Blade

Blade (1998) is a New Line Cinema action-horror you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Stephen Norrington from a Marvel Comics script, the film was made for $45 million and pulled in over $131 million at the global box office.

Blade is a Daywalker — born to a mother bitten by a vampire, he got the strength without the hunger. Wesley Snipes plays the hunter who moves through the night in black leather and titanium blades, keeping an entire underground vampire civilization on edge. His mentor Whistler, played by Kris Kristofferson, keeps the weaponry and the serum coming. The threat is Deacon Frost — Stephen Dorff as a young, reckless vampire with a plan to resurrect a blood god and end the human race for good.

Three years before Spider-Man, Blade proved that a Marvel adaptation could be dark, violent and genuinely cool — and profitable. It launched a franchise and quietly laid the groundwork for everything Marvel has done on screen since. Stream Blade (1998) in full on iFILM.