Movie Preview: Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl

Sometimes you just run across a title that makes you say ‘What is that?’ Well that’s how I found Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl.

This is not what you might be thinking. It’s a foreign film - Japanese. It’s filled with gore and the concept of PC has not reached the director (Yoshihiro Nishimura) or writer (Shungiku Uchida). It’s low-budget.

It’s the type of trailer that makes you wonder what you just saw. And compels you to look at it again just to be sure what you did see. Which either means the film itself will be worthwhile, or a complete waste of time.



There are no illusions here. This is not going to win an Oscar, or likely anything else. You aren’t watching this because of the great acting, or intense CGI. It’s an honest direct and insane kind of film. A dirty pleasure for film buffs and a unique experience for anyone else.

I won’t pretend to understand what is being said in this film. Japanese is not one of the languages I understand. Not that the lack of understanding detracts from the film I believe.

But there are a few things that I have found out about the film.

It contains wrist cutting scenes. Which is graphic and may be too much for some.

There is not shortage of blood and gore.

The film features Ganguro – a Japanese trend in clothing and make-up.

The film features Lolita – another Japanese trend that involves Victorian style clothing and Goth

This is ultimately a love triangle story. Yes, really.

A lesson of the film is to always be careful of accepting a Giri Choco

The stars are: Yukie Kawamura, Eri Otoguro, Takumi Saito

Now after all that, either you want to give up 85 minutes of your life to see this film, or not. I would because after watching Transformers 2 and G.I.Joe it just really can’t get much worse, and at least this film will be fun.