![]() ![]() He also directed the 2001 movie The Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature. This is the second horror film directed by Sebastian Gutierrez and his fourth as a writer.Rise: Blood Hunter was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 16th, 2008 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.Rise: Blood Hunter closed out of theaters on June 14th, 2007.Production on Rise: Blood Hunter began on June 21st, 2005.They left her undead" and "Seduce", "Trap", "Feast". Taglines for this film include, "They didn't leave her alive.This film is alternatively known as just Rise.After awakening inside of a morgue, Sadie sets out to avenge her own death by taking apart Bishop's network one vampire at a time. Pressing forward, she learns that the mysterious man responsible is a vampire named Bishop who abducts Sadie and with the assistance of a female colleague named Eve, turns Sadie into a vampire. The premise of the movie focuses on a Los Angeles tabloid reporter named Sadie Blake, whose investigation into the workings of an underground subculture results in the death of a colleague. Other cast members include Robert Forster, Allan Rich, Samantha Shelton, Cameron Goodman and Holt McCallany. The film also stars James D'Arcy as the antagonist Bishop, Kevin Wheatley as Ethan Mills, Cameron Richardson as Collette, Carla Gugino as Eve and Mako as Poe. The movie stars Lucy Liu as reporter-turned-vampire Sadie Blake as well as Michale Chiklis as the haunted alcoholic detective Clyde Rawlins. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28th, 2007 and had limited theatrical release beginning on June 1st, 2007 and was in theaters for only fourteen days. It was written and directed by Sebastian Gutierrez and produced by Mandate Pictures and Ghost House Pictures. Rise: Blood Hunter is an American horror film of the vampire genre. No, this is almost all Liu, all the time, and since she’s really not that great of an actress, that’s kind of a bummer.Aubrey Henderson Nathan Kahane Carsten H.W. Not to mention how little Michael Chiklis, Carla Gugino, and Mako are in the film. Marilyn Manson and Robert Forster are one thing (actually, two), but Elden Henson? Holt McCallany? Zach Gilford? Simon Fucking Rex? According to the IMDb, Nick Lachey also shows up, but I can’t place him. The other thing that caught my attention was the ridiculous amount of one scene turns in the film by people who are relatively well-known, but aren’t quite yet in the cameo stage of their careers. I’ll just say, if the 97 minute version IS available, I urge you to stick with that, the added stuff can’t possibly have made the film any better. By my math, that would make the theatrical version a much more manageable 97 minutes, though I couldn’t care less about what was removed/added. 122 minutes for a movie with barely any plot other than what I described above? At first I was baffled by the claim that 25 minutes of never before seen footage was added to the film, since I thought it was direct to DVD, but apparently it played for a week or so last June (so, along with Fido, was I even fucking awake in June? Christ). Some flashbacks add a bit of brain work add muted interest to the proceedings, but it’s not enough to really make it stick out. Yes, the film offers precious little new to the genre: a female vampire (Lucy Liu) who doesn’t WANT to be a vampire begrudgingly teams up with a cop who thinks she’s just a killer in order to take out a group of bad guys. ![]() Far be it from me to be lazy (despite the fact that the only reason I rented the movie at all was because it was right next to another movie that I was renting called Rise Of The Dead). The differences are barely worth mentioning, but since I already wrote a Blood review, I guess I gotta write something. ![]() Have you seen Innocent Blood? Good, you’ve also seen Rise: Blood Hunter. ![]()
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