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Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (2009). Geysers of arterial blood are made into an art form with the same respect as the fountains that grace a nation's great historical sites. Well, maybe respect is too strong a term, but the blood ballets are just one of the many squishy splendors offered up in this madness-strewn flick from Japan. Offensively violent, voyeuristic, insensitive, and stereotypical, this one has it all. The story itself seems a random crank-induced series of subplots that ultimately come together to form this entry's finale. These schoolgirls and their clicks, heck nigh everyone, are ineffably zany. They must be seen to be believed as entertainment. The CGI, like everything else, is used in excess, a trait that the Japanese have cultivated into a vaunted cultural trademark. The score helps to drive the lighthearted fun, a wonderful respite from the gallons of redness spilled. How the Japanese can take sheer lunacy, exploit it for all that it is worth, and then serve it up in such a splendid fashion will forever be a mysterious trait that need not be explained as long as they keep churning out more inexplicably good fun. Merci beaucoup.
Genruk