Rise: Blood Hunter
(2007)
I bought this DVD because it featured Lucy Lui naked. That was the
extent of my expectations, although I hoped since it was a vampire
movie maybe there would be some sex-and-violence action. It met my
minimum expectations.
In a nutshell, what happens is this: Lucy Lui plays intrepid
investigative reporter Sadie Blake, who stumbles onto a society of
vampires. They kidnap her and turn her into a vampire, giving her what
they consider to be the gift of immortality. She is the very epitome of
ungrateful and tracks them down and kills them. Well, the head one
anyway, although there is collateral damage. As is my new normal review
method, I will mainly be hitting the GIMP bits, because that's why
you're reading this after all.
The movie starts out incredibly well, but sadly goes downhill. We are
in a bar and pretty blond Collette (Cameron Richardson) tries to get a
guy to pay her for sex. Sadie walks in, busts the guy for being
married, and tells Collette that she would like to take her home
instead. She lays out five $100 bills. They drive back to a mansion and
go upstairs to the bedroom. Sadie commands Collette to strip all the
way, but Collette only gets down to her panties, garter belt and
nylons. Sadie tells her to wash her hands, and that the soap is in the
shower. When Collette picks up the soap, it triggers the heavy shower
head to fall and knocks her out.
Collette is hanging upside down in the shower, hands bound behind her
back, ankles tied together, with tape over her mouth. A creepy old guy
rolls up in a wheelchair and eyes upside down and almost naked Collette
and tells Sadie she did well. Sadie asks for "the address," the guy
puts her off, she insists, the guy gives her an address and Sadie walks
out. The guy sits there watching Collette struggle.
Sadie walks back in and shoots the guy with a small crossbow. She
releases the girl, tells her to find another line of work and never to
tell anyone what happened to her. Like that's going to happen.
There's a lot of jumping back and forth in this movie, and the next
good scene we get is Sadie, waking up dead in the morgue. Here's our
first Lucy Lui nudity, although it could have been more revealing. She
wakes up in a morgue drawer and kicks her way out.
Our next good sequence of events tells the tale of Sadie's demise. She
is kidnapped, hands bound behind her back, and tossed into a back seat.
She is taken to the mansion we saw in the opening GIMP scene. She is
plopped down in a chair and questioned. Her answers are found wanting.
She is taken upstairs and plopped down on a plastic covered bed.
Nothing good will happen to you when you find yourself on a plastic
covered bed. You can take that to the bank. Sure enough, the bad guy,
Bishop, and his girlfriend-or-wife, fellow vampire Eve (played by the
sexy Carla Gugino, who does not get naked at all, much to my
disappointment) surround sexy Sadie and try to tell her this is going
to be a good thing. Sadie is
unconvinced. Bishop hits her, knocking her back on the bed and stunning
her. Bishop can't decide whether he wants to kill her first or fuck her
first. Eve says kill her. Bishop takes a small knife and slices her
jugular. They hold her down as Sadie screams and thrashes her feet,
until she loses strength. Then they drink her blood.
By the way, just as an aside, although it is probably not visible,
Sadie's face is covered in sweat in that first picture below, which is
so hot. I love sweat-covered helpless soon-to-be victims.
Bishop undresses her and fucks her, although we don't get to see
anything. Eve takes her turn with Sadie as well, which provides us with
our only nudity in this entire scene. And that's just a blood-covered
boob.
Stuff happens. Sadie crosses paths with a detective who doesn't know
what to make of her but to show he's a Real Man, he shoots her in the
back. Twice. Because cops masquerading as Real Men shoot unarmed women
in the back. To show he's sorry he ends up removing the bullets and
then handcuffing her to the bed. What a guy. (I didn't much like this
character, if that's not clear.)
When Sadie finally convinces him that she will lead him to Bishop
(where the detective expects to find his daughter, in a subplot that is
fairly boring), he lets her go. They go to the warehouse where Bishop
is. There are naked people hanging upside down in this place.
Foreshadowing, no doubt, as Sadie ends up naked and hanging upside down
in a poorly lighted but nonetheless nice GIMP scene. Bishop talks to
her briefly, then positions a bowl underneath her and slashes her
jugular again. He walks away as she bleeds out.
The detective finds her. We still don't get to see a full-length upside
down nude shot of Sadie, but there's a nice bit or two as he cuts her
hands free and they fall down, then he lifts her bound feet off of a
hook and lays her down. Then he covers her up. Damn.
That's it for nudity and GIMP. The movie plays out as Bishop gets his
and Sadie kicks her way out of a morgue drawer. Again.
SUMMARY: Pretty blond Collette
strips topless, is bonked on the head and wakes up bound hands behind
her back, upside down, and tape gagged, but she is eventually released.
Sadie is kidnapped, hands bound behind her back, stunned by a blow to
the head, has her throat cut and two vampires take turns drinking her.
Then she is undressed (we don't see anything) and fucked in a shot so
brief and unsatisfying that it did not even rate a vidcap. She is
handcuffed to a bed. She is hung naked and bound upside down and her
throat is slashed once again, but she is rescued in a scene notable for
showing more of her bondage and nudity.
This movie is not bad, although it is notable for starring a lot of
"name' actors and actresses who sleepwalk through their roles. It
features extraordinary GIMP set ups but does not deliver. Hot naked
gagged blond hanging upside down? Awesome. Then she's released without
being whipped or anything? Letdown. Hot Asian chick on a plastic
covered bed surrounded by two good-looking vampires, one of whom can't
decide whether to kill her and then fuck her or fuck her and then kill
her? Sweet. Brief glimpses alternating with blackouts, close-ups of
just her face, hand and feet, but no full-length shots? Epic Fail.
Shots of her clothes being removed and then getting fucked? I love the
concept. No nudity and no actual shot of her getting fucked? I am
disappointed in the execution. Hot Asian chick hanging naked, bound and
upside down? Who could not love that? Poorly lighted scene with no
full-length shot and nothing of consequence happens to her? I hate
that. This gets a D+ GIMP rating. Nice
set-up, hot chicks, but poor lighting and no follow-through.
This is the "Unrated, Undead" version of the movie, but I am so
unimpressed that I refuse to watch the "Rated, Dead" version to
highlight the differences. Probably nudity and bondage, since there was
no sex to speak of in this version and I can't imagine they would add
that to the "Rated" version. You can find this on Amazon
for $9.99.
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