Director: Ron Hall
Producer: Cine Excel Entertainment / Jet Black Productions
Score: Dave Wallin-Eddy
Writer: Ron Hall
Director of photography: Ed Tillman
Cast:
Summary:
Having witnessed his father's murder as a young child, Derek Washington (Ron Hall), a cop with a vengeance, is afraid of blood. But he must travel to the dark side and become the one thing he hates the most when a botched sting operation leads to the discovery of underworld counterfeiter Gustoff Slovak (Mel Novak), a deadly vampire who leads the undead. With the help of Master Kao (Gerald Okamura), the last in a long line of vampire hunters, Washington begins his training determined to hunt the ultimate killer.
Note:
- The film (directed, written by, and starring martial artist Ron Hall - Bloodsport II, Raw Target ) features a black martial arts vampire hunter that draws obvious comparisons to the Blade films starring Wesley Snipes: they are both vampires themselves, both are trained by a former Vampire hunter, lost a family member early in life, dress the same way, and also use many of the same weapons (including the Glaive). Ironically, Ron Hall played a character named Blade in the 1994 movie Double Blast.
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Our Ranking
short review:
Don't get fooled by the blatant Blade cover rip-off: this is a very very silly movie! I do like B-movies, they often show some nice and fresh ideas, and with a bigger budget, some of them might have been classics.
But in this case here, I often had to laugh out loud (and not because it was intentionally funny). Bad acting, lame fights, pathetic dialogues, botched-up editing, and so on, and so on�The alleged police headquarter looks like a warehouse filled with cardboard boxes, one vampire is
killed with mere bullets, while several of the victims are turned into vampires only by getting shot from other vampires firing guns at them (though this is definitely one of the aforementioned "new ideas", I didn�t like this one). And don't forget the master vampire with his "able-to-fly-on-its-own" and bullet-deflecting cape � ah no, this is no good, no good at all!