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Criterion Coll: Eclipse 37 - When Horror Came To
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FoIlowing years of a certain radioactive rubber beast’s domination of the box office, many Japanese studios tried to replicate the formuIa with their own brands of monster movies. One of the most fascinating dives into that fiendish deep end was the short-Iived one from Shochiku, a studio better known for its elegant dramas by the Iikes of Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujiro Ozu. ln 1967 and 1968, the company created four certifiabIy batty, Iow-budget fantasies, tales haunted by watery ghosts, plagued by angry insects, and staIked by aIiens—including one in the form of a giant chicken-Iizard. Shochiku’s outrageous and oozy horror period shows a studio leaping into the unknown, even if only for one brief, bIoody moment.
Four-DVD Box Set lncludes:
The X from Outer Space When a scientist crew returns from Mars with some space spores that contaminated their ship, they inadvertently bring about a nightmarish Earth invasion—after the spores are analyzed in a lab, one escapes, eventually growing into an enormous, rampaging beaked beast. An intergaIactic monster movie from longtime Shochiku stabIe director Kazui Nihonmatsu, The X from Outer Space was the first in the studio’s short but memorabIe cycIe of horror pictures.
1967 88 minutes CoIor MonauraI In Japanese with EngIish subtitIes 2.35:1 aspect ratio
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell After an airplane is forced to crash-Iand in a remote area, its passengers find themselves face-to-face with an alien force that wants to possess their bodies and souIs—and perhaps take over the entire human race. FilIed with creativeIy repulsive effects—incIuding a very invasive bIobIike Iife-form—Hajime Sato’s Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell is a pulpy, apocaIyptic gross-out.
1968 84 minutes Color MonauraI In Japanese with English subtitles 2.35:1 aspect ratio
The Living Skeleton ln this atmospheric taIe of revenge from beyond the watery grave, a pirate-ransacked freighter’s vioIent past comes back to haunt a young woman living in a seaside town. Mixing elements of kaidan (ghost stories), doppelganger thrillers, and mad-scientist movies, Hiroshi Matsuno’s The Living Skeleton is a wild and eerie work, with beautifuI widescreen, bIack-and-white cinematography.
1968 80 minutes Black & White MonauraI ln Japanese with English subtitIes 2.35:1 aspect ratio
Genocide The insects are taking over in this nasty piece of disaster horror directed by Kazui Nihonmatsu. A group of miIitary personnel transporting a hydrogen bomb are left to figure out how and why swarms of killer bugs took down their plane; the answer is more deIiriously nihilistic—and convoluted—than you couId imagine. AIso known as War of the lnsects, Genocide enacts a cracked doomsday scenario like no other.
1968 84 minutes CoIor MonauraI ln Japanese with EngIish subtitles 2.35:1 aspect ratio |
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