This attracts a horde which kills Chupa and Whistler escapes.Īsad and Nyssa are ambushed and Asad is killed. Chupa attacks Whistler as penance for Priest’s death, but he secretly releases a cartridge of Reaper pheromones into the air. Verlaine sacrifices herself to kill Lighthammer by exposing them both to sunlight. Lighthammer transforms into a Reaper and kills Snowman. Realizing UV light is their only weakness, Scud and Whistler make UV weapons for the team, as well as a UV-emitting bomb strong enough to take out the entire nest.Įntering the Reaper nest, the team spreads out. Nyssa dissects a dead Reaper and learns their hearts are encased in durable bone. Blade fights Nomak, who is immune to Blade's weapons.Īs the sun rises, Nomak retreats and Whistler returns, revealing he has found the Reaper nest in the sewer. Whistler disappears and Scud is attacked by several Reapers, which he drives off with UV lights. Priest is bitten and mercy-killed, and Lighthammer is bitten but conceals the bite. He tries to recruit Blade to his cause, citing their mutual hatred of vampires. The Reaper leader, Jared Nomak, arrives and holds Nyssa hostage. They investigate a vampire nightclub where they encounter the Reapers and discover they are immune to most vampire weaknesses. Reinhardt hates Blade, and challenges him to fight, but in response Blade implants an explosive on his head to keep him in line. The pack consists of Asad, Nyssa, Reinhardt, Chupa, Snowman, Priest, Verlaine, and her lover Lighthammer. He teams up with the Bloodpack, an elite group of vampires originally assembled to kill him.
In order to combat the Reapers, vampire overlord Eli Damaskinos sends his minion, Asad, and daughter Nyssa to strike a truce with Blade, who reluctantly allies with the vampires. Whistler meets Scud, Blade's young new technician and marijuana smoker who likes rap music.Ī pandemic is turning vampires into "Reapers", primal, mutant creatures with a ravenous thirst for blood and a highly infectious bite that transforms both human and vampire alike. Blade rescues Whistler (though one of his captors, Rush, escapes) and cures him. The film was followed by Blade: Trinity (2004).īlade searches Prague for his mentor Abraham Whistler, who was thought dead after being attacked by Deacon Frost, but was instead turned into a vampire and held prisoner for two years. It received mixed reviews from critics, earning praise for its performances, atmosphere, direction, and action sequences, although its script and lack of character development have been criticized. Blade and his human allies are coerced into joining forces with a special elite group of vampires.īlade II was released in the United States on March 22, 2002, and was a box office success, grossing over $155 million. The plot follows the human-vampire hybrid Blade in his continuing effort to protect humans from vampires, finding himself in a fierce battle against a group of mutant vampires who seek to commit global genocide of both vampire and human races. The film is the sequel to Blade (1998) and the second installment in the Blade trilogy.
Goyer, based on the Marvel Comics superhero Blade created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan. Blade II is a 2002 American superhero film directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by David S.
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