Underworld

                                                            

 

            I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war

                has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes. But all that is about

                          to change.

 

Perched on the ledge of a building in a rainy night, two vampires known as "Death Dealers" track a pair of werewolves walking on the street below. The vampires, Selene and Rigel, specialize in assassinating an ancient species of werewolves known as Lycans. Selene's motivation goes beyond duty; she wants revenge, for she believes that Lycans slaughtered her family when she was a child. The vampires believe that they defeated the werewolves many centuries ago and killed their leader, Lucian, and that they must now kill off the survivors. As the vampires follow the Lycans into a subway station, the werewolves realize that they are being followed, and they open fire with submachine guns. In the chaotic shootout, Selene realizes that the Lycans may have been following a human, Michael Corvin, which is very unusual for the Lycans. After the Lycans retreat from Selene's barrage of pistol fire, she tracks them to their lair...

When Selene arrives at the vampire coven's mansion, she recounts the evening's events. But the vampire regent Kraven tells her to drop the matter. Selene secretly continues her investigation, to find out why the Lycans were chasing a human,and whether there is a large den of Lycans. Meanwhile, in an underground Lycan lair, a scientist named Singe is testing blood from kidnapped descendants of the Corvinus family, to try to find a pure source of the ancient and powerful Corvinus blood type. Soon after Selene finds Michael, the pair are attacked by werewolves, including Lucian, the original Lycan leader, who bites Michael on the shoulder. Selene helps Michael to escape, and the two become romantically involved.

Selene continues her investigation by breaking into the coven's library to learn about the hidden past of their clan. After she learns from an ancient leather-bound book that Lucian and Kraven formed a conspiracy to hide Lucian's death, she awakens a powerful elder vampire Viktor, who has been in hibernation. After Selene captures the Lycan scientist Singe, he admits to Viktor that the Lycans have been trying combine the bloodlines of the two species with the Corvinus strain to create a powerful Vampire-Lycan hybrid. After Kraven flees the mansion, Viktor kills Singe and instructs Selene to kill Michael. Selene races to rescue Michael from the safehouse where she had hidden him, but is unsuccessful after he is captured and taken to the Lycan lair.

Meanwhile, in the Lycan lair where Michael is being held captive, he learns from Lucian that in ancient times, Lycans were a kind of "servant" to vampires. Lucian tells Michael that he took Viktor's daughter as his bride. When Viktor learned of their relationship he killed her to prevent any crossing of the two species, which led to the war. Soon after learning of Kraven's alliance with Lucian, a vampire strike team attacks the Lycan lair. Kraven shoots Lucian in the back and severely wounds him and then shoots Michael several times. Kraven reveals that it was actually Viktor who killed her entire family, but spared her because she reminded him of his daughter.

Kraven is about to shoot them when Lucian, severely wounded, stabs Kraven and urges Selene to bite Michael, so that his blood will have both Lycan and vampire strains. As Selene bites Michael, Viktor enters and admits to murdering Selene's family. Viktor flings the wounded Michael aside and warns Selene against inter-breeding of the species. As he moves to finish off Michael, who in the meantime has changed into a Lycan-vampire hybrid, Selene slices Viktor's head in two. Selene and Michael flee the Lycan lair. Back at the mansion, as Singe's blood seeps through the trapdoor of the sarcophagus of the remaining elder, Marcus, he begins to revive...

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Directed by Len Wiseman
Produced by Robert Bernacchi
Gary Lucchesi
Tom Rosenberg
Written by Kevin Grevioux
Len Wiseman
Danny McBride
Starring Kate Beckinsale
Scott Speedman
Michael Sheen
Bill Nighy
Shane Brolly
Music by  
Distributed by Screen Gems (Sony)
Release date(s) September 19, 2003
Running time 116 mins
Language English
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