Jack Crow

John "Jack" Crow is the main protagonist in the 1998 horror film Vampires (also known as John Carpenter's Vampires). It was adapted from the novel Vampire$ by John Steakley. 
He is portrayed by , who voiced himself in the episode of The Simpsons entitled Homer and Apu and voiced himself in some of the episodes of Family Guy.
Jack Crow when he was a boy, lost his parents to vampires and later on would become a vampire hunter and hunt down vampires. Jack Crow would lead a team of Vatican-sponsored vampire hunters rids an abandoned house of vampires in the middle of New Mexico during a daylight raid. The team coordinates their attacks, using submachine gun fire to slow the vampires down followed by harpooning them with battle pikes; Crow finished each using a modified crossbow to spear the vampires within the house so that a mechanical winch can pull them outside into the daylight where they burst into flames. The house is the largest nest the team has ever encountered, with nine 'goons' (vampire soldiers); however, Jack is concerned that they did not find a 'master' (an older, more powerful vampire) within. Later, the team celebrates at a local hotel with drinking and prostitutes, to the disapproval of the local sheriff and the priest assigned to the team. Crow is unable to celebrate and shares his concerns about the missing master with the priest. During the height of the party, the master vampire, Valek, arrives and 'turns' one of the prostitutes, Katrina, by biting her and initiating her transformation into a vampire. He then attacks the party, swiftly murdering the hunters present, with only Crow, his trusted lieutenant, Tony Montoya, and Katrina escaping.
Crow orders Montoya to retreat to a hotel with Katrina, hoping to use her growing psychic link with Valek to track him down. After burying the team and burning down the hotel, Crow reports to his superior Cardinal Alba. Given that Valek is both stronger and more durable than any master previously encountered, Alba confirms that Valek was a disgraced priest who led a rebellion against the church, leading to his execution and transformation into the first Vampire. Alba instructs him to form a new team, as Valek has slaughtered the other US and European-based vampire hunters and has Father Adam Guiteau accompany him. Crow reluctantly takes Guiteau with him but refuses to form a new team as Valek is on the move. En route, Crow dispels Guiteau's heroic notions of vampire hunting, but extends some trust by disclosing his map of vampire activity, showing that the vampires are searching the southwest.
Montoya explains to the gradually changing Katrina what is happening to her. Horrified, she attempts to commit suicide, but Montoya rescues her, being bitten by her in the process. Crow and Guiteau arrive at the hotel, and Montoya keeps his bite wound a secret. Sensing that Guiteau is hiding something, Crow threatens to kill him, recounting that he had been forced to kill his own father for 'keeping a secret' after he had transformed into a vampire and killed Jack’s mother in front of him. Guiteau reveals that Valek is seeking an ancient relic called the "Black Cross of Béziers" to complete the botched exorcism that transformed him into a vampire. Valek now plans to complete the exorcism and give himself immunity to sunlight, making him unstoppable. Crow then welcomes Guiteau to the team as his first new slayer.
Using Katrina's psychic link, Jack, Montoya and Guiteau find out that Valek has seized the cross and they arrive at an abandoned Spanish town. Based on Katrina's visions, they realize they are badly outnumbered, since Valek has roused seven additional masters and transformed at least thirty of the townspeople into new goons, creating the largest nest in history. Guiteau proves himself to the team by volunteering as 'bait' to trap master vampires for Jack and Montoya to harpoon into sunlight, earning Jack's respect by learning quickly and helping him fight hand-to-hand with several masters. While they manage to kill most of Valek's lieutenants, Valek overwhelms them at sundown; Crow is captured, Guiteau takes cover, and Montoya and Katrina flee, only for her to fully turn and bite Montoya on the throat. Valek explains that he is attempting to recreate the original ritual, which requires the blood of a crusader, Jack, and the participation of a priest. Cardinal Alba steps forward and reveals that he was the mole, having lost his faith and gained a fear of death in his aging state; he believes that once Valek completes the ritual, he will be able to turn him into a new breed of vampire. Guiteau kills Alba before he can finish the ritual and holds off the horde by threatening suicide and leaving Valek without a priest to complete the ritual. Montoya and Guiteau then rescue Crow as the sun rises, and Crow heads off to confront Valek, whom he kills by ramming the Berziers cross into his chest and exposing him to sunlight, which causes Valek to explode.
Guiteau and Crow prepare to slay Montoya and Katrina, knowing that their transformations are irreversible; however, since Montoya gave him two days of loyalty after being bitten, Crow grants the pair a two-day head start before he resumes hunting them. After Montoya and Katrina leave, Jack and Guiteau head off once again to kill the rest of the vampires that made it to shelter.
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