heads off with. And he's got a few grenades. So this is the pretty much the premise of blade is he's he's the daywalker and he's a war with the vampires. And there's a lady that's actually like a blood pathologist who gets bit and blade decides he's going to save her. So takes her to their little hideout and they treat her and sort of cure of the not really cure, but she yeah, keeper from learning. And she starts doing some experiments and that's sort of the punch and overview of blade without giving anything away. The daywalker is a cool concept. I've always lacked. And I think I told you whenever I was starting to make the count karabi character a little more flesh, which originally was a D&D character, blade became kind of a inspiration because the count karabi character is not really a full vampire. He's also a half vampire who hates vampires. So I took a lot of inspiration from the blade character with the count karabi character. So that's my overview of blade. You got anything to add feel free. I just didn't want to give it there. There's so much going on this movie. You can't really give a play about play. It's pretty much action nonstop. Exactly, exactly. Let's go over the cast then. First off, we got Wesley Snipes as Eric Brooks slash blade. He's the what you just talked about the daywalker. I guess day walkers are called damn peers. What traditionally a daywalker or a half vampire actually is called, but they don't really call him that in the movie. But blades a little different. He's sort of, you know, he was born different. So I don't really consider him a damn peer myself. He's sort of his own unique character. All right. Next, we got Stephen Dorff as Deacon Frost. He's like the villain of this. Then a world where all the vampires are bad. He's the worst. Yeah. Next off, we got Chris Kristofferson as Abraham Whistler, blades mentor, father figure and weaponsmith. He's the weaponsmith. I remember my friend, bud, said, dude, there's this movie coming out and you're going to love it because this guy says, I make the weapons and the vampire guys as an I use them. So that was my first remembrance of Chris Kristofferson being Whistler. And it's such a great job as it too. He does. All right. Next, we got in Bush a right as Dr. Karen Jensen. She's actually a hematologist. So she's looking for that a blood pathologist. So I don't think there's much difference in those. Next, we got Donald Loag as Quinn. And he's like Frost made many and I guess you would say. And he can survive shit. Most other vampires can't like he can get. Yeah, he's had all kinds of stuff happened to him. Yeah, he did a good character is that too. So sort of almost humorous. If there was any humor in this movie, he would be at next, we got Udo Keir as Jitano Dragon Eddie. He plays a vampire elder. And he was also a vampire and one of your favorite other favorite vampire movies. Carl. Yep. He did it. He played another vampire in something else. I forget what it was. So we next talk about that other movie. Next up, we got Arley Jover as Mercury. She's like another one of Frost minions and lovers or whatever. Next up, we got Tracy Lords as Raquel. Seductive vampire who led the guy at the beginning of the movie into the blood rave. Blood rave. That's what that was called. And she was looking good in that too. Kevin Patrick Walls is Officer Krieger. He played the vampires familiar. I guess is what you'd call it, wouldn't you? There's different names for that. A lot of times they're called ghouls. Sometimes they're called vampire spawn. It all serves the same purpose. Next up, we got 10 Guinea as Dr. Curtis Webb. That was the Karen's ex-boyfriend. He got ate up and it was weird though because he sort of like turned into, he didn't really turn into a vampire. He turned like into a zombie like sort of thing really. Sort of sort of different. Santa Lathan is Vanessa Brooks, blade's mother who has become a vampire even though he thought she was dead. I guess she was dead because vampires are technically dead. And last but not least, we got Eric Edwards as Pearl. A morbidly obese vampire. Yeah, I didn't care for that part. I thought it was comedic really. I guess it was comic bookies since I didn't even know this was a comic book until years later. But it makes more sense now than it did when I first saw the movie. Somebody had made a prop sort of similar to that and that was at Transworld a long time ago and where it took up the whole bed and it burped and farted and shit like that. Yeah. It seemed like it was a rip off a job of the hunt to me almost. A little bit, yeah maybe. And that is the cast for blade. You got any info on the production at all? Not really. Well I guess we'll go straight into the, well let's do awards. We nominated and won a bunch of awards so we'll go over them. One best horror film at the Academy of Science, Fiction, Fantasy and Horror for the Saturn Award and it was also nominated for Best Makeup for Greg Cannon and Michael Jermaine for the Saturn Award. Blockbuster won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award, Wesley Snipes for Best Actor in a horror film. Favorite villain it was won by Stephen Dorf and nominated for Best Supporting Actor Chris Kristoperson for the horror category. Oh let's see one best villain Stephen Dorf for the MTV Movie Awards and Wesley Snipes was nominated for Best Fight Scene when he was fighting all the vampires. Yeah that was a good fight scene. I don't know why he didn't win it. I forget what won against it. Let's see here. Fangoria is nominated for Best Actor, one best supporting actor for Uto Keir and nominated for Best Makeup creature effects Greg Cannon and that's all the awards for blade. What do you want to do next? Trivia you got anything to go over about the DVD or any of that or the Blu-ray or anything. All I got is the the cheap New Line Cinema which they love releasing that's got all three movies in it and there's nothing really. Let's wait mind just the plain Jane DVD. There's nothing special to it. There ain't even an insert inside of it so. Yeah like I said I really thought I had bought that damn 4k but apparently I did not. I had bought the on Voodoo so there's nothing to it. I don't have any any way of reviewing it because the three packs not very good. Is it three separate desk? Is it all on one desk? One desk. The vampire went off again. All right I guess we'll jump into trivia here. Yeah I have no report on the 4k because I cannot find it or I don't own it. I go buy it next chance I get. All right I feel unprepared here but the I mean the the three pack of the movies is just plain Jane. Luckily Apple actually had some of the behind-the-scenes or special features but they were all real boring. Really? They were nothing to add. Who was the director? No. So Newline did a terrible job as they usually do with their releases. So yeah we're going to give the DVD Blu-ray an incomplete. It gets an old rating. I wonder if the 4k has got anything with it. I don't know I need to look into that because I swear to freaking God that I bought that damn thing. I could have swore it was sitting with underworld. I looked everywhere. That thing is not in this house so I think old Count Orlock back here must have ate it. He must be haunted. He keeps going off for no reason and throwing me off. That's why every time I get weird I'm like why is that thing talking? It's supposed to be motion censored. Do you think the Count Orlock is haunted? Maybe it's that damn haunted-ass thing you fucking brought home. What this guy? Yeah Lisa said that um Shatterbox was going off for no reason yesterday too when nobody was here. Yeah I think you need to get the fuck rid of that thing. No. I'm gonna bring him out in the haunted house when you're working out there. Oh no no. You'll get the negative energy out there. There will definitely be blood then. Yeah I'm gonna hang him up so when you work you're gonna have to. You're not going to know where I've got him. You're gonna hide him from me huh? So I think he's making the count go off behind me. I don't know what that guy's name is. I've been calling him Count Orlock with lack of better name. All right when David S. Goyer first pitched the idea doing the blade movie the executives of New Line felt that there were only three actors who could possibly do the role. Wesley Snipes Denzel Washington and Lawrence Fishburne. Disagree with all of them. Wesley Snipes is made for the role and if any of the other two had been in it it would not have been as good. Well that's exactly what Goyer said so yeah there you go. And Wesley Snipes is a background with like some martial arts and stuff too so. All right uh Goyer explaining the commentary on the DVD that the scene where Karen touches blade sword was originally longer as she went on to discover a weird hybrid infant of some kind floating in a tank. It came with a jump scare and Goyer says I think it would have scared the living shit out of the audience but New Line felt it was too horrible. So there might have been a baby dead baby floating in a tank. I think it was. Was it? I think so. All right. Chris Grasovson's character Whistler was created for Blade's cameo on Spider-Man the animated series in 1994. He was like the Spider-Man was involved. I wasn't too far off. He was like so much by Marvel CEO that he was adopted into the Marvel Universe. No really so he was not originally in the Marvel Universe. Nope. Okay well that makes sense why he was in the Dracula comic book in. Yep. I don't know. I don't keep up with comic books just the superhero movies. Wesley Stipes was interested in doing a movie adaptation of the Black Panther comics when he was offered this project. He said that he was unfamiliar with Blade's comics seeing more of a connection with the black splay back black splaytation heroes of the 70s. I just approached him as a really cool character where I'd get to do martial arts and wear a leather suit. And he did. Yep. Deleted conversation from the script explained how Blade's sword originally belonged to Whistler who himself was part of a longtime long line of vampire hunters. Quinn originally had a much smaller role but Donald Loag was so funny on set that his character expanded and he was allowed to ad lib a good portion of his dialogue. Yep. I've always liked that guy. He always does a good job in everything he does. So true true. At around an hour and 45 minutes while discussing the character of Deacon Frost Wesley Stipes described him as a kind of guy who'd skate ice skate uphill Stephen Norrington and David S. Goyer loved the phrase so much they worked it into the film. And around 28 minutes when Karen first meets Whistler Blade can be seen holding a map of New Orleans. This is not not only implies the city they're in but it is homage to the comic books many stories in the Blade series occur in New Orleans. They didn't look like they were New Orleans to me. Didn't to me either look more like they were like in Los Angeles. That's what I thought. Yeah. Yeah. Karen was originally going to be played by a white actress but Wesley Stipes encouraged them to cast a black actress. Man good for him. I think it fit the character better. Yep. Jet Lee was offered the part of Deacon Frost but opted to do lethal weapon for instead. Thank God. The cast was great in this movie. Yeah I know. Everybody was fit the role perfect. Especially Chris Kristofferson like you mentioned earlier. Stanley originally had a cameo that was ultimately cut from film. He played one of the cops that came into the blood club during the aftermath and discovered Quinn's body on fire. Well that's disappointing they should have kept that in. Yeah no shit. Very disappointed in that. Did not know that either. Seeing where Karen and Deacon are talking about the cure for vampirism initially ran a bit longer and answered the question of how vampires would feed if everybody was turned into a vampire. They would keep some humans alive and in giant blood bags to harvest them. The bags can still be seen in a can still be seen in a doorway during the scene and later played an integral part in the plot in Blade Trinity from 2000. I was going to say I thought that was in a Blade movie so yeah. It was also the underlying plot structure for the movie Daybreakers in 2009. That's a terrible movie is it? Yeah. And the scene where Blade is chased into the subway and the subway train is passing by. All the passengers are cardboard cutouts with the special effects man among them. Will they hold them all up against the fucking windows? No idea. I guess you can't really tell when the train's going by. So. And plus there ain't a there ain't no subway in New Orleans. No there's not. There's a subway in New Orleans that would be flooded. I think that was just a like you said for like a nod to the comics that he yeah of the stories because when you have vampire stories New Orleans always is going to be a good key you know because places haunted probably. I wonder if this thing came from New Orleans. I don't know man. You don't like this thing. I don't. I don't. Why he filled the energy over the internet? Put it the fuck away. It's put away. In the original Marvel comic storyline the character blade was English not American. Oh the success of this film especially since it followed and the derided Batman and Robin 1997 dolphins considered the beginning of the rise of the superhero genre to become Donovan in mainstream film. Yeah there's a lot of people just like you said because they call this an action movie more or less and I considered it always considered a horror movie. Yeah I did too. I was talking to my daughter yesterday she's like blades not even a horror movie and I'm like yeah it is. Whatever. It is a horror movie it's got vampires and people getting their heads cut off and yeah so yeah yeah it's a vampire maybe we'll just call it a vampire movie but it's definitely in the horror genre so anybody didn't think it is they must be a reader of Marvel comics which like I said I don't even think a blade is a comic book character and if he were to ever show up in a comic book movie I would be like why is blade in this I'm not giving any spoilers away I'm just saying like why is blade in this so yeah. Blade's car is a 1968 Dodge Charger with various modifications. Yeah he's got a badass car. Deacon Frost is reimagined as more Generation X type of character. His comic book counterpart was an older German accented white haired gentleman that hailed from 1868. The count of the sounds boring. Blade himself is also younger having been born in 1967 instead of 1929 as in the comic book. Yeah Pearl was so large. Come on Carl how large was she larger than the job of the hood. That was a she? Yeah Pearl I think I never knew that. Well you know now well I wish I had to be built around it. That was that was the worst part of the movie. It was about 700 pounds of latex skin that had to be moved with a forklift. Oh I bet that would have been fun. When I was watching that yesterday I'm like I forgot all about this dumb part. Michael Morbius was to be used as the main antagonist in Blade 2 2002 but the idea was dropped when Marvel sold the character's rights to art as an entertainment to produce a standalone Morbius film. The vampire on the rooftop and the alternate ending is Morbius played by director Stephen Norrington. Morbius eventually made this live his live action debut in the film Morbius 2022. I played by Jared Leto. Yeah Jared Leto is Morbius. I don't think he would like the movie. I probably wouldn't. It's more comic book even than it really isn't a horror movie so. In updating the vampire lore Stephen Norrington and David S. Goyer decided that crosses wouldn't work against vampires citing what if a vampire was Jewish. Why would a cross work on him? I agree. I always thought that and yeah. I agree with him. So it was just silver and garlic and light in this one. Well a lot of people have made it to where any holy symbol that you believe in would work on a vampire so I don't know. So probably the star of David might work on one. I don't know. They've started they've tried to change the lore around over the years. Blade did a good job. I don't think it should be that so. Stephen Norrington. Stephen Norrington stated that the cause of Pearl's obese size was the creature gaining a cannibalistic lust for infants and children as he loves to eat their hearts. No that was never implied in the movie so. That was probably a made-up thing anyway. I don't think that was in the comic book even. I don't know. This Pearl's gonna give this movie about a minus a half a star just in just on that. I know right. Oh let's see Wesley Stipes was a big fan of the Hong Kong martial arts films and one of the film to have that kind of action which it did. It did. A lot of crazy moves and stuff so. The high jumping and flipping flipperunies and sort of like the Dracula meets the seven brothers hammer film. Okay it's the Kung food Dracula without Christopher Lee. Oh. A great many handheld shots were accomplished with a special animal anamorphic lens camera that also had a single unit sound. It's one of it only one of its kind in the world. Wow that's sort of neat. That is. Let's see here Stephen Dorff wasn't a fan of wasn't a fan of commercial movies in particular comic book movies but Stephen Norrington convinced him to take the role of Deacon Frost and I really don't think anybody else could have played that part like he did. He did it really well. He did great. Blade sunglasses are black flies. The model is called micro fly in matte black. David Gloria and director Stephen Norrington wanted to make it clear from the opening scenes that this wasn't going to be a particularly gothic vampire tale. No it is not. It's very modern. Well modern for the 90s I guess. Yep. Let's see here what else we got. Blade let's see the British dance group the Prodigy were approached to do the score and soundtrack for the film but they turned it down due to other work commitments. Do you like Prodigy? The Prodigy. Don't dislike them. I don't like them. They're just I don't have an opinion. I'm just not a big fan of like the techno music at all. Yeah I don't mind it. I shouldn't say I'm not. I'm not a fan or I'm I don't hate him. I just sort of neutral. In the film Whistler can read the ancient vampire language. We see this when he translates the piece of paper taken by Blade from the archive room. However in the script Whistler cannot understand the language and Blade goes to a voodoo priestess to get a translation. How would a voodoo priestess know the voodoo or the voodoo people know a lot of stuff. It's believable. Steven Norton wanted Chris Kristoffson for the role as he was the cool grandfather grunzy type fighting jelly type guy. David Geyer actually wrote the character though with Samuel Fuller in mind. Whoever that is. I don't even know who the hell that is. Stephen Dorff molded Frost on several other villains especially Jack Nicholson's The Joker and Batman. I can see that. Maybe I don't know. It was Wesley Snipes's idea that the entrance to Pearl's lair back to Pearl be through a walk-in freezer. Oh let's see. Although she's credited as Mercury, Arlie Jover never is called by her name throughout the whole movie. I don't even think she spoke during the whole thing. Actually so oh well. Oh the rest of the stuff we sort of already gone over so that's all I got. How are you gonna rate Blade? You go first. Well always go first. You go first this time. When this first came out I think I forget where I seen it. I think it was on. I didn't see it right when it first came out. But I had all the free pay channels because I did cable and I think it was on HBO or something when I first seen it and opening scene for the rave when they do the rave scene. I was like wow that's like one of the most bloody fucking things that's ever been on film before. There's a lot of blood. But it's not a horror movie they claim. Yeah bullshit. And just people getting their throats ripped out and shit and yeah just and when Blade comes in just all the violence and that made the fucking movie for me just that second scene. So yeah it was a definitely got the movie vibe going. Yeah rest of the movie is okay you know there are some lulls and some stupid shit but like you said the Pearl. That was I think that was put in more or less for the comedic. Maybe a little bit of shock aspect because she was so morbidly obese. Just like a I don't know. But and like I said the soundtrack not a big fan of it the score. So I'll give it a four just for the effects and all that and the acting quality for sure was good. So yeah I'll give it a four. I will concur I give it a four as well. I thought about giving it a 3.9 but I can't do that to Blade because a great movie always like I said it was an influence and creating some of my Halloween haunted house characters. Watching it now it seems a little freaking long. I think they could have cut some of that crap out and it would have been a better movie. Definitely a long two hours. But the acting is good. Wesley Snops own the role and he is the one and only Blade. I don't care if anybody says or whatever happens in the future in the future. Apparently Marvel is going to reboot Blade. So we will see how that happens or if it happens because Marvel keeps canceling movies. So I don't know. Yeah it's literally me a goth's gonna be in it. So well we'll see if it happens. It's been delayed like four or five times. There's not really much I can complain about Blade. Like I said I thought that Pearl was stupid and did not fit the movie. They could have cut that out. It might have sped the movie up enough to where like you said there's a few lulls. It's a lot of action but when there's not action it's very obvious. Love the like the weapons. You know underworld would come out a couple years later and obviously they were influenced by Blade I guess because here's some trivia for you. There was talk of doing a Blade underworld mesh at one point. Hmm I don't know if when Wesley Snops got in trouble with his tax stuff if that might have put a snafu in that or what but it never happened but those worlds seem very connected. So it would have been cool. Yes it would have. Definitely a four. I can't give it any higher. I definitely recommend Blade. If you haven't seen it it's really good vampire movie. It's different. It's not your typical you know like you said it's not a gothic vampire movie. It's very 90s even though it's near the end of the 90s. It's still got that 90s influence which is fine. It fit really good. That soundtrack yeah you're right it was not so great but it didn't bother me. I kind of like the the that techno shit it fit fit that especially the beginning scene so I really have no complaints except for you like you said a few little slow moments and it's a little long and I think I'm going to seek out this 4k copy now and I'll probably find the other one so we'll see what happens. I think I just bought it on voodoo when it came out because that sounds like something I might have done but I could have swore I had Blade and Underworld sitting right together right underneath the TV but I think this thing stole Blade Brett. Put it away. Put that thing away. That's all we got. I don't even want to look at it. I got we got to get moving here dude. Alright check us out come down to the spooky spectacle. It's spectacular. Cranberry Texas. Scarlett was calling it the spook house spectacular. Next Saturday the 21st is the I think it's 21st yeah so come down and see us down there check us out on all the social medias. Check all the haunted house stuff up where we're actively publishing things now for that on the Count Karabi Facebook page. Exactly so. Maybe one of these days we'll get the hunt finished. I don't know. There's not that much to do so I'm not too worried. You think there's a lot more to do than there is. You want to paint everything. They're gonna be a lot of painting I don't think. We'll paint. Well we can get one. We only got one painter and she's eight. Yeah nine. Well all right thanks everybody for watching hit that like and subscribe if you would and turn on those notifications and we'll talk to you Wednesday for the midweek show. Stay evil everybody. This is evil right here vampires they're everywhere. You're one of them aren't you? No I'm something else. That's it. Blade is the key. All our strengths. None of our weaknesses. They're most things out tonight than vampires. Like what? Like me. He makes the weapons. I use it. This will be seasonal cookies. Let's do this. 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