Blood - The Last Vampire (DVD)

...through "a distension of their blood vessels", (www.bloodthemovie.com). The Chiropterans survive by drinking human blood. Saya works for a mysterious organisation who hunt down and kill these demons. They seem to desperately need Saya but she displays no loyalty to them or anyone for that matter. It is set mostly on an American air force base in Japan in 1966, (a year after the start of the Vietnam War), in a school for the children of the American ...
...split into 8 scenes = Blood on the tracks / Base threats / The feast of Samhain / Improv / Dance with the Devil / Line Trap / RH factor and credits, (the credits at the end are all in Japanese). The Making Of: This is in Japanese with subtitles. I have to admit I did not watch the whole thing as I just couldn't keep it up. It seemed like the production crew chatting about ideas they had and the original premise for the film. It is beautifully directed ...

donnabroom 01.03.2006 · Read full review
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...the genre a little closer. Blood - The Last Vampire was the next DVD I bought. A manga animation, Blood is a curious film set in 1966, just before the Vietnam war started. Events focus around the young, mysterious girl Saya, who we first see travelling on an underground train, staring peacefully into space. Things begin to get a little more interesting however when she slaughters the other passenger in her carridge with her not particularly well-hidden ...
...in the viewers head. Blood - The Last Vampire has oodles of potential, but almost all of it's short-comings stem from it being an extremely short film, lasting just 42 minutes before the end credits role. Lots of questions are left relatively or completely unanswered - how exactly the demons came about, what eventually happens to them, why they even appeared in the first place...You are left in the dark as to these questions and many of the characters ...

tom1clare 16.08.2003 · Read full review
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There's only one reason why I haven't given this film the maximum score. The animation is stunning, the atmosphere created is superb, and, although the storyline isn't the best I've ever seen, it's still engrossing and held my attention right until the end of the film. However, the film is extremely short - at only 45 minutes including credits it's barely half the length of most films. As a result it feels like the first couple of episodes of a longer ...
...roll. More character development would have strengthened the film, as well some more background to the story. Blood: The Last Vampire is an anime film - a Japanese-style of cartoon. Don't let that fool you into thinking it's aimed at children though; there are anime films of all genres and aimed at all ages. This film has a 15 certificate, which in my opinion is about right - it's a horror film with a fair amount of blood, and so is not suitable ...

ironfrost 06.08.2002 · Read full review
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...irrelevant searches ] Blood for me was one of those films you pick up because you're in town, it's cheap, and you have no sense of control. Five minutes and seven pounds later, you own another DVD to cram somewhere onto your bulging film shelf. I'm not sure to this day why I picked it up; I have a loathing of vampires that borders on the maniacal and yet, when I secluded myself in my favourite armchair with a few snacks and a drink, I was captured ...
...times. Drama strikes though, and Blood is only 45 minutes long, which should honestly be a crime in this civilised world. I quite happily would have watched for another 45 minutes; another hour, another two hours. I might even have watched for the rest of my life if someone hooked me up to a Galaxy chocolate IV drip. The 'special effects', or in this case the animation was simply top-notch, second to none. Appleseed and Final Fantasy: The Spirits ...

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