Hell hath no fury like a woman bitten by her vampire foes.
Rise: Blood Hunter
Lucy Liu, Michael Chiklis, Carla Gugino
We loved Uma Thurman in Kill Bill 1 and 2, drooled over la femme Nikita, and still have fantasies about Underworld’s Kate Beckinsale. In
Rise—which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, opened in a limited release a few weeks ago, and with any luck has made it to a theater
near you by now—Lucy Liu plays a reporter who runs afoul of a local vampire gang. When they deal with her by turning her into one of their
own, she goes medieval on their asses. Advance buzz says the plot is thin and the movie might just suck more than Dracula does, but we say,
What’s your point? It’s Lucy freakin’ Liu kicking the crap out of vampires and—according to clips that we can’t find online anymore—getting some
lesbian loving from Entourage’s Gugino.
By Barbara Rice Thompson
