Product Details

• Actors: Yukie Kawamura, Takumi Saitoh, Elly Otoguro
• Directors: Naoyuki Tomomatsu, Yoshihiro Nishimura
• Format: Color, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled
• Language: Japanese, English
• Subtitles: English
• Dubbed: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Funimation
• DVD Release Date: October 19, 2010
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003VOVVXC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,917 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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There are moments in Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl when you might find yourself idly wondering what Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley would think of all this. There's not too much time to ponder such a head-spinning proposition, however, because of all the spraying blood, teen skin cutting, and steampunk artificial limbs on display. Director Yoshihiro Nishimura, of Tokyo Gore Police notoriety, unleashes this little offering as a full-out, looney-tune romp through some of the goriest tropes of the circa-2010 Japanese horror flick. Insofar as there is a plot, it concerns a cluelessly glib vampire girl (Yukie Kawamura) who has the hots for her classmate (Takumi Saito), a boy she tries to "turn" by giving him a chocolate truffle filled with her own blood. (Why didn't anybody in the Twilight series think of that?) But she'll have to get past a determined rival (Eri Otoguru), whose father just happens to be a mad-scientist type looking for a test subject for his theories of reanimation. Suggesting that this qualifies as plot is something of a stretch; this movie is so spasmodically bizarre, and so slavish in putting out its cartoon-violent set pieces, that it simply barrels along according to its own demented logic. In short, those who like this kind of thing will go for it--and anybody who feels that a movie might attempt to make some feeble kind of logic, whether emotional or tonal or spatial, will be bored pretty quickly by the relentless attempts at zaniness. Various Japanese teen fads are satirized, the most startling of which is a group of school girls who try to look black--a side plot that, even though it aims at poking fun at a teen craze, uses such outrageous racial imagery that it stands out for its offensiveness in a movie that hungrily seeks to offend. --Robert Horton

Product Description

The deranged genius behind Tokyo Gore Police is back with a chilling new flick that’s re-writing the hallowed history of the horror genre. Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl is the terrifying story of two classic monsters re-imagined as super hot – and extremely lethal – Japanese school girls. Gore rules supreme in this blood-cake cavalcade of carnage chosen as the winner of the Audience Award at the 2009 NY Asian Film Festival. Fan boys and movie blogs are already buzzing over this bloodbath du jour, and aficionados of psychedelic blood-filled chocolates, mad scientist principals, sumo wrestlers from hell, and sex-crazed school nurses are guaranteed to lose their heads over this old school splatter-fest.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 37 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars "Turn Off Your Mind, Relax And Float Down Stream..." August 19, 2010

By 4-Legged Defender TOP 500 REVIEWER

Format:DVD

Based on a best-selling manga by Shungiku Uchida, this slice of dementia was fabricated for the hardcore audience of 'Tokyo Gore Police', 'Meatball Machine', 'Machine Girl' and 'Robogeisha', and ups the ante considerably when it comes to off-the-chain, over-the-top insanity, audacity and mind-melting hyper-violence.

A non-stop, balls-to-the-wall send-up of all the classic Universal horror flicks, we've got an adorable schoolgirl Vampire chick, a goth-girl gang whose leader becomes the Frankenstein girl after a fatal accident at the hands of the vamp chick, a hunchback dwarf who incinerates corpses left by the vamp, a school principal who's also the resident mad scientist / Dr. Frankenstein with a lab in the school basement, aided by an over-sexed faculty nurse who later becomes an undead killing machine at the hands of the good doctor. Have I got your attention yet?

And we're just scratching the surface of this psychotically-psychedelic celluloid centerpiece of all things absurd, offensive and voraciously violent. Imaginative beyond your wildest dreams, unapologetic in it's insensitive use of stereotypes (there's a group of girls who wear afros, facepaint, big lips, put plates in their lips and gangsta rap, ghetto dance and spew Ebonics about Michael Jackson, Barack Obama, Joyce Joyner and Michael Jordan - remember, these are Asian girls!), this flick has more WTF moments than anything I've ever seen, and that's saying a lot.

Then there's a parody of disturbingly real-life adolescent behavior in Japan, the wrist-cutting kids (who do this out of boredom, rebellion and status-seeking), and here we have a school sanctioned, annual wrist-cutting championship contest that the kids practice for after classes. Needless to say, the arterial blood-spray quotient has never been higher in one of these movies, and I thought that crown went to 'Machine Girl' when I saw it for the first time. Guess again. Noah's Ark couldn't withstand this sanguinary storm.

As the film progresses, the violence gets more vehement, the gore more grandiose, the larger-than-life lunacy now nearing apocalyptic proportions - there are no words that can adequately prepare your senses for this onslaught. It just keeps on building steam until the frenzied finale and a tip-of-the-hat parody of 'Let The Right One In' along with so much more. The only thing missing was nudity, but now I'm just being gluttonous...

For a low-budget film, the special effects work most of the time (even when not so special), and you can't analyze or over-think what's happening on-screen without ruining it for yourself - this is a roller-coaster ride, one of the largest you've ever been on. If you thought about this, you'd probably never get on one, and if you've never ridden one, you won't enjoy this flick. You need to turn your mind off for a spell and get sucked into the bizarre madness on display. It's not for everybody, hell, it's not meant for most folks. But if you've seen the movies referenced above, you're already in the choir and need to check this one out immediately. (By the way, it's much better than 'Robogeisha', which I found to be a let down...).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This movie is too funny ^_^ November 20, 2012

By taniwa

Format:DVD

Before I talk talk about this movie, let me discuss the issue of Blackface. Hi! I'm 22 and I'm, you guessed it, Black. And frankly, this movie showed me that the Japanese girls the Black club were just trying to hard to hard to be Black...that's it. They weren't being racist, they weren't picking on Black people, they weren't actually doing anything that was offensive. But if you were offended, then that's a personal problem!!! This movie is purely goofy, silly, and crazy beyond so many levels. The characters throughout the series are funny, while the CG and animation is so bad that it's amazing. It's one of those B-rated movies that you have to fall in love with, kinda like the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I would suggest this movie to anyone who wants a good laugh, and isn't up-tight about foreigners to admire a particular culture but sadly don't know a darn thing about it lol. I give this movie and Eric Vale 5 stars!

11 of 16 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Way better than I expected. October 1, 2010

By Dymon Enlow

Format:DVD

Transfer student Monami is a vampire and she has a crush on Mizushima who happens to be the kinda-boyfriend of Keiko who's father is secretly a mad scientist who, in cahoots with the sexy school nurse, is killing students and experimenting on reanimation. Wow! The pretty much the entire story, but what makes this movie stand out is the fact that the filmmakers are just out to entertain the audience and they do.

I'm normally not a fan of these wacky, blood spray Japanese movies, but for whatever reason I really liked VAMPIRE GIRL VS FRANKENSTEIN GIRL. The story was imaginative, the girls were beautiful, the entire thing was set in a high school, the pace was fast, the direction and camerawork was impressive, the music was excellent (I especially loved the love song and the harmonica / accordion /acoustic guitar version of a song that sounds a lot like Oasis' "Don't Look Back in Anger" - somebody please put that up on YouTube!) and the action was so over the top I couldn't help but to just sit back, laugh and enjoy the ride. My only real complaint is I wish there had been just a little bit more time spent on the relationship between the two leads. Well also some nudity would have been nice.

Insane creatures, delightful take on the vampire and Frankenstein stories, every person has 30 gallons of blood in their body, over exaggerated high school cliques, sexy school uniforms. I thought it was great and I've already pre-ordered the Blu-Ray. I can't wait til Part 2! Check it out!

Also there's some good extras on the DVD including over an hour of footage filmed during the making of the movie!!! Great stuff!