Review by Roger Carpenter
Most true horror fans know the gothic excesses of Hammer horror in their heyday (late 1950’s through the 1960’s) are a high point of worldwide genre cinema. Many fans may even know that Hammer released alternate versions of many of their films in Japan with extra bits of gore and nudity. This points to the fact that Hammer horror films were quite popular in Japan, as they were in the U.K. and the U.S. In fact, they were popular enough for Japanese director Michio Yamamoto to try his hand at producing a homegrown version of Hammer-influenced vampires. This series of three films have become known as The Bloodthirsty Trilogy.
In 1970’s The Legacy of Dracula (also known as The Vampire Doll), Keiko and her friend go in search of her missing brother when the brother visits his girlfriend Yuko. In 1971’s follow-up, Lake of Dracula,...
Most true horror fans know the gothic excesses of Hammer horror in their heyday (late 1950’s through the 1960’s) are a high point of worldwide genre cinema. Many fans may even know that Hammer released alternate versions of many of their films in Japan with extra bits of gore and nudity. This points to the fact that Hammer horror films were quite popular in Japan, as they were in the U.K. and the U.S. In fact, they were popular enough for Japanese director Michio Yamamoto to try his hand at producing a homegrown version of Hammer-influenced vampires. This series of three films have become known as The Bloodthirsty Trilogy.
In 1970’s The Legacy of Dracula (also known as The Vampire Doll), Keiko and her friend go in search of her missing brother when the brother visits his girlfriend Yuko. In 1971’s follow-up, Lake of Dracula,...
- 10/29/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“Vampire Doll” was released in 1970 at the height of the European Horror boom and on the surface appears to have all the trappings of the Gothic Horror that had been so successful over the proceeding decade by the likes of Hammer. With the movies gaining an audience at the time in Japan, it was perhaps inevitable that this style would be adapted. It was the first of a loose trilogy by Michio Yamamoto who was to follow it up with “Lake of Dracula” in 1971 and “Evil of Dracula” in 1974.
The prologue begins with a raging storm as Sagawa makes his way to the Mansion to meet his fiancé Yuko. Upon arrival, lightning crashes around and the door is answered by the deaf mute Genzo. Greeted by Yuko’s mother, he learns that Yuko has died two weeks ago in a car accident. Staying the night at the mansion,...
The prologue begins with a raging storm as Sagawa makes his way to the Mansion to meet his fiancé Yuko. Upon arrival, lightning crashes around and the door is answered by the deaf mute Genzo. Greeted by Yuko’s mother, he learns that Yuko has died two weeks ago in a car accident. Staying the night at the mansion,...
- 6/21/2018
- by Ben Stykuc
- AsianMoviePulse
The Bloodthirsty Trilogy
Blu ray
Arrow Films
1970 – 1974 /2:35 / Street Date May 22, 2018
Starring Yukiko Kobayashi, Chôei Takahashi, Toshio Kurosawa
Cinematography by Kazutami Hara, Rokurô Nishigaki
Written by Ei Ogawa, Hiroshi Nagano
Directed by Michio Yamamoto
Hell-raising vampires invade the normally serene confines of Japanese cinema in three elegant 70’s shockers directed by Michio Yamamoto. Joining far-flung contemporaries like Jean Rollin, Harry Kümel and Stephanie Rothman, Yamamoto’s trilogy helped rejuvenate a genre always hungry for fresh blood.
In 1970’s The Vampire Doll, a restless spirit’s killing spree is the product of a tragic family secret – a storyline out of a Ross Hunter weepy with arterial spray taking the place of tears.
In search of her wayward brother and his girlfriend, Keiko arrives at a lonely country home only to find the sibling gone and his fiancee Yuko dead. Yuko’s saturnine mother is unusually tight-lipped about the circumstances surrounding her...
Blu ray
Arrow Films
1970 – 1974 /2:35 / Street Date May 22, 2018
Starring Yukiko Kobayashi, Chôei Takahashi, Toshio Kurosawa
Cinematography by Kazutami Hara, Rokurô Nishigaki
Written by Ei Ogawa, Hiroshi Nagano
Directed by Michio Yamamoto
Hell-raising vampires invade the normally serene confines of Japanese cinema in three elegant 70’s shockers directed by Michio Yamamoto. Joining far-flung contemporaries like Jean Rollin, Harry Kümel and Stephanie Rothman, Yamamoto’s trilogy helped rejuvenate a genre always hungry for fresh blood.
In 1970’s The Vampire Doll, a restless spirit’s killing spree is the product of a tragic family secret – a storyline out of a Ross Hunter weepy with arterial spray taking the place of tears.
In search of her wayward brother and his girlfriend, Keiko arrives at a lonely country home only to find the sibling gone and his fiancee Yuko dead. Yuko’s saturnine mother is unusually tight-lipped about the circumstances surrounding her...
- 5/19/2018
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Above: 1929 Swedish poster for The Hound Of The Baskervilles (Richard Oswald, Germany, 1929). Designer uncredited.It’s time once again for my countdown of the most popular (the most “liked” and “reblogged”) posters on my Movie Poster of the Day Tumblr over the past three months. The most popular by far, and deservedly so, was this extraordinary 1920s Swedish poster for an adaptation of Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, which looks like some modern Mondo marvel. I had never seen it before it showed up on Heritage Auctions in March, where it sold for over $5000 (a steal). I’m not sure how Heritage dated the poster or divined which version of Hound of the Baskervilles this was for, since there are no acting or directing credits on the poster. They claim it for Richard Oswald’s 1929 German version though IMDb has a variant of the poster attached to a 1914 German adaptation.
- 5/13/2016
- MUBI
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