Product: Bio Hunter [VHS] (1995)
Rating: 2.0
Watch Wicked City instead
There's good hooror anime, and there's bad horror anime, there's no in between. I'm not a huge fan of horror anime, but most anime has a horror touch in it. I'm also not a fan of the "kiddie" anime that's taking over our airwaves. I can't really say what I do like because there is a chance I'll like anything. I go by my first impression, I give any anime a chance. With that in mind I watched Biohunter. The cover box is very misleading, it makes you think this film was directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Ninja Scroll and Wicked City) when it really isn't. However, Kawajiri did write this flop of a film. I do like Kawajiri's earlier work like Ninja Scroll and Wicked City, he always has a horror like story in his films. But Biohunter felt like an updated version of Wicked City, and a bad one at that! Wicked City is a great 80s Anime film, it's very graphic, but it was groundbreaking along with Akira and Vampire Hunter D. Biohunter is similar to Wicked City in many aspects. What made Wicked City so good was it's originality. Originality is something Biohunter doesn't offer. It's story is simple: People are being mutated by a virus known as the "demon virus" (there's some originality!) The virus causes them to turn into monster who must kill humans. So these college professors become biohunters-and hunt down the mutants. To make the story more complicated one of the biohunters is a mutant himself. And a man with power, who I will not reveal is going around eating people's livers. The story is overused and the concept of monsters running loose in a city needs to be trashed. It was cool in 1987 when Wicked City came out, not to mention Wicked City had a much better plot and was made with precision. Biohunter is just a scar on Anime and should be easily forgotten. Biohunter isn't the worst Anime film, but it's one of the worst Iv'e seen in a while. The only reason I gave the film two stars is because Kawajiri was a part of it. If you want to see good Kawajiri, which he also directed, rent Ninja Scroll and Wicked City. Unlike Biohunter, you will not be dissapointed.