Monster of the Day #786

Updated on October 11, 2013 By Ken Begg 17 Comments

Well, no surprise here, as several people had predicted it. Still, it’s the Grandfather of Japanese ghost movies. Easy to see where the ghost girl from Ringu originated, she’s basically the daughter of this lady.

This is on my Halloween watch list, courtesy of the fine folks from Criterion. Maybe a day watching this and Toho’s Dracula movies.

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  • Eric Hinkle

    ” Toho’s Dracula movies.
    ”

    Toho made Dracula movies?!? When will these be showing on TCM?

  • Ken_Begg

    They made three Hammer-style (and often rip-off) vampire films, although I think one of them may have actually lacked Dracula. Then again, so did Hammer’s Brides of Dracula.

    The three films were Evil of Dracula, Lake of Dracula & Legacy of Dracula.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Thanks, I’ll check around on those titles.

  • Gamera977

    Interesting, I’d not heard of them either. So they’re standard European vampire movies- no Japanese spin on them at all?

  • Gamera977

    ‘Waitress, this miso soup you brought me is ice cold!’

  • sandra

    Woman of the Snows from Kwaidan ?

  • Flangepart

    “Oh, just wait till I get my hand on the guy from maintainance. This AC is insane!”

  • Rock Baker

    You actually have copies of them, Ken? Where’d you get them?

  • Ken_Begg

    Burned gray market copies off iOffer.

  • Rock Baker

    English?

  • Eric Hinkle

    The Yuki-Onna (Snow Woman) from Kwaidan?

    “One more crack about me being ‘frigid’ and you’re sleeping in the snow.”

  • The Rev.

    I actually learned of them in G-Fan many moons ago. I have not seen them, though I would like to.

  • The Rev.

    Ah, the Snow Woman. Truly, this was a triumph in ghost stories. The actress is creepy enough, and the lighting in her SW form helps accentuate that, but what truly puts her on another plane is how normal she seems as “human,” and then how completely she changes as SW. Her stiff movements, even when she changes expression, really convey the sense of someone frozen and barely able to move. She gave me one of my all-too-few “raised hackles” moments during a movie. I hope this actress had a long and successful career, because she deserved it just for this.

  • sandra

    The Lovers Vow segment of Tales From the Darkshire, starring Rae Dawn Chong, totally ripped this off.

  • zombiewhacker

    You can always buy them at the UK Amazon site. All you need is a region free DVD player.

  • sandra

    I meant to say Tales from the Darkside.

  • The Rev.

    If you have TCM and haven’t seen Kwaidan, don’t forget that it comes on this Sunday morning at 1 a.m. CST