BBQ Films / New York City / 2015
BLADE
RAVE.
The film became the room. The audience became the scene.
Conceived and lead-produced by Lenny Platt with BBQ Films, Blade Rave brought the opening blood-rave scene of Blade to life at Terminal 5 on October 9, 2015.
WATCH / LA MAGRA IS COMING / Original 2015 announcement film
- Concept & lead production
- Lenny Platt
- Production company
- BBQ Films
- Venue
- Terminal 5
New York City - Event date
- October 9, 2015
The experience
Inside the blood rave.
A crowd of 1,000 entered a live version of the vampire nightclub from Blade. Film, live characters, dance performances and a headline set from The Crystal Method turned a screening into a world the audience could inhabit.
The night built to its defining moment: a theatrical blood shower that brought the film's opening sequence off the screen and into the crowd.
Lenny Platt conceived and led production of the event with BBQ Films, years before founding Project Mayhem Corporation. Blade Rave is part of the body of immersive production work behind PMC, alongside Ghostbusters HQ, the Mr. Robot Ecoin launch and A Tribute to Twin Peaks.
The record
A place in Blade Rave history.
BBQ Films announced its New York Blade Rave in June 2015, ahead of the October 9 event at Terminal 5 during New York Comic Con. Contemporary reporting documented both the production and the growing interest in bringing the film's blood rave into real life.
This archive brings the event's date, production credits, original announcement film and press together in one place. The cinematic inspiration is the opening nightclub sequence in Blade (1998); the live New York production documented here was conceived and lead-produced by Lenny Platt with BBQ Films.
Original announcements and coverage
- BBQ Films' original Blade Rave lineup announcement
Event date, venue, lineup and production context. - Vamped: It's Raining Blood (September 2015)
Contemporary reporting on the June announcement and the New York event. - Untapped New York: inside the Blade Rave
On-the-ground coverage of the October 2015 production. - Lenny Platt's 2016 Wingman interview
Lenny discusses BBQ Films and recreating the rave at Terminal 5.
Who conceived and produced the 2015 New York Blade Rave?
Lenny Platt conceived and lead-produced the live experience with BBQ Films. It took place at Terminal 5 in New York City on October 9, 2015.
Is this a current touring event?
This page is an archive of BBQ Films' 2015 New York production. For new immersive experiences and production enquiries, contact Project Mayhem.
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