Product description

Vampire Hunter D [1985]

Price: £16.50
RRP: £17.99
Average customer rating: 4.0

Binding : DVD
EAN : 5022366201148
Label : Manga Entertainment
Manufacturer : Manga Entertainment
Publisher : Manga Entertainment
Release date : 2003-06-02
Title : Vampire Hunter D [1985]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 15 years and over
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 1985-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 85
Studio : Manga Entertainment
Theatrical releaseDate : 2001-09-28
Number of discs : 1

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-06-24 rating:

D is for Disapointing ... or dumb ass?
How anyone can slag this film off is beyond me as for its time (1985) this had some of the sweetest graphics and even by todays standards, although lacking, the anime graphics are still kinda kool.... its a classic .... get over it.

Although the story line is kinda what you would expect, the film is kinda fast paced with some good scenes and alot of new ideas (for 1985) ... its well worth a look and def anime fans will appreciate its true value ... i think perhaps if they brought out one of those digitaly re masterd versions it would get the respect it deserves even in a modern market it would trample the competition.

review by: date: 2007-07-09 rating:

great atmosphere but ultimately poor plot and dialogue
This started off as a straight forward anime with a young girl finding herself in trouble on vampiric land. The plot quickly plummets with some ridiculous dialogue and the lead characters are never developed further. In addition, we end up having lots of 'loose ends' such as why Vampire D has a talking hand and what its purpose ultimately is for, why his robotic horse doesn't actually do much? This was a pretty poor DVD overall and I felt like I had wasted my time. Get the anime HELLSING which is much better.

review by: date: 2007-03-17 rating:

...
This was wierd. there were periods of no action, then suddenly, bursts of violence and action. plot was weak, and some little diversions had no logic at all, it was all a bit strange and distant.
D was a great character, but the girl was boring, she didnt have much to do other than act as both the count's and D'd temptation.
The animation stinks of last century, and i enjoyed the strange extaggered way the charatcers were drawn with, D's billowing cloak, sword, etc.
i did enjoy it, and i knew this film would not be a great anime, though it s considered a classic, and i bought it to satisfy my curiosity. yeh, id watch it again, but only for the great dark atmosphere and distant feeling to it, you cant really touch the characters and get beneath their skin.
the monsters were cool, but the 3 snake sisters were pretty crappily done but i liked the guy with the spikey hair, i think he was a werewolf...and the parasite on D's hand was perhaps the only lighthearted bit in the whole film, the hand sould have had a bigger part.
soundtrack- absolutely terrible!!! in my opinion most anime scores are pathetic and cliche but i suppose anime wouldnt be anime without it.

so yeh. its wierd and kinda otherwordly, the characters have robotic horses but fight with swords, and pretty unimaginative guns. nothing really makes sense- why they have the technology to have these horses but dont have high tech vampire deterants or fortresses? wierd. iv said wierd alot but thats what it is.
rent it for a flavour of basic animation and from the "classic" point of view, but dont go expecting something ethereal- which it could have been.

review by: ea_solinas date: 2007-02-03 rating:

Dampeel
"Vampire Hunter D" is a pretty deserving anime classic -- moody hero, gothic atmosphere, and buckets of blood.

While the animation is a bit dated, the solid direction and creepy story are more than enough to compensate. This dark, gloomy adaptation of Hideyuki Kikuchi's novels is a postapocalyptic cowboy/vampire story... with a twist. And boy, is it a twist.

Farm girl Doris is bitten by the ancient Count Lee (named after Christopher Lee), and is in danger of turning into a vampire herself. But fortunately she encounters D, a silent vampire hunter who agrees to protect her and her little brother from the Count and his underlings.

But Doris gets kidnapped despite D's efforts, and D sneaks into the castle and battles past mutants and snake-women to rescue Doris. But that isn't the end of the conflict -- Lee is determined to have Doris for his new wife, and D is just as determined to destroy the malign old vampire.

"Vampire Hunter D" looks a little dated to modern anime fans -- kind of smudgy and stiff (look at D's weird stabbing scene). Fortunately, the story more than makes up for this -- basically it's an old western, but with monsters, vampires, and cyborg horses.

The whole thing is very dark and shadowy, even in prim little towns, up until the final scenes when we finally see some sun. The storyline moves pretty slowly for awhile, but speeds up rapidly when Doris is abducted the second time, right up to the earthshattering finale.

It's also peppered with some solid fight scenes, as well as the gore: severed limbs, electric whips, exploding heads, flying organs and literal gushers of blood. While the tone is quite grim, some of the dialogue is pretty funny ("For the first time in one hundred years I haven't been bored once!"). Including everything said by Left Hand, the hilarious parasite in D's... left hand.

D himself is an enigma for most of the movie -- repressed, quiet, kind to kids, but with a hidden vampiric side that only turns up occasionally. It takes careful attention to figure out who this "dampeel" is. And while Doris could have been a bit tougher, she comes across very realistically as a young girl in a terrifying situation.

"Vampire Hunter D" is a postapocalyptic goth movie, with a likably taciturn hero,a timeless storyline, and a lot of graphic anime violence.

review by: Lauz date: 2007-01-11 rating:

Amazing
I don't normally like films like this but I decided to give it a try as it was on offer. This was one of the best DVD choices I have made. The animation was amazing and the storyline was powerful and flowed throughout the film.

This film I could watch over and over again and not get bored with it. I would recommend this film to anyone.

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