The film is a wet dream for horror fans and features a very rich story full of things that go bump in the night. Overall, Vampire Hunter D is a film I wish I would have saw earlier in my life. Some are fun and very graphic while others are simple and pertaining to the story. There is also some high-octane kills that follow the story. You can still tell that the film was made in the 80s. The story takes these horror elements and tosses it into one hell of a fantasy adventure that is fun for adults and children alike.įinally, the animation is very dated but the transfer looks great and that makes the animation look a little better. We have vampires, dragons, werewolves, dhampires, giants, and so many more. This was one of the few cases that I actually read the book before seeing the film and I have to say that the film followed the book closely. When the scene is intense and calls for the character to be agitated, angry, or excited, the voice actor does not add that to their dialogue which ruins the impact of the scene itself. The dubbing of this film matches the movement of the animation to a decent bit but their tones are way off. The voice acting in this one is obviously not the original voice cast due to the film being Japanese in origin. With that being said, Vampire Hunter D works for me because the story is very direct. Too much imagination is needed for most of these animes to work and I just don’t have the imagination for it to work on me. Normal anime is just a little too far out there for me to really enjoy. D heals quickly and returns to the castle to save the girl and kill Lee and reveals that he is the son of Dracula.**Spoiler Alert** Meanwhile, the young girl is taken from her home and brought to Lee’s castle for the wedding. The following day D, the vampire hunter, visits Count Lee’s castle but things don’t work out for D and he is left for dead. That night Count Lee sends some mutants and his daughter to get his future wife. He agrees to help her and they return to her house where he meets her little brother. She then pleas one last time and he discovers she suffers from the vampire’s kiss. She gets him right where she wants him but it doesn’t last. She attempts to persuade him into helping her but her pleas fall on deaf ears. She finds a young man riding a cyborg horse on the road one day. He has to feed on her again in order to seal the deal so she searches for a vampire hunter to kill Lee before she becomes his forever. A young girl is hunting a dragon far from home when one of the Nobility, Count Magnus Lee, feeds on her and begins the ritual of making her his bride. Now, the small pockets of man have to fight off werewolves, mutants, dragons, and the Nobility. After the fall of man, the Nobility scientifically engineered creatures from myth and they roam the land. Now vampires, known as the Nobility, rule the world. The world forever changed after a nuclear war. **Spoiler Alert**The year is 12,090 AD and the world is in total darkness. I reached out and they were kind enough to send me a review copy of this magnificent film. Lucky for me, the film was recently released on blu. Since then that film on DVD goes up for around $70 which is something I can not bring myself to pay just for one DVD. However, while I was away at college my sister stole it, along with several other films, and sold them for I assume is drug money. I watched it several times over the next few days and absolutely loved it. I found the movie pretty cheap several years ago when I was in high school on DVD at Wal-Mart and picked it up. I read several of the books before giving the film a chance. The film is based on the stories with the same name and they are brilliantly written. With that being said, I fucking love the 1985 anime movie Vampire Hunter D. There is still several more out there I want to try before I write off anime for good but for the most part I am not a fan. Hell, I bought a few animes on DVD before hoping I would like them but I could not find it in me to enjoy them. I love cartoons from my youth along with several cartoons aimed towards adults that can mostly be found on Adult Swim but anime is just not my thing. I know a lot of people who get to love anime.
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