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Jan Valek, mainly known as Valek is a 600-year-old vampire who is the first of his kind as well as the first of their Masters, and he is the main antagonist of the 1998 horror film John Carpenter's Vampires, which is based on the 1990 dark fantasy novel novel Vampire$ by John Steakley.
He was portrayed by Thomas Ian Griffith, who also plays Terry Silver in The Karate Kid Part III and Cobra Kai.
Jan Valek was born in Prague in 1311 A.D. He was a Catholic priest who turned against the Church and led the Bohemian peasants in an uprising. Valek was later captured, tried for heresy and burned at the stake. But after his death, there were reports that Valek was seen walking at night. It was said that he murdered the living to drink their blood. His grave was found to be empty when local and church authorities first opened it. This became the first known case of vampirism.
Because of his actions against the Church, it was decided during his trial that Valek had at some point become possessed by demons. He was taken to the small town of Berziers (or Béziers) in the province of Languedoc, France, and subjected to an ancient, forbidden, and brutal form of Catholic exorcism. However, something went horribly wrong. Although the accounts are confused, they refer to an "inverse exorcism," an exorcism in which dark powers are called upon to reclaim the possessed soul. In the ritual, Valek's body was destroyed but the possessed soul remained within him. This horrible mistake transformed Valek into a creature whose body is dead but continues to live on: a vampire.
•Producer Sandy King cast Thomas Ian Griffith as Valek because the filmmakers wanted "someone who looks formidable, but is also alluring. There always has to be something alluring about the evil nature of the vampire."
•The character of Valek does not exist in the novel, and is the mixture of the two main antagonists of the book: the first is Ross Stewart, a powerful vampire who massacres all of Jack Crow's previous team and is killed in the middle of the novel, only to appear in flashbacks of the story of Davette (a young journalist who joins Jack's team), who tells of being seduced by him and who once attended the same school as him, and was subjected by him to innumerable psychophysical tortures; the second is Simon Kennedy, a vampire master who orders Stewart to assassinate Jack and his friends, and who is killed at the end of the book after a terrible fight.
Vampires (also known as John Carpenter's Vampires) is a 1998 American neo-Western action horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter and starring James Woods. It was adapted from the novel Vampire$ by John Steakley. Woods stars as Jack Crow, the leader of a team of vampire hunters.
Sinopse. Desde quando foi obrigado a matar seu pai, que tinha virado um vampiro que depois de atacar sua mãe quis subjugá-lo também, Jack Crow (James Woods) vive para se vingar.
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Esqueça tudo o que você já ouviu sobre vampiros. Quando o Mestre Vampiro Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith) dizima toda a equipe de Jack, Crow e apenas um sobrevivente, Montoya (Daniel Bladwin), saem em sua perseguição. Quebrando todas as regras, Crow e Montoya capturam uma das reféns de Valek.
Sinopse. O protagonista Jack Crow, interpretado por James Woods é o chefe de um grupo de caçadores de vampiros, contratados pelo Vaticano. Eles chegam ao Novo México para buscar o vampiro Valek, interpretado por Thomas Ian Griffith, que é um vampiro que está vivo desde o século XIV.
