When it comes to Kate Beckinsale, the audience is most familiar with his "Legend of the Night" series of horror films.
In fact, as early as 1994, 21-year-old Kate Beckinsale became famous for the British suspense film "Step by Step", and won the title of "British Rose" for her exquisite appearance.
After becoming famous, Kate starred in several films, but until 2001's Pearl Harbor was the first major production film in which she starred; despite the film's good reputation, the dismal box office and Kate Beckinsale's much-criticized acting skills ushered in a major turning point in her career.
Because of this film, she was directly blacklisted by the six major Hollywood film companies, and since then, her career has fallen into a trough.
Until 2003, the release of "Legend of the Night" turned the former "British Rose" into a "vampire queen", and the film earned more than $50 million at the north American box office and nearly $100 million in the global box office.
The image of "Luna" Selena played by Kate Beckinsale is deeply rooted in people's hearts, with a delicate face, a patent leather suit, and a heroic posture to become a well-deserved "queen", which also makes Kate countless fans in the global circle.
In 2006, "Tales of the Night 2" was released, with a North American box office of 62 million and a global box office of $110 million, and the word of mouth was also good.
Since then, "Legend of the Night" as a vampire series of theme films can not be received; by 2016, "Tales of the Night 5" was released, the series of five works, as a vampire theme of the film, the global influence is not weaker than the "Twilight" series.
Tales of the Night is set outside of humans, in a dark underground world where two rival races, the werewolf and the vampire, have been fighting for hundreds of years. But for humans, they are nothing more than ghost legends in the streets and alleys.
Later, vampires gained the upper hand in the struggle and gained the privileges of the underworld, but the existence of the werewolf tribe still threatened their noble status, so a "death walker" composed of elite vampire warriors was established to eradicate the human wolf.
The werewolf tribe is a group of evildoers, inhabiting an underground warehouse, fierce and fierce, plotting revenge again and again.
The first story is that Selena meets the true son of Michael, even leaving her group for him, and Michael is the target of the werewolf and has a surprising background.
Tales of the Night 2, after the abilities of werewolves and vampires are fused, they evolve into a new race, the "Blood Clan", with ambitions to unify the three races of werewolves, vampires and humans; Michael and Selena foil Marx's plot and defeat the twin brothers who have been imprisoned for a thousand years.
Tales of the Night 3 is set in the distant past as a memoir, telling the story of the rise of the Werewolf Clan and the beginning of a war that lasted for hundreds of years...
In Tales of the Night 4, Kate Beckinsale returns, and at the beginning of the story, humans have discovered the weakness of vampires for UV rays and werewolves for silver, and have begun to eliminate vampires and werewolves and gain an absolute advantage.
The heroine woke up in the laboratory, frozen for 12 years, and she found a girl through induction, who was her and Michael's child, with extremely terrifying powers. The werewolf incarnated as a human mastery institute and found a way to make the werewolf no longer afraid of silver, and finally the vampire mother and daughter fought the werewolf father and son. The story of the fourth part is somewhat dog-tailed, which is a lot worse than the first two, and the screenwriter is also painstakingly innovating the story, but the box office is the highest in the entire series, with a global box office of 160 million US dollars.
The story of the fifth part is based on Selena protecting her daughter, the wolf clan fights back with all its might, and the vampire pardons selena who is exiled, which actually has a more dangerous purpose.
"Tales of the Night 5" only grossed 0.8 billion yuan worldwide, only half of the fourth part; in addition to the failure of the box office, the reputation plummeted, which is the worst in the series.
Since then, the once-world-renowned vampire series has come to an end, and in 2018 there was news to make a sequel, but there was no news of the start.
Tales of the Night has many successes as a vampire film, such as the setting of vampires and werewolves that are no longer limited to European literature and legends; the performance of werewolves is to wear special costumes and special effects.
But if "Legend of the Night" was most successful, of course, it was to make the "English Rose" fully armed and wear sharp teeth, transforming into a world-renowned "vampire queen", a classic image on the screen that made Kate Beckinsale a goddess in the hearts of countless people.
If Kate Beckinsale said " Please call me Lord Queen " , unable to refute it , obediently bowed her head ...