Blade (film) has become the vampire hunter Blade. He raids a Los Angeles rave club owned by the vampire Deacon Frost. Police take one of the vampires to the hospital, where he kills Dr. Curtis Webb and feeds on hematologist Karen Jenson and escapes. Blade takes Karen to a safe house where she is treated by his old friend Abraham Whistler (Kristofferson). Whistler explains that he and Blade have been waging a secret war against vampires using weapons based on their elemental weaknesses, such as sunlight and silver. As Karen is now "marked" by the bite of a vampire, both he and
The Chalice and the Blade and sustainable ways. The Chalice and the Blade The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler, first published in 1987, presents a conceptual framework for studying social systems with particular attention to how a society constructs the roles and relations between the female and male halves of humanity. Eisler proposes that the tension between what she calls the dominator or domination model and the partnership model, underlies the long span of human cultural evolution, tracing this tension in Western culture from prehistory to the present. The book closes with two contrasting scenarios for the future, thus