Plot:
Text onscreen informs us that the virus K-17 is thought to be real. City view, credits roll. We get the first of many voiceovers. The number of voiceovers here
is approximately the same as in Dune the Alan Smithee made for television version. In 1962, a virus was discovered and studied. Later all the studies
concerning it are written off. All data about this virus has been removed from the public.
Some woman is running in a park from something. Infra-red visioned thing chases after her. She trips and the thing gets her.
MICHAEL DORN is a molecular biologist studying a cure for HIV. By the way, he is a scientist. They hit us over the head repeatedly he’s a scientist in the
movie way. He continues his voiceover how the cure costs too much now.
Apparently, only 4 work in the group: MICHAEL DORN, Scott who does lab work, Alec who coordinates unlike Fred Sanford. Alec is shown what MICHAEL
DORN has done; he wants more time to research this batch. Alec wants to move along with the testing being under pressure for results.
We are introduced to the fourth member of the group: Lance. He happens to a complete psychotic nut job. Lance escorts MICHAEL DORN to the testing.
Voiceover, the K-17 was spliced with a blood sample to become RK-17. They test on human with HIV. MICHAEL DORN injects a bum who bites him. We
learn that Lance is a former Marine and bounty hunter. Bum and MICHAEL DORN struggle. Lance unloads a clip into the bum. Somehow, the syringe is stuck
in MICHAEL DORN’S leg. Lance is going to shoot him but out of bullets. MICHAEL DORN shoots Lance in the leg and escapes.
Proper needle safety.
Apparently, the lab subjects are radio tagged. One of the subjects escaped and started killing random people. There is a security agency to cover mistakes like
MICHAEL DORN. We get a scene where he clubs a guy with a 2x4 and is shot. While the security guy turns away from MICHAEL DORN to call his
boss. MICHAEL DORN has vanished.
MICHAEL DORN is wandering around and eventually knocks a guy out and takes his clothes. Roaming throughout the city, it begins to rain. He takes shelter
in an abandoned warehouse. Apparently, he lost his wife. He keels over and starts growling, gets up, and breaks a mirror. But, he still has a reflection in the mirror.
Lance who is now dressed like a redneck biker with a leg brace. In a dark room, he reports to the Council concerning MICHAEL DORN being infected. The
head of the Council needs MICHAEL DORN eliminated. Gage will help Lance in the mission. Guess what? Lance doesn‘t work with anyone especially
half-breeds.
Lance rides up to where Gage hangs out. Gage looks like a cheap knock-off of Spike from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. He is told that MICHAEL
DORN must be eliminated. Gage is told that Council wants him to do. Gage has informants on the street to find MICHAEL DORN. Lance rides off.
Later, Gage needs a little Bolivian Bingo dust. He sends a couple of his flunkies to find MICHAEL DORN.
MICHAEL DORN is feeding. His voiceover informs us he is disgusted by what he is becoming. In a cemetery, he visits his wife’s grave. The renegade
subject killed his wife. A flashback ensues for him to identify her body. There is a confusing scene that looks like the scene where the woman is chased at the
beginning. But, that can’t be his wife.
In an alley, MICHAEL DORN has decided to only eat evil people. He runs into Lance who shoots him. Later, he awakens tied upside down from the
ceiling. Lance gets out his knife collection. The way to kill a vampire is to cut out their heart. Wait, that’ll do the trick for anyone. Lance is getting even madder
in the nut-house definition. MICHAEL DORN grabs Lance’s knife and cuts himself free. He manages to escape.
MICHAEL DORN realizes how society would change if the virus were spread. A few days later, in a park, during the day, he gets hunger pains. Spotting a
couple of chicks, he grabs one of them for a snack. So much for eating bad people. His voiceover informs us he realizes he’s become a monster.
MICHAEL DORN is strolling through the city. Gage sneaks up on him and starts beating him. Lance rides up, shooting. MICHAEL DORN manages to run
off. He loses Lance and Gage.
MICHAEL DORN realizes he needs to prepare to survive. He has fashioned a bulletproof chest plate and makes more Kevlar body armor. But, all of this is
defensive and has got to get some weapons for offense.
Gage’s boys stake out MICHAEL DORN’S apartment. But, he gets inside the ransacked place. He is sure his gun, sword, and a picture of him and his wife
are still there. But, the sword is gone. They come in searching for him. MICHAEL DORN takes care of them quickly.
I am Vash the Stampede...
Gage and Lance have a shootout with MICHAEL DORN, who drops the picture of his wife but manages to escape. Gage takes the picture. Could this be the
McGuffin to give MICHAEL DORN the power to defeat Spike, I mean Gage later. Well, MICHAEL DORN realizes he needs superior firepower to combat the
twin menaces of Gage and Lance.
Wes Borland wants vengeance on Limp Bizkit.
In a warehouse, a minivan pulls up. MICHAEL DORN wants to buy guns from these guys. Guess what? The briefcase is empty. MICHAEL DORN manages
to kill the enforcers and get a minivan full of guns.
Lance is complaining to Gage when the gun seller arrives, mentioning his gun cache was stolen. Lance pops a cap in the guy to keep him from whining. Back
at the warehouse, Lance and Gage find the bodies. Neither of them can stand the other one. Gage wants to quit this job, but can’t because of the Council’s
involvement.
Scott, remember Scott, worked with MICHAEL DORN in the lab, is leaving for his car. MICHAEL DORN kills him then apologizes for it. He has a mission to
insure there are no more bloodsucking freaks.
In the factory complex, MICHAEL DORN is prowling about. He must destroy everyone involved with the project and is setting explosives about the
machinery. Driving away, he detonates the explosives.
Alec is at work when he hears something. MICHAEL DORN arrives, demanding answers about RK-17. Who runs the project? Alec claims he doesn’t know
and manages to escape. A 30 mile per hour car chase ensues. Slowly, Alec crashes his car. It occurs off screen, so I’m sure the car wasn’t injured in this
movie. MICHAEL DORN begins the slow paced walking that Jason Voorhees perfected in Friday the 13th series. It is a little hard to think of it as
intimidating as we hear the stomach growling imposed over this foot chase. In another warehouse, Alec is torn into several profusely bleeding pieces.
Lance is hauled over the coals once again. Now, the Council has changed their minds. They need MICHAEL DORN alive. Lance is taken off the case and
given another case. Needless to say, Lance is more than perturbed about it.
Is it me or does that guy look like Corey Feldman?
MICHAEL DORN has the files on Gage. He comes from a more aggressive strain than MICHAEL DORN. Even worse, Gage volunteered for the
virus. They looked for people to volunteer to become vampires?
Gage is going through a kata which Lance scorns. We get to see Lance go through a nunchuck demonstration concluding with him screaming
“US Marines.” Gage senses that MICHAEL DORN is nearby. They can sense each other like the immortals on Highlander.
A gunfight ensues. Gage has a knife stabbed in his back. Gage versus MICHAEL DORN. Lance reappears with a crossbow. MICHAEL DORN hobbles
away with Lance and Gage in pursuit. On a rooftop, MICHAEL DORN falls off of it to escape. Lance and Gage have another fight. I’m starting to think these guys
have some issues they can’t seem to express to each other.
Later, Lance is raked over the coals again. He is beaten and given the choice to leave and live or die. He is to avoid MICHAEL DORN.
MICHAEL DORN gets the crossbow bolt out of his leg. He pulls it out, painfully. Well, no way for it not to hurt. He finds a file concerning the doctor who
first studied K-17 in 1962.
He is skulking around and finds the doctor who apparently recommended him for the project. Doctor will tell who is behind the project. Vampire blood is used in
RK-17. Guess what, MICHAEL DORN can’t believe it? You’ve been shot repeatedly and are still standing. You have the strange compulsion to drink blood. The
last batch of serum that infected MICHAEL DORN will be used by the pure blood vampire Council to rule the world. The doctor reveals he is the Council’s guinea
pig. A vampire vaccine exists. Doctor is infected, too. He wants to be human again.
Lance and Gage are chilling. Lance once again wants to eliminate the Council once and for all.
MICHAEL DORN prepares for war: guns, knives, etc…
Lance calls Raphael out. He has the big honkin’ guns ready. Attempted Rambo machine gunning doth ensue.
MICHAEL DORN pulls into the garage. Lance and Gage are together leaving the Council chamber. They go in the elevator. It’s MICHAEL DORN with
a sword versus the gun-toting Lance. He is shot as Lance comes in to finish the kill. MICHAEL DORN manages to kill Lance.
Gage arrives with his sword. Wait, he has MICHAEL DORN’S sword and picture of his wife. Sword fighting continues. MICHAEL DORN loses his sword,
trying to block Gage’s parry with a gun. Shooting Gage, MICHAEL DORN finishes him, too.
In the darkened Council room save for one light, MICHAEL DORN looks for this mysterious Council. A group of vague philosophical robe wearers surround
him. MICHAEL DORN is accused of thinking it’s too easy to kill the Council. The leader of the Council is Raphael Ravencroft who was disguised as the Doctor.
MICHAEL DORN talked with it. Raphael was born in 13th Century and is a vampire. Man and technology have replaced vampires. Man is immune to the
virus. Vampires can’t infect humans like they were able to do in the past.
Imagine Eros from Plan 9 from Outer Space ranting about the environment comes awfully close to
Raphael except that was campy. This is trying to be serious. Raphael is complaining about pollution. Pollution killed most of the vampires. There are only 5
vampires left in the world. The research into HIV, Raphael accuses the humans of creating HIV to kill drug users, etc…Vampires want the cure for HIV to keep
humans alive as a food source. RK-17 cures HIV, but apparently turns you into a vampire. Raphael wants elite vampires to be the top of the food chain with pure
blooded humans to have for snacks.
MICHAEL DORN’S batch of virus is good. He is asked to join them. MICHAEL DORN refuses and pulls a gun with silver bullets to shoot the vampires. He
manages to sword some of them. Raphael escapes.
MICHAEL DORN walks away. The bodies of Lance and Gage are gone. He sets one last explosive charge and ides off blowing up the building. We get the
final voiceover. Lance, Gage, Raphael, and the test subjects are loose in the world. He needs to create an anti-virus and eliminate the vampires permanently.
Raphael gets out another vial of RK-17. A woman screams as the movie ends.
