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THE VAMPIRE DOLL

THE VAMPIRE DOLL
dir. Michio Yamamoto, 1970
85 min, Japan
In Japanese w/ English subtitles

After a courtship in Tokyo, Kazuhiko and Yuko must spend an unbearable 6 months apart. Upon his return from his business trip Kazuhiko decides to visit Yuko in her remote country home. Things go from bad to worse when after being attacked by the house's creepoid servant he's informed that Yuko died in a car accident 2 weeks before. Yuko's mother offers to let him stay in their home and he agrees.

That night he hears screams coming from Yuko's room only to find her standing in the closet. He's knocked unconscious and the next day made to believe it was all a dream. The following evening he sees Yuko out his window and follows her to the family graveyard. Yuko turns on Kazuhiko flashing evil eyes and both literally and figuratively stabs him in the back.

A week Kazuhiko's sister Keiko decides to look for him and in the process uncovers Yuko's terrible family secret...

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With Hammer's runaway freight train success in the 60's it's no wonder Japan wanted in on the action. Yamamoto's Bloodthirsty Trilogy, as it would come to be known, sent the bloodsuckers East. Scored in gothic bossa-nova by Riichiro Manabe (GODZILLA VS HEDORAH) the films are a one of a kind treat for fang-fans the world over.