FF 2009 Review. Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl
How do you describe a film like this? I'm going to try my best but bare with me.
Mizushima is a young handsome schoolboy who has a bit of a problem. It's Valentines Day and one of the girls in his class Monami has given him chocolate as a token of affection. The thing is that Mizushima already has a girlfriend, Keiko the most popular girl in school and the daughter of the school's vice principal and science teacher. Not only that, the chocolate that Monami gave him contains some of her blood, because she's a vampire and wants to be with him forever. This of course angers Keiko quite a bit and a grand conflict breaks out between the two, especially when Keiko is falls of a roof to her death and her scientist father, who's really a crazy costumed super scientist in disguise puts her back together using assorted body parts and a drop of Monami's blood. What takes place after that is a gore fest of gigantic proportions with flying limbs and assorted body parts and bodily fluids.
The film is a hilarious take on teen soaps and is basically a romantic comedy at its core. The filmmakers set their sights on teen fads that are popular in Japan, emo wrist cutters, ganguro girls (the ones that want to resemble black people but here taken to a whole new extreme) and gothic dolls and tear them to shreds. All this is blended together in a diabolical mixer of guts and gore and resulting smoothie is pretty damn awesome.
You can't really criticize them for subpar production values because they handle everything in a way that fits the look and the pallet of the film no matter how cheaply it was made. If there is one negative about it, it is that it is maybe 15 minutes too long and because of that some of the gore scenes have stopped having any effect on you near the end.
Now I have to confess that I haven't seen Tokyo Gore Police or Machine Girl so this was my first dose of Yoshihiro Nishimura and Naoyuki Tomomatsu madness and I have to say that I really enjoyed the experience.
The next screening of Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl is on Tuesday, September 29th.
