Rent Lake of Dracula (1971)
3.2 of 5 from 48 ratings
1h 22min
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- Synopsis:
In an old abandoned house just off the coast of Noto, five-year-old Akiko witnesses a grizzly murder and the resting place of a golden eyed vampire. Narrowly escaping a fate worse that death, Akiko grows to adulthood still affected by her ordeal, which has been explained to her young mind as a terrible dream. But with the delivery of a mysterious package, her bloody nightmare is about to recommence, as the horror is reawakened. Soon, young women are found to be suffering from strange bite marks and massive blood loss. With no logical explanations, the only possible cause can only be the return of the vampire. As friends and family begin to change around her, Akiko realises that her nightmare had always been a reality. She must once again visit the vampire's lair and confront the monster that has dominated her life, and save those she loves from an eternity of living death. - Actors:
- Midori Fujita, Osahide Takahashi, Sanae Emi, Shin Kishida, Tadao Futami, Mika Katsuragi, Setsuko Kawaguchi, Tatsuo Matsushita, Yasuzô Ogawa, Haruo Suzuki, Fusako Tachibana, Kaku Takashina, Michiyo Yamazoe, Wataru Ômae, Hideji Ôtaki
- Directors:
- Michio Yamamoto
- Producers:
- Fumio Tanaka
- Writers:
- Ei Ogawa, Masaru Takesue
- Aka:
- Noroi no yakata: Chi o suu me
- Studio:
- Warrior
- Genres:
- Horror
- Countries:
- Japan
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Spoilers follow ... - Lake of Dracula review by NP
As I write, it's 69 years since Godzilla first stomped across our planet, causing the kind of destruction that is, even now, wowing audiences across the world. Toho films were originally (and subsequently) responsible for most of The Big G's attempts to save/destroy humanity. Perhaps less well known, particularly to Western audiences, is that Toho also enjoys a run of horror films. They were behind 1998's seminal Ringu, for example, which spawned a whole host of ghostly dark-haired children in horror films.
They flirted with the Prince of Darkness himself with this trilogy of films. Beginning with 1970's 'The Vampire Doll' and ending with ending with 'Evil of Dracula (1974)', 'Lake of Dracula' stars Shin Kishida as a thin glowing-eyed vampire and is more frightening than you might imagine. Nicely directed by Michio Yamamoto and bathed in abrasive colours, he is a force well up to the standing and style of other Draculas.
Any middle section of a trilogy has the most difficult job. No beginning and no end to speak of, it might ungraciously be regarded as 'filler' to any ongoing story. Happily, the stories are so loosely connected, 'Lake' is free to do as it pleases to a large degree.
There's a note of restrain with the horrors here, which isn't always the way with Toho films, and yet the finale is as horrifying as you could hope for. A triumph of lighting, tension and a generally eerie ambience, my score is 8 out of 10.
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