Événement

EVIL OF DRACULA

EVIL OF DRACULA
dir. Michio Yamamoto, 1974
87 min, Japan
In Japanese w/ English subtitles

When Mr. Shiraki arrived at the Seimei Girls School he thought he was just taking a job as a psychology professor but after finding out the principal's wife had...wait for it...just died in a car accident he reluctantly takes over as head of the school. He agrees to stay the night at the former principals home and late that night is attacked by 2 fanged women. The next day Shiraki believing it was all a dream (crazy, right?) goes to work at the school. As if things weren't weird enough he's about to discover the school itself harbors a dark history.

Borrowing heavily from the both VAMPIRE DOLL and LAKE OF DRACULA the third installment of the trilogy ditched the gloom and doom of the first two, instead banking on gore and nudity to draw the crowds.

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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.