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.
Cinematography
Expressionist shadows and snow-blind exteriors that scream 1930s Universal.
Direction
Yamamoto's patient, Hammer-obsessed staging of every creak and sob.
Costume
Yukiko Kobayashi's white nightgown: iconic undead fashion.
Director
Michio Yamamoto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yamamoto made this as the first in Toho's 'Bloodthirsty Trilogy,' explicitly commissioned to cash in on Hammer Horror's success—yet it became something more elegiac.
The white nightgown and blonde wig on Yukiko Kobayashi deliberately evoke the 1932 'Vampyr' and European Gothic, transplanting occidental undead trauma to rural Japan.
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