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Night Hunter

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Kick boxing champ Don "The Dragon" Wilson is the last of the vampire hunters, a tortured soul who spends his life breaking necks and driving wooden stakes through people's hearts. In Los Angeles, the heads of all of vampire families are meeting to discuss their plan to put the bite on the city. Wilson has to stop them! His only help comes from a sexy National Enquierer reporter played by that girl who made out with SEINFELD durring SHINDLER'S LIST. Cool action, funny lines, and a character you can really care about. I read about this movie in The Washington Post!

Jack Cutter (Don Wilson), is the son of a vampire hunter. When his parents are killed, Jack inherits a book which lists the remaining vampire bloodlines. Jack must kill the remaining vampires before before they get a chance to reproduce. Sound like your typical vampire plot? Yep, but, okay I actually LIKED Night Hunter. I expected it to be just another cheesy martial arts flick, but instead, there was actually a fairly decent plot line. Don Wilson was good as the flawed, and lonely Jack Cutter. The vampires themselves were good-looking bunch (not the skinny white nosferatu type), with actual motivation (a desire to breed), and some fairly decent acting on all parts. I was rather pleased by the cast selection. Usually in less expensive films, the vampires are ugly to make the hero look good!

Towards the end, this flick petered out a bit, and became one endless fight scene, which had me knocking off a star. There was also a few thinly veiled S&M catfight scene between the main heroine and the lesbian vampire which seemed to be added to tittilate the audience. YAWN. (Must this happen to the heroine in EVERY vampire movie?) Still, this was a worthy vampire flick, worth viewing. (Although I could wish for a little bit more exploration into the lives of the vampires and the vampire King's love for the French woman).

Worth seeing, for some decent character development early on and a cast of good-looking vampires. Ultimately disappointing because of its uninspired ending.

Night Hunter

Night Hunter starring Don The Dragon Wilson as Jack Cutter, this is a great movie, it's about a young man who's family are vampire hunters,
they keep a journal with a list of all the vamps each time they kill one they cross it's name off the list. When Jack was a child his mother
father and himself were in a house with the windows boarded up, a friend a fellow hunter comes banging on the door one night begging for help
they let him in, once let in he quickly betrays them and invites the vampires in, ( Jack ) who was hidden by his father before the vamps got
there watches as his mother dies fighting them, his father gets him out through the window with a gun and the vamp journal then is killed by
the vampires

he grows up pretty much a loner carrying on the family tradition of hunting and killing vampires, after killing some of them in a restaurant
he winds up on the run. The police spot him in an alley and give chase, on the run he meets a female reporter when he jumps in her car and at
gun point tells her to drive, she does and from there they start to form a bond, this film in true Don The Dragon Wilson fashion has action
from start to finish...color sound and picture quality are excellent

Not much Maria Ford. She does some kind of accent which is cute.
They shake the camera every time theres a fight. Should have had a lot more Maria. For those who don't know Maria ford might have the best legs in the world.

Believe it or not, "Night Hunter" is not a Blade knock-off. Sure, the back of the DVD case bears the unattributed quote 'better than Blade', but seeing as this film was made a couple of years before the Wesley Snipes blockbuster, I think it's in the safe zone. If anything, "Blade" borrows some ideas from this one...but rest assured, "Blade" is about a hundred times better than this, which ranks among the worst films that Don Wilson has ever appeared in.

The story: John Cutter (Wilson, Bloodfist series) is the last of an ancient lineage of vampire hunters. Armed with a shotgun and his martial arts skills, he stalks the creatures responsible for killing his parents. Upon killing some of them in an LA restaurant, Cutter is hunted not only by vengeful vamps but also the LAPD, who believe him to be a criminal psychopath.

There are a few uncommon facts about vampires that the film asks us to swallow: 1) they can only be killed by breaking their spine, 2) their blood acts as a fountain of youth for their human servants, and 3) they can in fact walk around in sunlight, as long as they wear sunglasses. That last tidbit tells you a lot about the movie: the film is called "Night Hunter" but only about 10 of its 86 minutes of length take place in the dark. A plot point of the film involves Cutter needing to take out the remaining vampires prior to a solar eclipse, but it's never explained why; they can walk around in daylight just fine, after all.

The film was penned by William C. Martell, who's written such endearing classics as Invisible Mom and Wilson's own Virtual Combat, but I don't think the snafu's his fault: the bare bones production values suggest that the crew was incapable of shooting in the dark. This is a shame, since a lot of what's filmed in light isn't worth looking at...like the fight scenes. Choreographed by genre guru/Don Wilson-leech Art Camacho, the scenes feature legitimate talent such as Ron Yuan (Mask of the Ninja), Vince Murdocco (Ring of Fire), Sophia Crawford ("WMAC Masters"), and the amazing James Lew but are shot and edited in typical quick-cut, B-movie fashion that keeps them from ever looking cool. The cameramen for these scenes bring the "shaky camera" effect to new lows. Oh, and there's a gunfight directly plagiarized from a John Woo film...if John Woo were filming on a $15 budget and drunk.

The supernatural abilities of the vampires are fudged (e.g. their supposed superhuman speed is demonstrated by showing them running in circles followed by shots of Wilson shooting at them and missing), as is most of the acting. Wilson is his usual monotone self, looking consistently angry about something (most likely one-time actor Cash Casey's atrocious performance as the detective out to get him). The vampires are led by Nicholas Guest (Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor) and Maria Ford (The Key to Sex), both who should never have been allowed out of acting school. The only decent performer of the bunch is Melanie Smith ("As the World Turns") as Cutter's kidnapee/reporter-girlfriend, but she too is at odds with the written-over-lunch script.

Is there anything good about the movie? Well, Don Wilson's wardrobe was nice: a trenchcoat and vest over a fishnet shirt is cool as far as I'm concerned. The rest of the film is fit to line a litter box with for the mere fact that even though Don Wilson had worked with director Rick Jacobsen five times before, the two are still incapable of cranking out a decent movie together. I mean, forget the film's individual flaws - after five tries of bad action flicks, you'd think they would've either gotten a cinematic divorce or finally achieved something halfway decent...but that is not the case, here.

I know the stars and the Title don't match but this is a great movie. My friends and I rented this movie and laughed the whole way through. Trust me you'll want this movie after you watch it just so you can show everyone out there that a movie htis bad really does exist.

I know the stars and the Title don't match but this is a great movie. My friends and I rented this movie and laughed the whole way through. Trust me you'll want this movie after you watch it just so you can show everyone out there that a movie htis bad really does exist.

Not much Maria Ford. She does some kind of accent which is cute.
They shake the camera every time theres a fight. Should have had a lot more Maria. For those who don't know Maria ford might have the best legs in the world.