Fourteenth Annual FMS Scarilicious October Movie Series: #5 John Carpenter's Vampires

 In this 1998 flick, directed and scored by John Carpenter, James Woods leads a very organized and well-funded (by the Vatican, no less) squad of vampire slayers (no, not chosen teenaged girls).  They rout a big nest - and these vamps do not die easily, by the way, as you have to literally hammer the stakes into their hearts and then drag them into sunlight to burn.  And then, whilst celebrating their success with boozer and s3x workers, the master vampire descends upon them.  He pretty much literally shreds the squad and h00kers (fifteen or so bodies in his wake), leaving only James Woods, Daniel Baldwin and Sheryl Lee alive.  The master vamp has bitten Sheryl, however, so JW and DB use her psychic connection with him to track him, at least until she turns.

Along the way they are joined by a young priest who informs them that this master vampire is the O.G. vampire, like the first one, accidentally created in the 1300s by the Catholic Church during a botched exorcism.  Now, the O.G. vamp is searching for a relic that will allow him to day-walk.  He finds the relic.  James Woods et als. find him.  Carnage ensues.

Question from my notes: Has James Woods ever been considered a good actor?

Look, this is a basic, boring, not at all scary vampire movie.  Although the bloody (extremely bloody) bits are fun, I expected a lot more from John Carpenter.