I'm glad the movies didn't go with that outfit, but Stephen Dorff would've been terrifying in it.

I watched Night of the Hunter a week or two back, and even if you're not into older movies (it's from 1955) it holds up. Robert Mitchum plays Harry Powell, a 'preacher,' who's actually a serial killer, marrying for money and then killing his brides. He has "L-O-V-E" tattooed on the knuckles of one hand, and "H-A-T-E" on the other, a bit I know has been used elsewhere; but honestly the preacher outfit with the hat and string tie maybe scare me more. Somebody shows up wearing those, I'm out of there like they were wearing a hockey mask and bloody smock. I don't know if it's a callback to NotH, but the bad guy today has that outfit: probably would've looked evil and creepy without it, but it ices the cake! From 1995, Blade the Vampire Hunter #7, "Bad to the Bone" Written by Ian Edginton, pencils by Douglas H. Wheatley, inks by Steve Moncuse.

The bad guy in question is Deacon Frost, the vampire that attacked Blade's mom before he was born, making him what he was. Frost had been dead, possibly more than once, but here as he attacks Blade's friend Bible John, he explains how an amateur wizard accidentally brought him back, and how he was going to be a new god for vampires. Later, fighting Blade, Deacon says "the vampire race has become mired in the cliche of its own mythos," which seems remarkably forward-thinking for somebody dressed like that. He also doesn't appear to have the old weaknesses, and transforms into a bunch of rats after Blade stabs him through the heart. (Um, the technical term is a mischief of rats!) It's an impressive move; or at least it would've been before I saw this Oglaf strip.

For his part, this is a kinder, gentler Blade than usual: he appears to be trying to have a life outside of hunting vampires, maybe improve his work-life balance a bit. He takes care of the injured Bible John rather than chasing Deacon at all costs. But, taking John to the hospital was a tactical error, as they would probably throw John back in the asylum when he was better...! (Somehow vampires were not commonly known in the Marvel U. then, so someone devoting their life to their study and extermination probably did seem a nut.) Blade knows only one person can help him here, probably not his favorite person either: Morbius! 

I tried to look up, if Deacon Frost was ever portrayed consistently; because if he looked like that before turning into a vampire...Anyway, probably not, but Frost also had a weird doppelgänger-generation power, just to confuse the issue further.