Glucedee
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
InformationRap
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Invaderbank
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
ebiros2
A transfer student shows up at Tokyo high school. Then strange things starts happeningOne day before the Vallentine day, a transfer student shows up at Jugon's (Takumi Saito) class. Her name is Monami. She gives chocolate to Jugon on Vallentines day. In it was her blood that turned Jugon into a Vampire. there are other odd students in Jugon's school. They all contribute to the mayhem that's to follow.The movie is total camp, and actors are good, but the portrayal is - gross. If you have a weak stomach, this movie is not for you.Horrible movie that's gross and funny at the same time.
tfarrell1976
I'm pretty quick to catch onto films and can follow them quite easily, but girl vs girl, was the most boring, drawn out rambling incoherent mess I have had the misfortune to see since the cottage.Seriously its a 2 hour film approximately, and bugger all happens for the first hour, the second hour it only picks up slightly with some cheap gags, but battle between vamp girl and zombie girl is so poor and trite it no way makes up for the rest of the film.Another thing that puzzles me, the boy they fought over, did he have to be such a bland, spineless eunuch, or could they simply not be bothered developing his character, and why these girls would bother fighting over him? But the film makers decided to bore us to death and then in the second half of the film focus on sad set pieces that we where supposed to think original, but instead are trite offensive sexist clichés that where out dated in the 90's.And don't even get me started on the irrelevant "ganjuro girls" apart from wanting to offending black people they served no purpose. Or the ending of the film where pretty boy finds out he's a replacement for her dead servant Igor, at that point the film makers should have pretty boy act like a man and rip vamp girls head off, thus making a happy ending and destroying any possibility of a sequel.Will say saw this on DVD, and the theme song, and little video that plays on the main menu screen are the best parts of this film.That and the end credits too
Coventry
"Frankenstein Girl vs. Vampire Girl" was scheduled at the Belgian International Festival of Fantastic Films on a Saturday night at 2 o'clock in the morning, in other words when the horror crowd is at its most numerous and wildly enthusiastic to see bloodshed, dementia and extreme sickness. And what an excellent choice it was! The people went berserk along with the absurd and totally eccentric characters in this 200% bonkers movie from the creators of "Tokyo Gore Police" and "The One-Armed Machine Girl". The emphasis more than obviously lies on the splatter orgies and nefarious sense of humor, but there's actually also a decent storyline hidden underneath all the mayhem, with interesting lead characters and the craziest bunch of sub plots you've ever witnessed. Monami, the beautiful new girl in school, falls in love with the shy school stud Jyugon and immediately makes him hers by offering a Valentine's Day chocolate with her own blood as filling. For you see, Monami is a vampire girl and pretty much demands Jyugon to happily live with her for all eternity. Jyugon is already the boyfriend of schoolgirl gang leader Keiko, but she obviously cannot compete with the vampire powers of Monami. That is to say, until Keiko dies and her deranged principal father transforms her body into Frankenstein girl; composed of bits and parts of other students. The best and most entertaining things about "Frankenstein Girl vs. Vampire Girl" are the extended introduction of the supportive characters. We have a gang of Japanese girls that desperately want to be black ghetto girls, the girls preparing for the annual wrist-cutting tournament, the creepily hunchbacked janitor and a nymphomaniac school nurse. The first half of the film is non-stop outrageous, but naturally the tempo and level of viewer's engagement drops down a little after that simply because you're adapting to the weirdness. The climatic battle – fought out on top of the school's very own imitated Eiffel Tower – is sublimely over the top again. The gore and splatter effects are extreme and brutal, but simultaneously very campy and light-headed. It's not exactly the type of movie that is out to shock or offend people, merely just to entertain them in the most tasteless, pulpy and brainless fashion.
Polaris_DiB
When I was in elementary school and couldn't find someone to play with at recess, I use to traipse around the edges of the playground in loop after loop, making up epic superhero narratives in my mind with less logic and more epicness than even my eight-year-old self could possibly take seriously. I dreamed up boots with spikes so deep they caused wells of lava to burst from under my feet with every step they take, battles with the devil which ultimately lead to me turning the World Trade Center into a giant cross to dispel him (this was before 9/11. Hell, this was before I knew what those iconic buildings even were), end of the world demonic armies attempting to take the playground hostage before I repelled them using my endless lines of secret tunnels under the basketball courts to hide everyone away to safety... anyway, they were great times, but as I said, even when I was eight I'd come up with this stuff and think to myself, "But nobody would ever actually like this stuff but me." Well, if you take that imagination, add geysers of blood, ridiculous sexual material, and blatant racism, you get something closely resembling Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl.What's to explain, plotwise? A young Japanese high school kid gets forced into a battle between two controlling girls, one who happens to be a vampire and the other who happens to be the son of the Japanese progeny of Dr. Frankenstein. Really, that story is all that fills an hour and a half. It's just, how you get from frame one (Frankenstein Girl deciding to bully the kid into being her boyfriend) to the end (Boyfriend declares his allegiance and the lesser girl loses) basically involves... a lot. A lot of what, you ask? Just that. A lot. I can't even call what was on-screen surreal, because it was so blatant. But I can't say it makes sense, because nobody, from the filmmakers to the audience, is there for it to make sense. It's just a straight-up splatstick comedy of such bluntness and directness that there's really nothing you can do but sit there and let it happen to you. Sure, people in the theatre laughed, but not hysterically. For the most part there was just nothing the audience could do because there's no real room in this movie for cogent thought. They kill that idea before the opening credit sequence begins.However, could you necessarily say this movie is bad? After all, it's not technically like any other movie I've ever seen (still makes more sense than Executive Koala; still has better graphics and more care than Killer Drag Queens on Dope). It doesn't pretend to be anything else. It doesn't have terrible acting (though who could act in a movie like this, where the dialog is basically "You are my boyfriend now." "What?" "Good bye." and screaming). The special effects aren't stellar but you get what is going on. It's just, in the end, you still kinda wonder how the action got from someone's head through all of the hoops of film-making to end up on screen without someone in the process saying, "This is much too ridiculous, I get the joke but come on!" And yet on the other hand, that's exactly what I appreciate about the Japanese--more so than any other film industry, the Japanese are willing to throw the most ridiculous material right up on screen, mostly because when it comes down to it, they know those crazy American will eat it up once it comes out on DVD, mainly because the Americans can be comfortable with it because they figure it's experienced through the filter of the Japanese. Once again I'm pretty much sure that these two cultures are merely funhouse mirrors reflecting each other, and Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl is the type of image we occasionally get.--PolarisDiB
