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.

To call this the best Ghost House film ain't saying much. After all, this is the same ripoff company that gave us Grudge 2, Boogeyman and Messengers. But Sam Raimi might finally be onto something here with this low budget sexed up version of Darkman.

If only they'd spend a little money on the ad campaign and lose the cheesy subtitle Bood Hunter! Lucy Liu is great! Funny and sad and really good at the action one liners. So is the very sinister and veddy British James D'Arcy but the incredible Carla Gugino is barely in the movie!!!! Why? Was her part cut down? Marilyn Manson proves he can actually act and the less said about Nick Lachey's cameo, the better. All in all, great sense of humor and dialogue add a lot to the suspense of the story.

Don't be put off by the lame artwork on the poster, RISE BLOOD HUNTER is a striking, unsettling moody thriller with really fine acting and cinematography (from Oscar winner John Toll) that has somehow been repackaged as an action movie (!) It's not. I read on Shock Til You Drop that this was originally a non linear vampire noir film, told mostly in flashbacks. And guess what? It shows!!! The movie has been rearranged chronologically and it becomes monotonous and not nearly as haunting as you can tell it was supposed to be. Where's the director's cut? Why the studios insist on dumbing horror down? Why is Nick Lachey in this movie? Why is it anytime someone tries to do something new, the studios try to turn it into the same crap we've all seen a million times? You'd think Sam Raimi would have a little more faith in his fans.