A team of Vatican-sponsored vampire hunters led by Jack Crow rids an abandoned house of vampires in the middle of New Mexico during a daylight raid. The team coordinates their attacks, using submachine gun fire to slow the vampires down followed by harpooning them with battle pikes; Crow finished each using a modified crossbow to spear the vampires within the house so that a mechanical winch can pull them outside into the daylight where they burst into flames. The house is the largest nest the team has ever encountered, with nine 'goons' (vampire soldiers); however, Jack is concerned that they did not find a 'master' (an older, more powerful vampire) within. Later, the team celebrates at a local hotel with drinking and prostitutes, to the disapproval of the local sheriff and the priest assigned to the team. Crow is unable to celebrate and shares his concerns about the missing master with the priest. During the height of the party, the master vampire, Valek, arrives and 'turns' one of the prostitutes, Katrina, by biting her and initiating her transformation into a vampire. He then attacks the party, swiftly murdering the hunters present, with only Crow, his trusted lieutenant, Tony Montoya, and Katrina escaping.
MPAA Rating: | R |
Genre: | Action, Horror, Thriller |
Country: | Japan, United States |
Produced By: | Sandy King, David Rodgers, Don Jakoby, Barr B. Potter |
Directed By: | John Carpenter |
Written By: | John Steakley, Don Jakoby |
Cast: | Clarke Coleman, Luce Rains, John Casino, Sheryl Lee, Michael Huddleston, Dennis E. Garber, Tim Guinee, Gregory Sierra, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, John Furlong, Candice Kirkiles, Laura Cordova, Daniel Baldwin, James Woods, Henry Kingi, Danielle Burgio, Cris Thomas-Palomino, Angelina Torres, Troy Robinson, Frank Darabont, Jimmy Ortega, Maximilian Schell, Thomas Rosales Jr., Chad Stahelski, David Rowden, Mark Boone Junior, Marjean Holden, Thomas Ian Griffith, Jake Walker, Lex Lang, Gilbert Rosales, Todd Anderson, James 'JR' Pollard, Mark Sivertsen |
In Theaters: | Oct 30, 1998 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 48 minutes |
Production: | Largo Entertainment, JVC Entertainment Networks, Storm King Productions |
Budget: | $20,000,000 |
Box Office: | $20,308,772 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |