Winter Sucks 2024: Blade II (2002)
Director: Guillermo del Toro Run Time: 117 min. Release Year: 2002
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Leonor Varela, Norman Reedus, Ron Perlman, Wesley Snipes
Country: United States, Germany
Language: English, Romanian, Czech
Winter Sucks 2024 at Gateway Film Center
A collection of the most blood-thinning vampire films of all time
About the film:
Exploding from the pages of Marvel Comics comes the thrilling follow-up to the blockbuster “Blade.” Half Man, half vampire, and consumed by a desire to avenge the curse of his birth and save the human race from a blood-drenched Armageddon. In this newest action-packed adventure, Blade (Wesley Snipes) is forced to team up with the very vampires he hates in order to overcome a new type of monster which threatens to eradicate both races.
About the filmmaker:
Master storyteller Guillermo del Toro’s imaginative films have earned recognition at Cannes, Venice, and other festivals around the world. From Mexico, his Spanish language films earned him a place on the international stage beginning with his sensational 1993 feature debut Cronos, which was Mexico’s official submission to the Academy Awards, followed by The Devil’s Backbone (2001) and the universally acclaimed Pan’s Labyrinth (2006). His English-language features include Hellboy (2004), Pacific Rim (2013), and Crimson Peak (2015), followed by The Shape of Water (2017), which earned 3 prizes at Venice before winning Best Picture and Best Directing at the 2018 Academy Awards. His most recent features are Nightmare Alley (2021), which was nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture, and the stop-motion adaptation Pinocchio (2022), which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
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