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Rise: Blood Hunter (2006)

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A woman who joins the undead against her will seeks vengeance against the ghouls who transformed her in this thriller. Sadie Blake (Lucy Liu) is a journalist who becomes acquainted with a group of beautiful but doomstruck partiers while following a story, led by the charismatic Bishop (James D'Arcy). While Sadie is taken with Bishop's good looks and sinister charm, she senses there's something dangerous about him, but it's not until she wakes up in the city morgue that she learns his secret --

R, 1 hr. 38 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Horror

Directed By: Sebastian Gutierrez

Written By: Sebastian Gutierrez

In Theaters: Jun 1, 2007 Wide

On DVD: Oct 9, 2007

Box Office:$59.4k

IDP Distribution

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Critic Reviews for Rise: Blood Hunter

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Many scenes are set in dark parking lots and dirty city streets, but you sense the locations were chosen because they were inexpensive. There is some pleasure to be had counting continuity mistakes.

June 7, 2007 Comment

Colin Covert

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Top Critic

[Director] Gutierrez sustains a heightened mood of sex and violence that, without breaking new ground, entertains in the way Gothic flicks do: a combination of cheap thrills and a good old-fashioned crusade against evil.

June 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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Kamal Al-Solaylee

Globe and Mail

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You can thank a capable cast led by the estimable Lucy Liu, and work by writer/director Sebastian Gutierrez that succeeds in making the formulaic seem fresh.

June 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Peter Howell

Toronto Star

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Lucy Liu is always welcome on my screen, an actress who marries intelligence with feminine mystique, bundled with a dry wit and the ability to make action roles credible.

April 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile

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Urban Cinefile

Torturous vampire bloodbath is a waste for all.

October 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Renee Schonfeld

Common Sense Media

A tedious Blade rip-off. No suspense or scares, but lots of boredom.

October 19, 2007 Comment

Chuck O'Leary

FulvueDrive-in.com

While Rise: Blood Hunter isn't a terrible film, it's a predictable one.

October 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Keith Breese

Filmcritic.com

far from perfect, but it's better than most direct-to-video horror you'll find out there. Heck, it's better than some of the theatrical releases we've seen this year

October 9, 2007 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures

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Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

...a far more effective piece of work than one might've expected...

September 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

It's a blood-red affair thrown together in a dash, a little number that will ultimately get the same kind of treatment from audiences as it did from those who made it: something you might cue up in the DVD player on a whim and forget just as easily.

June 22, 2007 Full Review Source: IGN Movies

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Scott Collura

IGN Movies

A dry and dreary little affair, one that's almost shamefully beholden to B-flicks that are a lot more energetic and a lot less intent on being taken so seriously.

June 11, 2007 Full Review Source: FEARnet

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Scott Weinberg

FEARnet

Rise is middling, but not by doing things the wrong way. It's not wild enough.

June 4, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Mark Palermo

Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Mix Blade, a dash of Point Blank, and one of the worst movies you could imagine, and that's pretty close to capturing the experience of viewing Rise: Blood Hunter.

June 2, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Brian Orndorf

eFilmCritic.com

There are worse things than waking up in a morgue. Like, say, waking up and realizing there's another hour of Rise: Blood Hunter to go.

June 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies

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Kevin Williamson

Jam! Movies

I wasn't expecting much from director/writer Sebastian Gutierrez, considering his last writing effort was the dismal "Snakes on a Plane." But in "Rise: Blood Hunter" he offers absolutely nothing new in terms of vampire stories if not a lush noirish atmosp

June 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca

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Angela Baldassarre

Sympatico.ca Source: Sympatico.ca

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Rise is fun trash. It's nothing amazing, but totally watchable if you're in the mood for a erotic vampire detective noir. Also watch for the Marilyn Manson & Robert Forester cameos. Did I mention it's shot by John Toll. Yes that John Toll.

June 18, 2007

Ken Stachnik

Super Reviewer

I'll be quite brief in this review for I feel that this movie fails to provide good scares and a good story. First off, Lucy Liu is plainly a bad actress. She can't act. This movie still proves that. I'd figured she'd retire after the lame Charlie's Angels movies. Anyways, getting back to this film, the movie is full

August 9, 2010