Rise: Blood Hunter

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Cast & Crew

Lucy Liu
Sadie

Michael Chiklis
Detective Rawlins

Carla Gugino
Eve

James D'Arcy
Bishop

Robert Forster
Lloyd

Cameron Goodman
Kaitlin

Margo Harshman
Trisha

Nick Lachey
Dwayne

Marilyn Manson
Bartender

Julio Oscar Mechoso
Arturo

Samaire Armstrong
Jenny

Allan Rich
Mr. Harrison

Cameron Richardson
Collette

Sebastian Gutierrez
Director

Sebastian Gutierrez
Writer

Greg Shapiro
Producer

Carsten H.W. Lorenz
Executive Producer

Rob Tapert
Executive Producer

Joseph Drake
Executive Producer

Nathan Kahane
Executive Producer

John Toll
Cinematographer

Jerry Fleming
Production Design

Denise Wingate
Costume Design

Lisa Bromwell
Film Editing

Nathan Barr
Original Music

Austin Gorg
Art Director

Nancy Nayor
Casting

Kelly Wagner
Casting

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Audience Reviews for Rise: Blood Hunter

• Jan 02, 2018

  Lucy Liu is out for revenge in the vampire horror film Rise: Blood Hunter. When investigative reporter Sadie Blake stumbles upon a clan of vampires they brutally kill her, but she comes back as a vampire and is intent on destroying them; meanwhile a cop desperately searches for the fiend that murdered his daughter, unaware that it's the same vampire clan that Sadie's hunting. Liu gives a fairly good performance and is backed by a solid supporting cast that includes Michael Chiklis and Carla Gugino. Additionally, the film doesn't hold back on the gore and violence of the vampire attacks. But the storytelling is rather weak and doesn't do a lot of character and plot development. Yet while it's a little thin, Rise: Blood Hunter is a frightening and gritty revenge tale.
  Dann M Super Reviewer
• Sep 30, 2015

  A reporter (Lucy Liu) pursues the peculiar death of a teenage girl that both her publisher and the police refuse to investigate further. This is a pretty good vampire movie with sufficient doses of skin and blood, but I was most arrested by Liu in her best movie performance - it's true! She convincingly conveys the horrifying self-realization of what it would be like to join the ranks of the undead, which is an interesting angle you rarely find in vamp flicks. After coming to grips with her accursed fate, she sets out to destroy the nest of vampires that turned her so they cannot take another soul, and along the way becomes aligned with a renegade vampire hunter who helps her adjust and the dead girl's father who happens to be a cop. The biggest drawback is the very choppy flow to the movie - too many scenes seem rushed and bump into each other without enough explanation. I would like to see the unrated DVD version which is 22 minutes longer (twenty-two!) which I feel would flesh out, so to speak, the overall story.
  Doctor S Super Reviewer
• Jun 27, 2012

  I like Lucy Liu, but the whole "good vampire" spiel has been done before, and better.
  Marcus W Super Reviewer
• Aug 09, 2010

  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 of flaws, the dialogue between the characters is completely utter garbage and the plot borrows alot of from the Blade franchise, which in my opinion was terrible. On a high note on this film, Marilyn Manson makes a cameo as a bartender. Which I found was amusing to see. At least he was better than Lucy Liu, and he had less than 5 minutes on screen. I thought the movie was bad and with Lucy liu attempting the Buffy the vampire slayer routine; it just didn't work.
  Alex r Super Reviewer