Rise: Blood Hunter

Plot

Supernatural thriller in which a female reporter wakes up in a morgue to find herself a member of the undead. She vows revenge against the sect that put her there and hunts them down.

Release Year: 2007

Rating: 5.0/10 (7,313 voted)

Director:
Sebastian Gutierrez

Stars: Lucy Liu, Michael Chiklis, Carla Gugino

Storyline
The snoopy reporter Sadie Blake is called by her nerd colleague Ethan Mills that has deciphered a code and found an address in Koreatown from information of the Goth Tricia Rawlins about a bloody cult. Sadie does not give attention to Ethan, but when she sees on the front page of the news that Tricia has been found dead in a dumpster in Koreatown, she decides to visit the address. She finds an abandoned house with a gruesome basement full of blood and she immediately drives to Ethan's apartment. She finds the place in a complete mess and is abducted by a stranger and taken to Bishop, who wants to know what Tricia has told her. Then, Bishop and his mate Eve kill Sadie and they have a necrophilic threesome with her body. Later, Sadie awakes in the freezer of the morgue and sooner she realizes that she is a vampire and promises revenge to her sire.

Cast:

Robert Forster
–

Lloyd

Cameron Richardson
–

Collette

Lucy Liu
–

Sadie Blake

Allan Rich
–

Harrison

Samantha Shelton
–

LA Weekly Editor

Kevin Wheatley
–

Ethan Mills

Margo Harshman
–

Tricia Rawlins

Cameron Goodman
–

Kaitlin

Holt McCallany
–

Rourke

James D'Arcy
–

Bishop

Carla Gugino
–

Eve

Michael Chiklis
–

Clyde Rawlins

Paul Cassell
–

Detective Easton

Mako
–

Poe

Sam Cooper
–

Coroner's Assistant

Taglines:
They didn't leave her alive. They left her UNDEAD.

Details

Official Website:
Paramount Pictures [France] |
Sony Pictures [United States] |

Release Date: 6 July 2007

Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA

Opening Weekend: $59,371
(USA)
(3 June 2007)
(63 Screens)

Gross: $106,398
(USA)
(10 June 2007)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min
 |
122 min
(unrated DVD version)

Did You Know?

Trivia:

The word 'vampire' is never spoken during the film.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes:
After Sadie has sent Franny away she leans against the door. Her reflection is clearly visible in the glass, despite the fact that her lack of a reflection (due to being a vampire) is an important point in the movie.

Quotes:

Bishop:
You're one of us.

Sadie Blake:
Not by choice.

User Review

2 different Movies, really

Rating: 8/10

Okay. First the good news: Lucy Liu is sexy and really emotional in
this. Her acting chops finally come into play in a movie where she
isn't just tough or bitchy. The woman is a really good actress. Most of
the rest of the cast is really good, especially Carla Gugino and James
d'Arcy (American haunting). A few scenes are standouts, particularly a
nasty bit of business in a junkie shelter and a very very
claustrophobic scene inside a morgue drawer. Now the bad news: Nick
Lachey is in this for some incomprehensible reason and it REALLY snaps
you out of the story. When will Hollywood learn that goofy cameos don't
belong in horror? You're watching a perfectly cool creepy thriller when
suddenly the audience gasps at ridiculous casting choices that have
NOTHING to do with the story.

That, as well as some cheap attempts at "jumpscares" slightly spoil
what is basically the antidote to Blade, Underworld and the rest of the
goofy vampire pics of late. The treatment here is much more based on
pain and grounded in reality.

Definitely worth checking out for fans of vampire fiction.