Hole Head 2010 - Program Guide 'Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl'
Vampire Girl Vs Frankenstein Girl
Dir: Naoyuki Nishimura (who lovingly brought us Tokyo Gore Police)
A Japanese High School romance unfolds as two school girls fight over a young heartthrob. Oh, wait it’s not at all sweet like that. Nope. This is no “Hello Kitty” High School. This place is absolutely beyond the pale and there are also more gallons of blood spraying in the first five minutes than you’ve ever seen in your life. I am not kidding. This one has a bucket of blood in the face for each and every one of you twisted Japanese splatter flick fans!
An intrepid high school transfer girl, Arukado Monami, has a deep dark secret, she is a vampire and wants to suck her boyfriend, Mizushima’s, blood. It all comes to surface on Valentines Day when there is girl rivalry between Monami, who is a Frankenstein girl, and our sweet transfer student along with the school bully chick, Keiko, who’s ruling the local ‘Lolita’ chick gang. Are the girls willing to fight over Mizushima? Without a doubt! Do things get very, very out of control here very quickly? Umm. Yes. This film sets a number of new high benchmarks for madness and extreme gore & bloodletting. This is not a film for the meek and you’ll know just what you are getting into before the opening credits roll. What exactly am I talking about? Well, picture a decapitated skull that’s been completely flayed of it’s skin, flying with gnashing teeth into the face of a victim where, in a unreal visual, a nose is taken with the teeth and the entire face is de-gloved like so much BBQ sauce from a platter of well cooked spareribs. Ah, all this and a side order of well timed humor that ensures an entire film of over the top gore and laughter. A splatter comedy? There is nothing sacred here and side splitting and blood spraying humor is on tap from start to hilarious finish.
So, from the Director of The Tokyo Gore Police I am not terribly shocked by any of this. There are a few sly and possibly not so sly references to some Japanese cultural wackiness that might be in need of explanation.
Lolita fashion (ロリータ・ファッション) is a fashion subculture originating in Japan that is primarily influenced by Victorian clothing as well as costumes from the Rococo period.[1] Lolita has made this into a unique fashion by adding gothic and original design elements to the look. From this, Lolita fashion has evolved into several different sub styles and has created a devoted subculture in Japan. The Lolita look consists primarily of a knee length skirt or dress, headdress, blouse, petticoat, knee high socks or stockings and rocking horse or high heel/platform shoes.[2]
Ganguro (Kanji：顔黒 Hiragana: がんぐろ Katakana: ガングロ lit. "face black") is an alternative fashion trend of blonde or orange hair and tanned skin among young Japanese women that peaked in popularity around the year 2000, but remains evident today. The Shibuya and Ikebukuro districts of Tokyo are the center of ganguro fashion.[1]
OK. So, these are a couple of the initial style issues that pop up in the film that are generally unknown to most Western audience. Suffice to say these are not uncommon in Japan and they’ve both been featured in films already. Still, you’ll see some hilarious extremes here as the envelope is pushed again and again and again. Wrist cutting also makes it into the picture as the school has elevated wrist cutting into a competitive sport. Go figure. This makes for mad slashing and blood spraying mayhem.
Vampire Girl and Frankenstein Girl is an absolutely outrageous film that’s perfectly executed with mind-bending special effects. The Director’s sense of humor is as outlandish we’ve come to expect from of Nishimura, and clearly answers the question of “can it get more crazy than this?” Apparently the answer is yes, and this film sets a new high water mark for all that can be sliced, diced and morbidly re-assembled into monsters with a nod of the hat to traditional Japanese Kabuki caricatures and even Sumo wrestlers from hell tossed into the mix. The warfare of Vampire Girl and Frankenstein Girl continually escalates and takes us to the battle of the century. This film is absolutely insane!
- Mike Skurko
Dir: Naoyuki Nishimura (who lovingly brought us Tokyo Gore Police)
A Japanese High School romance unfolds as two school girls fight over a young heartthrob. Oh, wait it’s not at all sweet like that. Nope. This is no “Hello Kitty” High School. This place is absolutely beyond the pale and there are also more gallons of blood spraying in the first five minutes than you’ve ever seen in your life. I am not kidding. This one has a bucket of blood in the face for each and every one of you twisted Japanese splatter flick fans!
An intrepid high school transfer girl, Arukado Monami, has a deep dark secret, she is a vampire and wants to suck her boyfriend, Mizushima’s, blood. It all comes to surface on Valentines Day when there is girl rivalry between Monami, who is a Frankenstein girl, and our sweet transfer student along with the school bully chick, Keiko, who’s ruling the local ‘Lolita’ chick gang. Are the girls willing to fight over Mizushima? Without a doubt! Do things get very, very out of control here very quickly? Umm. Yes. This film sets a number of new high benchmarks for madness and extreme gore & bloodletting. This is not a film for the meek and you’ll know just what you are getting into before the opening credits roll. What exactly am I talking about? Well, picture a decapitated skull that’s been completely flayed of it’s skin, flying with gnashing teeth into the face of a victim where, in a unreal visual, a nose is taken with the teeth and the entire face is de-gloved like so much BBQ sauce from a platter of well cooked spareribs. Ah, all this and a side order of well timed humor that ensures an entire film of over the top gore and laughter. A splatter comedy? There is nothing sacred here and side splitting and blood spraying humor is on tap from start to hilarious finish.
So, from the Director of The Tokyo Gore Police I am not terribly shocked by any of this. There are a few sly and possibly not so sly references to some Japanese cultural wackiness that might be in need of explanation.
Lolita fashion (ロリータ・ファッション) is a fashion subculture originating in Japan that is primarily influenced by Victorian clothing as well as costumes from the Rococo period.[1] Lolita has made this into a unique fashion by adding gothic and original design elements to the look. From this, Lolita fashion has evolved into several different sub styles and has created a devoted subculture in Japan. The Lolita look consists primarily of a knee length skirt or dress, headdress, blouse, petticoat, knee high socks or stockings and rocking horse or high heel/platform shoes.[2]
Ganguro (Kanji：顔黒 Hiragana: がんぐろ Katakana: ガングロ lit. "face black") is an alternative fashion trend of blonde or orange hair and tanned skin among young Japanese women that peaked in popularity around the year 2000, but remains evident today. The Shibuya and Ikebukuro districts of Tokyo are the center of ganguro fashion.[1]
OK. So, these are a couple of the initial style issues that pop up in the film that are generally unknown to most Western audience. Suffice to say these are not uncommon in Japan and they’ve both been featured in films already. Still, you’ll see some hilarious extremes here as the envelope is pushed again and again and again. Wrist cutting also makes it into the picture as the school has elevated wrist cutting into a competitive sport. Go figure. This makes for mad slashing and blood spraying mayhem.
Vampire Girl and Frankenstein Girl is an absolutely outrageous film that’s perfectly executed with mind-bending special effects. The Director’s sense of humor is as outlandish we’ve come to expect from of Nishimura, and clearly answers the question of “can it get more crazy than this?” Apparently the answer is yes, and this film sets a new high water mark for all that can be sliced, diced and morbidly re-assembled into monsters with a nod of the hat to traditional Japanese Kabuki caricatures and even Sumo wrestlers from hell tossed into the mix. The warfare of Vampire Girl and Frankenstein Girl continually escalates and takes us to the battle of the century. This film is absolutely insane!
- Mike Skurko
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