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Vampire Clay (Chi o sû nendo)
Horror
From Japanese special effects master Soichi Umezawa comes a singular horror experience in a wildly hilarious marriage of The Blob and The Evil Dead. After studying in Tokyo, Kaori returns to Aina Academy to finish her prep classes for art school. Quickly outshining her jealous classmates, she soon becomes the star of the class when she discovers a bag of old, mysterious clay and uses it for sculpting assignments. Things begin to get strange, however, when students' projects are destroyed and one of Kaori's classroom rivals disappears. As the students uncover that the clay is possessed by an artist who previously owned the building and died tragically in his workshop, the school finds itself attacked by a gang of murderous, bloodthirsty clay "vampires." The monsters begin to impersonate--and subsequently devour--the students, thus answering the age-old question: can art be so bad that it kills? Rest assured: you've never experienced a movie like Vampire Clay.
Rating
NR
Director
Sôichi Umezawa
Studio
Monument Releasing
Writer
Sôichi Umezawa
- Monster movies are always a bit tongue-in-cheek going all the way back to the days of the guy in a rubber suit. Their goal is to make you smile and cheer when something crazy happens. In that regard, Vampire Clay succeeds.Reply
- this film of eerie earthenware and earthworms-that-turn comes with enough individuality and... idiosyncrasy, to earn itself the sort of appreciation (and, no doubt from some, abhorrent rejection) that typically greets products of outsider art.Reply
- Vampire Clay isn't perfect, not by any stretch of the imagination, but it is one of the most gleefully absurd and visually engaging films I've seen this year!Reply