Blade: House of Chthon (2006)

Simply Perfect

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Good movie but grossly overrated

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

From the very beginning it was weird to see Sticky Fingaz instead of Wesley Snipes, but once you get used to it, "Blade" becomes quite entertaining show. It's sequel to the movie franchise and has pretty good plot that pulls you in and it's a shame it was canceled after single season. There's no bigger flaws to brag about, but it also doesn't have any outstanding qualities. Just an average Marvel that will bring joy to Blade fans and mediocre for the rest of us.6/10

After a very disappointing "Blade Trinity" I wasn't expecting very much of this series. "Blade" the series manages to deepen some issues surrounding Blade and at the same provide the action we are used to from the movies. That doesn't mean it is a better product than the movie trilogy. Because "Blade" the series certainly has some flaws. One of them is that Blade doesn't seem to be the only main character. For some reason "Krista" (a woman turned into a vampire by Marcus Van Sciver) is introduced. And the larger part of the story is mainly about her involvement of things. I liked her and she performed real well. But shouldn't the focus be more on Blade. In that aspect I think it is a missed opportunity to show more of Blade and his past (only 2 episodes directly concerning his childhood.) Also what was the point of Larry Pointdexter having in the show. He is not directly involved and doesn't really add anything special to the show. Like some other characters that were in the show. I did like the mature approach of matters. The series isn't shy of showing blood and gore. Some scenes are just disturbing. It will shock you! The result is that the vampires look scarier and more dangerous. They are a force to be reckoned with and not just simple monsters to be killed off by Blade. "Blade" the series is highly entertaining and a good addition in the "Blade" franchise. A good show that won't be renewed but does deserve to have a second season!

I thought it was well written, tasteful, and no, I don't work for the studio. Ha. Ha. They took a good series of movies and made them into an interesting TV series. There are plot twists. We see information about the characters. Characters are developed in that one would start as one type of person and through personal experience or those of others become something else as in the case of Chase or Krista. I liked the part where we, the viewers, saw how Marcus got to where he was though we didn't actually see how he built his real estate empire we did see how he interacted with his superiors who treated him like a dog. And, then 100 years later he had developed a biological agent and killed them. I saw some scenes from a second season showed on TV a few months ago. I haven't seen too much on the web about the series. Keep up the good work.

Network: Spike TV; Genre: Action, Drama, Horror; Content Rating: TV-14 (for strong language, graphic violence and gore); Perspective: Contemporary (star range: 1 - 4); Seasons Reviewed: Complete Series (1 season) For their first big scripted dramatic series, Spike TV went to the movie well and got screenwriter David S. Goyer himself to adapt Marvel comic book character and movie trilogy star Blade for the small screen. Half-human, half-vampire, Blade (Kirk "Sticky" Jones, "Over There"), also known as The Daywalker, tries to infiltrate a vast highly sophisticated underground syndicate of vampires. Meanwhile, a battle brews between the infected, lead by Marcus Van Sciver (Neil Jackson), and the purebloods that rule the vampire bloodline, one of the leaders of which – in the show's best character twist - is 12-year old Charlotte (Emily Hirst)."Sticky" Jones does a decent Blade, as well as Wesley Snipes, but even at series length Blade is an anti-social one-note force of martial arts destruction. The show compensates by bringing in an original character. After her brother is shot by Marcus in the pilot, Krista (Jill Wagner) ventures into the vampire underworld, is converted and is then flipped by Blade as a double agent on the inside. With Blade left to do nothing more than grunt and growl, the show follows Krista's rise to the right hand of Marcus - much to the chagrin of his beautiful partner Chase (Jessica Gower) - as he tries to develop a vaccine to kill the purebloods.One of the most interesting things about the "Blade" movies was that vampirism was treated like a disease and the aristocratic depiction of the vampire culture and inside of which where political power struggles between the 2 "races". It is fertile ground for a series to explore and yet "Blade: the series" feels like a monumental missed opportunity. Vampirism is now sold on the street like a drug as "Ash", but otherwise the show can't think of any new avenues to take itself down. If we aren't getting action how about vampirism as a social metaphor? The whole production reeks of an inescapable feeling of creative claustrophobia. I know should be grateful, given how few shows like this actually are on TV, but good intentions don't keep me entertained.But the marquee appeal of "Blade" was the comic book fight scenes. While the Pilot looks great (the visual style of the entire series is slick eye-candy), as the show goes to series the action is suffocated by the Spike TV budget. In order to pay for a CGI effect of vampire skeletons exploding into dust (or a bit like my favorite, where Krista decapitates a vampire with a street sign), "Blade" scrimps and saves every penny by padding the show with endless, endless, scenes of expository conversation and dramatic dialog, effectively turning "Blade" into a vampire-related drama instead of a comic book actioner. And that is the biggest, and likely unavoidable, mis-step the show makes. All the saving does pay off in the end. If you can make it that far the show delivers a satisfying face-to-face final battle between Blade and Marcus.I should also make the point that the TV-14 rating given to the show by Spike is wildly, irresponsibly, inappropriate given the language and level of gore on display here. "Blade" is a basic cable TV-MA if I've ever seen it.* * / 4