Before Blade, there was Omega Man.
Biological war has decimated life on Earth. Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville tools his convertible through sunlit streets foraging for supplies.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067525/
5hrs 33 min into Day 2 of the Grand-Jury: Historical Background presentations.
This was in the live chat, see pic.
Here is the DLive stream: https://dlive.tv/CoronaInvestigative
or, pic it up from here : https://grand-jury.net/
Correct. I looked a little deeper and Blade is a creation all of it's own it seems. I remembered watching Omega Man and it left a big enough empression I just associated it with all the vampire, biological event movies! Thanks for catching me up!