Blood: The Last Vampire

Finally, a sword-wielding vampire halfling that’s not part of the flogged-to-death Blade universe. Welsey Snipes is going to be pissed because the fresh-faced Korean starlet Gianna Jun, AKA Jeon Ji-hyun of My Sassy Girl fame, kicks Blade to the curb with her foe-whacking samurai skills. As a grumpy vampire hunter, Saya’s also hotter and she doesn’t resort to shooting up drugs to quell her bloodlust.

Born to a human father and a vampire mother, Saya looks like a pretty normal 17-year-old girl but she’s a self-hating 400-year old loner hell-bent on ridding the world of pesky vampires! An American military base in post-WWII Tokyo is plagued by an infestation of vampires and Saya is sent by the mysterious organisation Red Shield to exterminate the blood-sucking vermin.

Between slaughtering the undead inhabitants of the base in a series of elaborate showdowns, Saya begins her path to humanity when she form her first human friendship in centuries with the daughter of the military base’s general. When her superhuman powers had seemed her only means to defeat Onigen, the evil matriarch of all vampires, Saya learns that her newfound ability for human connection may be her greatest power.

Based on the popular Production I.G anime film from 2000 of the same name, Blood: The Last Vampire is produced by Academy-Award nominee Bill Kong (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Curse of the Golden Flower) and directed by noted French commercial and music video director Chris Nahon (Kiss of the Dragon, Empire of Wolves). This anime-inspired flick is entirely in English so you won’t have to squint quizzically at lost-in-translation subtitles and miss all the gory on-screen carnage! Blood: The Last Vampire gets our fang-gnashing approval for its R-rated “strong, bloody stylised violence.”

Cast Allison Miller, Gianna Jun, JJ Field, Koyuki, Liam Cunningham, Masiela Lusha, Yasuaki Kurata Director Chris Nahon Runtime 89 mins Opens 11 June

Text Maybritt Rasmussen