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Rise: Blood Hunter
Credits
Title: Rise: Blood Hunter
Directed by: Sebastian Gutierrez
Written by: Sebastian Gutierrez
Produced by: Aubrey Henderson; Nathan Kahane; Carsten H.W. Lorenz; Sam Raimi; Greg Shapiro; Robert G. Tapert
Music by: Nathan Barr
Cinematography: John Toll
Edited by: Lisa Bromwell; Robb Sullivan
Production
Distributors: Ghost House Pictures
Mandate Pictures
Released: April 28th, 2007
Rating: R
Running time: 97 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
Gross: $106,398
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Rise: Blood Hunter is an American horror film of the vampire genre. It was written and directed by Sebastian Gutierrez and produced by Mandate Pictures and Ghost House Pictures. 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. The movie stars Lucy Liu as reporter-turned-vampire Sadie Blake as well as Michale Chiklis as the haunted alcoholic detective Clyde Rawlins. 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. Other cast members include Robert Forster, Allan Rich, Samantha Shelton, Cameron Goodman and Holt McCallany.

Plot[]

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. 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. 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.

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Notes & Trivia[]

Sadie Blake

Lucy Liu as Sadie Blake.

  • This film is alternatively known as just Rise.
  • Taglines for this film include, "They didn't leave her alive. They left her undead" and "Seduce", "Trap", "Feast".
  • This is the second horror film directed by Sebastian Gutierrez and his fourth as a writer. He also directed the 2001 movie The Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature. As a writer, he has also worked on the 2003 supernatural thriller Gothika starring Halle Berry. In 2006, he was co-writer on the movie Snakes on a Plane starring Samuel L. Jackson. Sebastian also wrote the screenplay for the remake of the Japanese movie The Eye.
  • This is the first horror film work for actress Lucy Liu. She is a well known actress of both film and television having also starred in the Charlie's Angels film series, Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and the TV series Elementary.
  • Actor Michael Chiklis is best known for playing the role of Detective Vic Mackey on the crime drama series The Shield. He also played Ben Grimm, aka, the Thing in the two Fantastic Four feature films, as well super strong-man Jim Powell on No Ordinary Family and 1960s mob boss Vince Savino on the short-lived ABC series Vegas.

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Films by Ghost House Pictures[]

Vampire films

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