Vampires (1998)
Actors:
John Carpenter (composer),
Luce Rains (actor),
James Woods (actor),
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (actor),
Lex Lang (actor),
Sheryl Lee (actress),
Maximilian Schell (actor),
Mark Boone Junior (actor),
Daniel Baldwin (actor),
Frank Darabont (actor),
Tim Guinee (actor),
Thomas Rosales Jr. (actor),
Henry Kingi (actor),
Melodee Spevack (miscellaneous crew),
John Carpenter (director),
Plot: The church has long known that vampires exist. However, it is discovered that a group of vampires are searching for a powerful doom for mankind. The Vatican then secretly enlists a team of vampire-hunters, led by Jack Crow, to hunt down and destroy the vampires before they find the crucifix.
Keywords: 1990s, action-hero, anti-hero, armored-truck, axe, bar, based-on-novel, betrayal, binoculars, bitten-in-the-neck
Genres:
Action,
Horror,
Thriller,
Taglines: The blood confrontation of the ages is about to begin. The final confrontation between good and evil has begun. They've been around for 600 years...and they're very, VERY thirsty. From the master of terror comes a new breed of evil. Prepare for the Dawn.
Quotes:
Jack Crow: [after interogating the padre and getting him to confess] Your a good man padre... welcome to the team.::Father Adam Guiteau: [broken] May God forgive me.
Valek: Isn't it beautiful? Something you'll never forget? I know I won't.
Jack Crow: You ever seen a vampire?::Father Adam Guiteau: No I haven't.::Jack Crow: No... Well first of all, they're not romatic. Its not like they're a bunch of fuckin' fags hoppin' around in rented formal wear and seducing everybody in sight with cheesy Euro-trash accents, all right? Forget whatever you've seen in the movies: they don't turn into bats, crosses don't work. Garlic? You wanna try garlic? You could stand there with garlic around your neck and one of these buggers will bend you fucking over and take a walk up your strada-chocolata WHILE he's suckin' the blood outta your neck, all right? And they don't sleep in coffins lined in taffata. You wanna kill one, you drive a wooden stake right through his fuckin' heart. Sunlight turns 'em into crispy critters.
Valek: For 600 years I have fed on your kind at will.
Jack Crow: What the fuck do you want, Valek?::Valek: Oh, you hate me so, don't ya? But you made me, Crusader. You hate what you made. You fear it because it is superior to you. For six hundred years, I've fed on your kind at will!::[Attempts to bite Jack but slowly refuses]::Valek: No.::Jack Crow: Why don't you just kill me and get it over with?::Cardinal Alba: Because you are needed, Jack. The ceremony is a re-enactment of the first exorcism. It requires the blood of a crusader and his crucifixion upon a burning cross. The climax of the ceremony must coincide with the first rays of the rising sun. Sorry, Jack.
Valek: You can't kill me.
[Jack Crow, having been beaten up by Valek, awakens to find himself strangled and tied to the front of his truck; Cardinal Alba appears, having turned to the dark side]::Cardinal Alba: Hello, Jack. [Chuckles] From your expression, I assume you couldn't understand my presence here. I'm sorry to disillusion you, Jack. As one grows old, as death approaches, we begin to question... our fate. And I found mine lacking. "Is there a god? Is there a heaven?" I can no longer answer this for certain. I've witnessed no miracles, had no visions, and the prospect of death terrifies me. I've realized I've only one... alternative, and I made a bargain. With the devil if you wish.::Jack Crow: You are truly a pile of dog shit, Cardinal.::Cardinal Alba: Yeah, that's right. [chuckles] That's correct, Jack and I can live with that. After I have given what Valek wants, he will fulfill our bargain. And I will be transformed into one of his... new children. It's beautiful, isn't it?::[Jack spits at the Cardinal's face]::Cardinal Alba: Eternal Life... Imortality... can change your heart.
Jack Crow: I killed my own father, padre. I got no trouble killing you.
Jack Crow: Padre... I'm beginning to like you... so don't make me hurt you, OK? Just tell me what you know... I'll buy you a beer and get you laid. Come on. If you don't tell me, I'm gonna have to start cutting on ya.::Father Adam Guiteau: No, you won't. You're a righteous man, Mr. Crow. Besides I serve a higher master than you. Any secrets I keep are to protect the church and its followers. Part of...::Jack Crow: [grabs Father Guiteau and pins him to the wall] Open your mouth.::Father Adam Guiteau: What?::Jack Crow: Open your mouth. Ah, yeah. [shoves a towel in Guiteau's mouth] Gimmie your hand.::Jack Crow: [Jack cuts Giuteau's hand with his switchblade knife] Now listen to me, you fuck! My father kept a secret once. He got bit by a vampire. He kept it a secret from me and my mother. By the fifth day he was turning. That night he attacked my mother and then he came after me. I killed my own father, Padre. I got no trouble killin' you. Last chance. [Padre gasping] Now open your motherfuckin' mouth.::Father Adam Guiteau: No.::Jack Crow: Open your fucking mouth! Then prepare...::Father Adam Guiteau: No! [screaming]::Jack Crow: What? Are you ready? Excuse me? What?::Father Adam Guiteau: Valek-Valek is for an ancient relic, the Cross of Berseires!
Jack Crow: Look padre... i'm starting to like you... so don't make me hurt you. Come on... tell me what you know... i'll buy you a beer and get you laid. If you don't i'm gonna have to start cutting on ya.::Father Adam Guiteau: No you won't... your a righteous man... besides any secrets i keep are to protect the church and its principles.::Jack Crow: [grabs padre and pins him to the wall] Open... open... [puts a towel in his mouth and cuts his hand]::Jack Crow: Now listen to me you fuck... my father kept a secret once... he got bit by a vampire... he kept it a secret from me and my mother... by the fifth day he was turning, that night he attacked my mother and then he came after me. I killed my own father padre... i got no trouble killin you. Now... last chance.::Father Adam Guiteau: [puts another towel in his mouth and pretends to lunge at his stomach with the knife] No... No... ok i'll talk.