I first told you about this Lucy Liu flick a few months back when we got that cool clip of her waking up in the morgue. I'm sure you'll remember if you think hard enough. Anyway, the film is finally ready for all of us to see and Sony tonight sent along the box art and the complete breakdown of all the goodies. This one will be worth checking out just to see Lucy Lu looking sexy. Here is the official press release for you to check out:
LUCY
LIU SEEKS REVENGE AFTER
WAKING
UP IN THE MORGUE AS A VAMPIRE IN
RISE:
BLOOD HUNTER
- Rated R and Unrated
Versions Arriving on DVD October 9 with Exclusive Bonus Features
Including Storyboard to Screen and Behind-The-Scenes Featurettes -
Culver
City, Calif. (August 6, 2007)
– The producers of The
Grudge present Rise:
Blood Hunter,
a terrifying new thriller starring Lucy Liu (Charlie’s
Angels, Kill Bill),
Michael Chiklis (Fantastic
4, TV’s “The
Shield”), Carla
Gugino (Sin City,
TV’s “Entourage”) and James D’Arcy (Exorcist:
The Beginning)
. Written and
directed by Sebastian Gutierrez (Gothika,
Snakes on a Plane),
Rise: Blood Hunter
premiered at the 2007
Tribeca Film Festival’s Midnight Screening. Liu stars as Sadie
Blake, an investigative reporter who makes a pact with detective
Clyde Rawlins, played by Chiklis, to seek revenge on a vampire cult
that is taking over the city of Los Angeles. The DVD contains
exclusive bonus features including four storyboard to screen
comparisons and four behind-the-scenes featurettes including
interviews with the Rise
talent and crew. This intense thriller is available in both rated and
unrated versions on DVD October 9 from Sony Pictures Home
Entertainment for an SRP of $24.96. The unrated version includes over
25 minutes of never-before-seen footage.
Synopsis
Rise: Blood
Hunter
Sadie
Blake (Liu) is a tenacious reporter who stumbles upon a dark
underground cult that is attracting the young Los Angeles in-crowd.
Lured by the promise of wild parties, these hipsters start turning up
dead, and when Sadie tries to get to the bottom of their grisly
murders, she falls prey to the mastermind behind all
the
gruesome murders. She awakens in a morgue, neither dead nor alive, a
vampire, consumed by an overwhelming craving for blood. Trying
desperately to fight off her thirst, Sadie prowls the dark city
streets, armed with a crossbow and hell-bent on slaying the horrific
vampires and their ring leader when she finds an unlikely ally in
Detective Clyde Rawlins (Chiklis), a police investigator distraught
over the loss of his only daughter to the cult. He crosses paths with
Sadie in his investigation, and the two are unstoppable until they’ve
exacted their revenge.
Rise:
Blood Hunter features
cameos by Robert Forster and many more. The rated version has a run
time of approximately 97
minutes and is rated R for
strong
horror violence and gore, sexuality, nudity, language, and brief drug
use. The unrated
version includes over 25 minutes of never-before-seen footage and has
a run time of approximately 122 minutes.
