Hooptober 2020 – Epilogue: reviews | list
The one thing you can say for certain is that after Awakening tried to turn Underworld into just another faceless action franchise, Blood Wars takes it back to its roots in silly fantasy mythology—especially with the creation of the vampires of the northern coven, which are cooler than maybe anything else in the Underworld universe?
I mean, I love Underworld as an exploration of racist propaganda and ideology, but just in terms of sheer goth-teen badassery, the vampires of the north really are absolutely the coolest. They commune with the dead, and they attack in a ghostly fashion, almost as if they were samurai in an anime, blinking from one location in space-time…