The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
Direction
Carpenter's final pure genre film, unapologetically himself
Score
That synth score hits harder than a stake through the heart
Acting
James Woods doing unhinged James Woods things
Director
John Carpenter
James Woods
Jack Crow
Daniel Baldwin
Anthony Montoya
Sheryl Lee
Katrina
Thomas Ian Griffith
Jan Valek
Maximilian Schell
Cardinal Alba
Tim Guinee
Father Adam Guiteau
Mark Boone Junior
Catlin
Gregory Sierra
Father Giovanni
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
David Deyo
Thomas Rosales Jr.
Ortega
Henry Kingi
Anthony
David Rowden
Bambi
Mark Sivertsen
Highway Patrolman
John Furlong
Father Joseph Molina
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Carpenter composed the score under his alias 'John Carpenter' — because of course he did.
This was Carpenter's last financially successful theatrical release before his late-career 'lost master' redemption arc.
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