10 Horror Movie Trilogies That Have The WORST Endings

The first real progenitor of the MCU, Blade brought the titular half-vampire anti-superhero onto our screens at the close of the 20th century, going hard on the violence and mayhem without an all-controlling studio to kowtow to. Stephen Norrington’s first film in the trilogy introduced Wesley Snipes as Blade - a sort of bloodsucking Shaft, whose trench coat and shades slotted in nicely with the too cool for school, late-‘90s cyber aesthetic that the Matrix helped kill.

Out to avenge his mother's death and put paid to the vampire plague once and for all, Blade faces down a host of big nasties in his first outing and lays the groundwork for Guillermo del Toro’s explosive sequel Blade II. While inferior to the first, the second helping is nonetheless admirably ambitious in its stunts and style (if not in character development). The series really could have gone anywhere from here, but unfortunately it went to producer-turned-director David S Goyer.

Blade: Trinity is juvenile and silly - something reflected in its 15 rating (down from 18 for the previous two) - and does the character and his universe no justice. The addition of an on-brand Ryan Reynolds and grim-faced Triple H to the roster hurt the film, but the real stake through the film's heart is the villain - Dominic Purcell's pouty, open-shirted, post-grunge version of Dracula. Blade killing the king of the vampires should have happened with a bang, not a yarled whimper.