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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 90178
Released: October 9, 2007 |
| Our Price: $2.39 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A FEMALE REPORTER WAKES UP IN A MORGUE TO FIND HERSELF A MEMBER OF THE UNDEAD. TRYING DESPERATELY TO FIGHT OFF HER THIRST,SADIE PROWLS THE DARK CITY STREETS, ARMED WITH A CROSSBOW & HELL-BENT ON SLAYING THE TWISTED VAMPIRES THAT MADE HER THISWAY.
Description of Rise - Blood Hunter:
Sadie Blake (Lucy Liu) dies and comes backs to life several times in Rise—Blood Hunter, which gives this revenge tale impetus to continue perhaps longer than it needs to. At over two hours long, this film, written and directed by Sebastian Gutierrez (Snakes on A Plane), is beautifully filmed and acted at times but drags due to the drawn out story of a LA Weekly reporter who seeks revenge on her murderer, the vampire head of an underground blood-sucking cult. This handsome monster, Bishop (James D'Arcy), charms women, kidnaps them, and slits their throats with his claw-shaped necklace, stumping the entire LAPD minus Clyde Rawline (Michael Chilkis), a hard-drinking policeman who eventually teams up with Blake to hunt and destroy the vampiric ringleader. The scenes depicting initial doses of violence, like when Blake wakes up in a metal casket at the morgue, or when she's originally killed in Bishop's bed, covered in black trash bags to avoid bloodstains, feature crisp film footage awash in blue and red, setting a semi-poetic mood. Mostly, Rise—Blood Hunter operates on the vampire tales' conflation of sex and death, taking a sexy tone throughout, especially when Sadie or her fellow vampire, Collette (Cameron Richardson), feast on blood then strip off their sullied clothing. Blake's vengeance underpins her rebellious attitude, as she shoots her crossbow at each person she meets on the trail to Bishop. Though Rise—Blood Hunter is not a classic in the genre, it is enticing to add Lucy Liu to the list of gorgeous vampire slayers. —Trinie Dalton
Rise - Blood Hunter Reviews:
David Lynch meets Clive Barker meets Anne Rice. 
2009-10-10 - It's a very well acted horror movie that is in the style of Lynch, Barker, and Rice movies. The movie is slow paced, atmospheric, shadowy, and often bloody. The action and violence comes in brief spurts.
The plot is a little convoluted at first but that is what made the movie so spooky. The suspense, dark brooding cinematography, and movie score are brilliant.
The plot includes Lucy Liu rising from the tomb and seeking vengeance on the merciless vampires that turned her into one. In the process she saves victims and becomes involved with a police officer that lost his daughter to one of the vampires.
Very good movie. It is recommended but it is not for the squeamish. A-
Lucy Liu makes a very attractive looking corpse. 
2009-09-28 - Lucy Liu makes a very attractive looking corpse. Unfortunately, her dainty, kick-ass hotness isn't enough to save Rise: Blood Hunter from its needlessly convoluted plot and holes in logic big enough to drive a bus through. The film is dark and gritty, everything washed in shadows and blues to remind us that we are now in no man's land where vampires are sadistic but not quite equipped to deal with their cravings, fangless as they are. The vampires make an appropriately bloody mess of their meals, leaving body parts strewn across crime scenes, aided by various accoutrement to make up for what nature failed to give them.
Rise: Blood Hunter remains faithful to vampire lore only moderately, which really isn't such a problem, but the fact that the movie is bloody boring to boot makes it par for the course in the reinvention of the genre that seems underway. Everyone wants to shake things up, but go too far or not far enough.
Sadie Blake as our inquisitive girl reporter, happy-go-lucky and clueless about the darkest part of the city's underbelly goes from flowered skirts and denim jackets to a post-transformation ensemble of skin tight jeans and a cheeky haircut that shouts, I am a New Woman, Beware! Trained by a semi-mystic guru in the arts of killing vampires, Sadie dispatches her enemies (in this case the pack of fiends who turned her, so it's your standard revenge plot) with laughable ease. Michael Chiklis, our brave and emotionally wounded detective, gums up the works for her just a bit, but is almost a non-entity, popping up randomly and not doing much except pissing the other cops off.
There's a lot of unresolved plot elements, including the true motives of Sadie's benefactor, and fellow vampire, Arturo. But I suppose they're leaving all of that for a direct-to-DVD sequel seeing as how Sadie,begging to die and stabbed through the heart (we assume) with a silver crossbow bolt by Detective Rawlins busts out of the morgue for the second time just before the credits roll.
It's a pretty lame movie and watching it reminded me, AGAIN, of how much I hate the Sci-Fi channel these days. I still don't get the point of dropping a quality show like Farscape in favor of a string of bad movies and a couple of hours of WWE.
Movie Review
2009-09-22 - This is going to be the shortest review I have ever done!
This film was a ...................... sleeper. It is so awful that I can remember NOTHING from it and I have suffered through it twice!
Rise: Blood Hunter (Unrated/Undead Edition) 
2009-09-18 - Rise: Blood Hunter (Unrated Undead Edition)
I first caught a glimpse of this movie on the Sci-Fi Channel and I was intrigued. I purchased it from Amazon and for the most part enjoyed it. Lucy Liu was awesome as a modern day reporter that is turned into a Sexy Vampire out for revenge against the Vampires that turned her. Michael Chiklis (Fantastic 4, The Shield, & The Commish) was great as an alcholic, revenge seeking detective who's daughter get's turned by the same group.
The only problem I had was the filming jumped all over the place without any segue (Example: one minute Lucy is in the trunk of a car and without any rhyme or reason she is back in a bar. Then later on she is breaking oyt of the trunk).
It was still enjoyable as a Vampire Film.
I Love it for all the Wrong Reasons 'BD Review'
2009-06-07 - Pretentiously Arty and $lick enough this film has lofty aims and dreams of Lynch and Neo-Noir, A combination of Cop and Vampire films takes a slow but jerky path with lots of sexual focus in story, content and style. I mean it's a hot time in the vamp film tonight.
Blu-Ray ; UK BD all regions, DTS Master plus DTS and DD, 2hrs 2min Uncut
