This vampire-turned-hunter saga owes a lot to both the original and remake of
Vampire Hunter D.
In Britain, vampires that were artificially created by implanting chips
in their necks are attacking people. Dispatching them is the job of the
Royal Order of Religious Knights, headed by the icy (and apparently
female) Sir Integra Hellsinger. Her chief agent, the red-clad Arucard,
destroys one vampire, then turns police woman Victoria into a
servant-vampire, bound to him. The outré story violates the rules of the
traditional legends: vampires wear crosses, enter churches, and pose as
priests; Hellsinger's mortal enemy is the Vatican's Iscariot
Organization. The animation is very static, and the design style changes
from character to character. Despite grotesque imagery borrowed from
Night of the Living Dead, the result is more silly than scary.
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