Monster of the Day #1942

Updated on June 10, 2019 By Ken Begg 9 Comments

It’s kind of unheralded but Amazon Prime has been really shoring up their selection of junk cinema lately. (Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake!) Since they added the pretty obscure trilogy of Hammer-inspired Toho vampire movies from the 70s, we showed the first one at the spring T-Fest. It was fine, but that was a mistake on my part. We should have shown the second. I didn’t want to rewatch the movies before we showed up, since I hadn’t seen them in forever. However, a cursory glance at the plots would have revealed that this, the second movie, contains the venerable Hammer trope of being set in a girl’s school. So vampires and pretty Japanese ladies and even some surprising (for Toho, anyway, if not Hammer) breast-baring and best of all a compact 82 run time and you have a pretty entertaining flick. The vampires are pleasingly traditional except that, for obvious reasons, crosses don’t come into play, which rather hampers the good guys. Anyway, check it out. Evil of Dracula (it’s not really Dracula) on Amazon Prime.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    When I had Prime, they had a pretty good selection of movies that didn’t seem to be available anywhere else–stuff like “Gog,” or “Destination Inner Space.”

  • Gamera977

    I should like this more. I guess it’s the whole European vampire movie dropped into Japan that creates a weird effect on me. From watching so many Asian horror movies lately I’ve noticed there aren’t that many vampire/werewolf type monsters but mostly curses, ghosts, crazy killers etc.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Speaking of vampires, there’s a site called theplaylist dot net that says Warners is going to delay “King Kong vs Godzilla” until later in 2020 so they can deliver an “A+” movie.

  • Rock Baker

    It was certainly an educational film. I learned from it that if you pin a Japanese girl by the shoulders, her whole body goes limp.

  • bgbear_rnh

    I liked it.

  • Ken_Begg

    I imagine they’re also have panicked meetings on how to salvage the franchise. I hope they can, but I don’t think it’s very likely.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    “I know! Let’s add more trans people, and an openly gay couple!”

  • Ken_Begg

    And then attack old school fans as racists! Well, it’s always worked up til now.

  • The Rev.

    …please don’t joke like that.

    “Well, it’s always worked up til now.”

    Hopefully not much longer, if the Oberlin case ends up being a taste of things to come with these lawsuits against the ultra-far-left nutbags.