View Larger Image |
Vampire Hunter D Directors: Carl Macek, Toyoo Ashida Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Academy Ratio Format: Color, Animated, Dolby Audience Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes Studio: Urban Vision Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Region Code: 1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2000-10-17 Buy from Amazon |
|
From Amazon.com D, a haunted half-human, half-vampire warrior, wanders the countryside of a feudalistic future, hunting his own kind while battling his own evil nature. Like a rogue samurai, the silent, solitary hero wanders into a small hamlet terrorized by the all-powerful Count, a monstrous vampire lord, and his demonic minions from a castle that casts a long shadow over the countryside. The Count has claimed the human Doris (who wields a mean cutlass herself) as his bride. D becomes her protector and--when she's captured by the Count's shape-shifting minions--her savior. Designed in slashes and sharp, angular images and directed with abrupt explosions of lightning-fast action, Vampire Hunter D is violent and bloody in the mode of a samurai adventure. The sleek D is appropriately dark and quiet, cutting a mysterious figure, while the Count is a veritable demon of a vampire, a supernaturally powerful monster whose appetites know no bounds. The undercurrent of sexuality never spills over into the sadistic vein of so many "adults only" thrillers, but it is recommended for mature audiences. The DVD features both English and Japanese language soundtracks with optional English subtitles. It also has a documentary featurette, deleted footage, and an artwork gallery by Amano among its supplements. --Sean Axmaker |
 "Vampire Hunter D goodness"Well, what is there to say? It's Vampire Hunter D. He is what is called a Damphir(pronouced:Dam-peal). He is the son of dracula and a human mother. The basic plot is that Vampire Hunter D is working for a young woman named Doris Lang, who was bitten by the vampire, Count Magnus Lee. It's an older movie, so if you don't like 80's style animation this sort of movie isn't really for you, unless, of course, you love vampire movies. I'd have to say, overall, it's a good movie. I could've been much better had it truly followed the book it's based on, but it's still pretty accurate. This isn't really for the younger audience.  "Fun, but could have been a lot better"Vampire Hunter D is a film that has always been problematic for me. Like most anime films, it has a reputation with some fans that is all out of proportion to its actual merits. The rabid boosters of all things anime will have you believe it is a masterpiece on a level with the original Dracula, or some such nonsense. This is obviously not true if you look at it without the rose colored glasses of anime fandom. But neither is it true that it is a terrible, horrible piece of crap not worth watching. It boasts interesting character design (for D at least), a thoughtful plot, an unusually well written score and some clever scenic work. It suffers from the usual hackneyed anime style clichés of huge eyed, huge breasted characters, silly speed lines and up-in-the sky combats, a terrible English dub with Speed-Racerish voice acting, and cheap, often very crude cycled animation. Despite these shortcomings, Vampire Hunter D is worth a look.  "how is this a classic"After reading the book, which was i found to be a good read, i found myself interested in checking out this movie, wow big mistake. First off the plot is so jumbled it makes little or no sense, nothing seems to flow in any proper order here, fights happen that didnt in the book, fights are missing, charters meet before there suppost to, or charters are just throw together, theres holes left all over this movie, ie. everyone within this anime wears crosses while in the book no one knows or wears them. The voice acting, if it could be called that, is extreamlly weak at best. The animation itself is poor, yes this was made many years ago, but still i've seen old bugsbunny looking better then this. Its a shame how bad this is, as for those that say its a classic, well the book may be but theres no way after watching this you want to see it again, unless your punishing yourself for buying it. Theres better anime out there, do yourself a favour and look elsewhere, its bad really bad, btw im so bored im writing this just as its about to end. "nearly superior anime"Whether you are new to anime or have been a long time viewer of anime, Vampire Hunter D is a sure win! Everything from the characters to the dark feel of the movie is done right. I won't spoil the plot for anyone who hasn't seen this though I will say that Vampire Hunter D is not by any means your typcial horror flick of blood thirsty vampires. I haven't read the book that this movie is based on so I can't compare the film to the book. I do wish though that the movie was a bit longer than 85 minutes but trust me when I say that the amount of time doesn't take away from the story or the viewing pleasure for that matter. As for the dvd features, I think there could have been a more detailed featurette though the features that are on the disk aren't bad.  "the original movie"This film is set 10,000 years in the future in the year 12,090 A.D. where a vampiric nobility terrorizes human peasents. A young girl, Doris Lang, is attacked by Count Magnus Lee, a powerful vampire said to be a 5000 or 10,000 years old. She hires a horsman D to protect her farm from vampires' predations. |
