October Horror Challenge - Vampires (1998)

 

Plot

Jack Crow is an orphan that was raised by the Catholic church to hunt vampires. When his team is ambushed and killed by a master vampire, he and his partner team up with a young priest and sex worker that's slowly turning to a vampire to take out the master and get his revenge.

Review

James Wood is a conservative asshole, but damn do I still love this flick. The gore is great, John Carpenter's soundtrack is phenomenal, the characters are memorable. You can read a previous review I did here.

In Your Game 

The movie's Macguffin would be appropriate in We Die Young or Bloodstarved.

Black Cross of Béziers

This ancient relic was forged in a small French town of the same name. It was used in the brutal reverse exorcism of heretical priest Jan Valek. The process turned him into a vampire, rumored by the Church to be the first, though records show this is definitely not true. 

If a priest performs a reverse exorcism, a vampire can be granted the ability to walk in the sun. This ritual involves the blood of a crusader being fed to the exorcised participant. The priest must complete the exorcism by the first light of dawn to completes the ritual.

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