Blade Opening Scene

This is the opening scene of 'Blade'. The fact that it starts in a nightclub is unusual, as thrillers and horror movies are normally set in a forest or dark streets. The lighting of this scene is largely made up of blues and blacks, with flashes from strobe lights. This kind of ligthing is eerie and suggests that all isn't as it seems.

the clothes and expressions of the dancers are quite aggressive and out of place to those of 'normal' people and so you get a sense of them being a certain 'type' of people. This later links to the fact that they are vampires.

the scene includes some fast cuts when the man is searching around the club. This adds suspense and shows his confusion. it adds a sense of panic. at first, you pay little attention to the dancers, until a drop of blood falls on the main man. this is then followed by the dancers raising their arms in some sort of worship, and then blood sprays from the sprinklers. as you can only see the clubbers' arms surrounding the man's head, the whole scene is eerie. the way they move their arms is as though they are worshipping the blood, and when the d.j raises his hat and the lights to the sprinlers, it is as though he is a god giving the blood to them.