12/17/2023 0 Comments New world infinite blood lust![]() Fitting, since it's adapted from the third novel, Demon Deathchase. Charlotte's father also took to hiring vampire hunting team the Markus Brothers, whose ranks ironically include female hunter Leila, so D has to compete with them as well as take on Meier's many guardians and the hazards of the journey itself.Īfter this brief setup, the movie is essentially one long chase sequence. In this adventure, D is hired by the rich father of Charlotte, a maiden who was kidnapped in the night by one of the last powerful vampire nobles, Baron Meier Link. By the start of the movie, the tide has turned, vampires are going the way of the dinosaur, and the world just seems empty and wounded. Half-human, half-vampire dunpeal (A mistranslation of the word dhampir) D is a stoic, imposing bounty hunter who rides a black, robotic horse through the post-apocalyptic wasteland ripped apart by creatures of the night that took over the world at some point (The movie never tells you this, but it's circa 12,000 AD, FYI). ![]() While not as good as Fury Road with its plot getting bottlenecked with unnecessary foreshadowing and too much talking, it's still a testament that this movie not only holds up nearly 15 years after its release in a medium that often is not kind to time, but is equal or superior to most of its contemporaries. Intended on being released in American theaters with the English dub as its original language track, 2001's Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is comparable to Mad Max Fury Road as a gorgeous entry to an old property that manages to sustain admirable drama within a work that's at its core a pure action movie. Twelve years after the release of the OAV, fan interest, the original novel series author Hideyuki Kikuchi's desire to see a more extravagant adaptation of his work, and other factors led to studio Madhouse starting production with a Vampire Hunter D motion picture directed by the legend Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Who'd already adapted some of Kikuchi's other work with Wicked City). In fact, similar to the Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing vampire movies that inspired the author of the original Vampire Hunter D novel series to write them in the first place. It has to be doing something right if it got re-issued after 30 years.īut that's not what we're talking about here. It felt like the old B-movies that only had enough money to film for two weeks, but somehow did enough solid work all around to make up for its shortcomings. The animation was occasionally lacking, the main character is not showing up the Dos Equis guy any time soon, and its post-apocalyptic world was limited. Adding in a couple viewings of the unedited version with the world's most "meh" gratuitous shower scene, and it's mostly something I can't really separate from my adolescent nostalgia. In my days of skipping optional cross country practice to watch Sci-Fi Channel's Saturday Morning Anime and laughing way too hard at the sales department pairing My Buddy ads with Akira, I must've watched the Vampire Hunter D OAV about a dozen times. ![]()
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