Director: Michio Yamamoto

1970, 85min.

Language: Japanese with English subtitles

 

Abounding with images of dark thunderous nights, ghostly mansions and bloody fangs, Michio Yamamoto’s “Bloodthirsty Trilogy” — three vampire movies (VAMPIRE DOLL, LAKE OF DRACULA and EVIL OF DRACULA) that share the same cast and crew — is sure to please both fans of Japanese genre cinema and gothic Hammer horror.

The Trilogy kicks off with THE VAMPIRE DOLL, in which a young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend’s isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history.