Underworld: Awakening

Ok, so last Friday I went to see the fourth installment in the Underworld movie series and I have an announcement to make…..I want to be Selene! She is such a freakin badass and she’s a vampire, which is pretty cool too. Ok, ok, this isn’t technically a book, but you know how I get when it comes to Vampire/Lycan anything, I’m mildly obsessed.

As some of you know, I interviewed Brian E. Niskala, author of Rhinehoth, and asked him his opinion on the Vampire/Lycan age old hatred, which you can read here. I also talked to a folklorist who gave me a little insight on how the story of Vampires began. Basically, Dracula was far from the first. The idea of vampires actually started with feminist women rebelling against the man’s “ideal” woman. These women were ladies of the night, sexually provocative, and anti-children. And judging from Selene’s history throughout this series, she doesn’t fall far from her blood sucking ancestors.

And these are serious Vampires and Lycans, like, can’t go out during the day, bloodthirsty, superhuman fast and strong type of vampires- no glitter here. In one scene, the best scene ever in my opinion, Selene guts a dead vampire, shocks his heart back to life, and walks out of the room like the baddest bitch around. And, I mean, let’s face it, she is. In another memorable scene, she breaks a man’s arm by breaking his elbow apart and sticking his bone through his skin (did I mention this is all in 3D?).

To break it down for you, Vampires and Lycans have been having a secret war, away from human eyes, for hundreds of years. Humans have caught onto this “underworld” tussle and have started, what they call, “the cleansing,” the elimination of these demon diseases. Our friend, Selene and her lover (Michael), the hybrid, are trying to flee the city and are caught. She wakes up 12 years later in a research lab.

After escaping the lab, she then finds out she has a daughter who is, like Michael, a hybrid. From there, it’s an awesome visual journey to safety and trying to find the possibly dead Michael. To make a long story short, it’s freaking amazing and everybody should watch this movie.

Happy watching,

B