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This month’s installment of Deep Cuts Rising features a variety of horror movies, with some selections reflecting a specific day or event in November, and others chosen at random.

Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown.

This month’s offerings feature Dracula, a giant zombie poodle, a golem, and more.

The Tomb of Dracula (1980)

Image: The Tomb of Dracula

Directed by Minoru Okazaki.

For World Television Day (November 21), Dracula followers as well as Marvel fans might get a kick out of the 1980 animated TV-movie based on the serialized comic series The Tomb of Dracula. Between 1972 and 1979, the iconic Count Dracula was reworked into a master antagonist who was routinely opposed by a team of vampire slayers. The same series also contains the introduction of popular Marvel character Blade.

Marvel and Toei Animation...

A nervous housewife gets a frightful visit in Banmei Takahashi's little-seen psycho-sexual J-horror gem Door. With flashes of giallo inspiration and memorable sound design, this marvellously entertaining 1988 production debuted internationally with a new 4K remaster at BiFan this year. Yasuko (played by Takahashi's real life wife Keiko Takahashi) lives with her young son and workaholic husband in a modern apartment. Since her husband is seldom at home and she is constantly accosted by male salesmen on the phone or the intercom aggressively trying to push their wares on her, she doublelocks her door with almost religious intensity every time she walks through it. One day she makes the crucial mistake of not flipping the door lock, only the chain. When a salesman (Daijiro Tsutsumi)...

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I have to admit that one of the pleasures I have been lately experiencing in my dealings with Asian cinema is the restoration/remastering of a number of movies from the past, particularly the ones that were quite hard to find nowadays. Banmei Takahashi's “Door”, which actually stars his wife, Keiko Takahashi, is definitely one of those movies, particularly because it uses tension and violence in order to make a number of sociopolitical comments.

“Door” is screening at Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival

Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her little son, Takuto. Their lives go on in harmony, with the only issues being that Satoru is overworked and he does not have that much time for his family, and the annoying plethora of spam calls the couple receive on the phone, through the mail and by door-to-door salesmen. During a three day absence of Satoru,...