Rise: Blood Hunter


Rise Blood Hunter is a 2007 neonoir actionhorror film written and directed by Sebastian Gutierrez. The film stars Lucy Liu and Michael Chiklis a supernatural thriller about a reporter Liu who wakes up in a morgue to discover she is now a vampire. She vows revenge against the vampire cult responsible for her situation and hunts them down one by one. Chiklis plays Rawlins, a haunted police detective whose daughter is victimized by the same group and seeks answers for her gruesome death.

To her surprise, Sadie abruptly awakes inside the cold box of a morgue. She escapes, but in the course of the following hours she finds to her horror that she has turned into a vampire herself. After wandering the streets she ends up in a homeless shelter where she soon gives in to temptation and kills an old sick man and begins to drink his blood. She then runs out of the shelter when a young girl notices her causing her to break down. She attempts suicide by throwing herself off a bridge, but is found and taken in by fellow vampire Arturo who is less bloodthirsty and more benevolent than his brethren. Though his true motives are unclear a power struggle between Arturo and the leader of Sadies killers, Bishop, is mentioned he helps Sadie to cope with her new condition and trains her to fight when she announces her intent to get revenge on her murderers.Sadie tracks the vampires across the state, killing them one by one, while at the same time fighting the urge to consume blood from human victims. She soon crosses paths with Detective Clyde Rawlins, Tricias father, who has taken upon himself to avenge his daughters death despite the objections of his superiors and colleagues. At first he takes Sadie for an enemy, but in time he recognizes that she is not of the same breed as Tricias killers, and they team up in their pursuit of Bishop, the last survivor of the band. They track him to an abandoned stable complex, where they find not only Bishop but also Tricia, now a vampire, who now openly voices her resentment and anger for her father. A hard fight ensues in which the evil vampires temporarily gain the upper hand. Along with two other women, Sadie is stripped naked and suspended by her ankles, with her wrists bound behind her back, to slowly drip blood. She is saved by Rawlins. The pair then turn the table against their enemies. ........

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