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And then some. This movie is definitely not something for the faint hearted. It also is not politically correct and some might call it on some racism issues (especially how Africans are depicted in this movie). But that wouldn't be what this movie is about. It makes fun of everything it gets it's hands on (even suicide gets a "stab", no pun intended).

And this will define, how much you dis/like the movie. Can you handle all that craziness or do you want your movies more straight forward? If you are one of the latter kind, you shouldn't really watch this movie or at least not expect too much from it. Some crazy ideas and almost entirely over the top, this is made for fans of Machine Girl and other recent Japanese Horror fare/thrillers (or those who are on the verge of becoming one)

Two teenage girls—pretty vampire Monami (yummy Yukie Kawamura) and spoilt brat Keiko (Eri Otoguro)—vie for the affection of schoolboy Mizushima (Takumi Saito). As the tug-of-love escalates, Keiko is accidentally killed, but resurrected by her mad-scientist father and his sexy psycho assistant, school nurse Midori. The scene is now set for a final battle between the cute bloodsucker and the reanimated, modified Keiko, with Mizushima as the prize.

Coming from the people who gave us the OTT splatter-fest Tokyo Gore Police, I fully expected Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl to be a tad demented, but I doubt anything could have adequately prepared me for the madcap concoction of zany humour, grotesque gore, outrageous satire, and downright weirdness that has just assaulted my eyeballs. The film certainly doesn't disappoint in terms of sheer insanity.

Unfortunately, although this sucker certainly delivers in terms of wild comic-book excess, it isn't without its shortcomings: the hit and miss comedy takes precedence over the action and horror; certain aspects of the film feel rather forced, as though directors Yoshihiro Nishimura and Naoyuki Tomomatsu felt compelled to 'up the ante' in terms of bizarreness (this time, the satirical stabs at Japanese teen culture are nothing short of padding specifically designed to give the film extra cult appeal); many of the special effects are simply too cartoonish in their execution to be wholly satisfying (plus there is an over-reliance on CGI blood—UGH!); and after the gradual build up, not nearly enough time or effort is dedicated to a decent climactic showdown.

Still, the one accusation that can never be hurled at Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl is that it is boring. Take a look if you love the manic style of Tokyo Gore Police, or the relentless splat-stick of Peter Jackson's Braindead or Sam Raimi's Evil Dead II, but don't expect to be blown away.

6.5 out of 10, but not quite good enough for me to round my rating up to 7.

'Only in Japan' comes to mind when you watch "Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl" ("Kyûketsu Shôjo tai Shôjo Furanken"). It is one of those outrageous Japanese blood-fest movies. It is so over-the-top that it is bizarrely entertaining.

The story is odd and bizarre, yes, as they tend to be in this particular genre of Japanese gore movies. And it is something that has to be seen in order to be believed. As such, I will not even attempt at a synopsis that does the movie Justice.

The effects were as to be expected from a movie like this, and the blood was abundant by the gallons. If you enjoy state of the art effects and CGI, then you should not be watching the Japanese gore movies. The effects do serve their purpose well enough, in my opinion, and will often have you laughing.

It was a real treat to see Eihi Shiina in this movie, despite it being a small role. Lead actress Yukie Kawamura really carried the movie quite well.

All in all an entertaining movie and well-worth a watch if you enjoy this genre of Japanese gore.

I didn't find this crazy little film quite as good as many have and I think it was probably, what I would call the MTV sequences, that seemed to distract from the story and exaggerate the silliness. For the most part this is a well put together, extremely OTT film where everything is taken to extremes and the blood spurts and flows more than I have ever seen before. There are some innovative special effects, hand with a head, 'living' screws and various limbs used for extraordinary and imaginative uses. The interaction between the various school kids and others is good and a welcome relief from the madness, its just that every now and again the soundtrack seems to go all J-pop and we get a continuation of the effects without dialogue. Having said all that, this film is certainly engaging, different and very violent without being too distressing, more like a cartoon, in fact. I suppose, I'm saying this is very good without being as brilliant as it might have been.

Not knowing anything about the manga or this adaptation, the only thing I could say about the flick as I sat to watch was that the name and fundamental premise sounded like fun. For better or for worse, this also kindly informs just what we're getting into with the opening scene alone: abject low-grade cartoonishness that technically fulfills the promise of a splatter "horror-comedy" while not specifically being either horrifying or funny, and practical effects including proliferate blood and gore that are shamelessly augmented with the mid-2000s computer-generated imagery that has emphatically aged poorly. Brought to bear within even just the next couple scenes, there is also a significant parodying element here that would probably be more meaningful to someone who lives in Japan rather than anyone who lives anywhere outside the archipelago - not least as the notions being parodied include youth fashion that is questionable (Lolita) or outright objectionable (the ganguro style that at its most extreme is simply blackface taken to a deeply offensive new level). Moreover, between the bare-faced production values, the obvious CGI, Nishimura Yoshihiro and Tomomatsu Naoyuki's brashly forthright and immoderate direction, and in turn the pointedly unsubtle acting, cinematography, and editing, the nearest comparisons one may drum up are the Z-grade dreck of The Asylum, or the most outrageous, "devil may care" flippancy of the far reaches of amateur horror. 'Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl' sure is a thing.

None of this definitively precludes the possibility of the film being enjoyable. After all, as Nishimura adapts the source material, there are plenty of good, ridiculous ideas in the narrative itself. The core characters of Monami, Keiko, and Mizushima are all minor joys, not to mention Keiko's "vice principal but also mad scientist" father. The sheer irreverent ludicrousness of the characters, and of the scene writing and plot they feed into, are ripe for absurdist or even surrealist entertainment in line with exploitation flicks of the 70s and the "video nasties" of the 80s. I appreciate the absolute gusto that everyone contributed in their individual capacities, whether that means that blood and gore, the overwrought and ham-handed music, the downright garish costume design, hair, makeup, and production design and art direction - and, sure, even the editing, the cinematography, the acting, the direction, and maybe even that CGI. I don't believe all such inclusions, guided to the ends that they were, represented the best choices, but all involved clearly knew what the assignment was and they unreservedly embraced the preposterous tenor. With that said, I do think some aspects are perfectly unnecessary. Chiefly, those cultural tidbits that get parodied serve no purpose whatsoever in the storytelling, least of all the racist ganguro club. They are present with no importance to speak of, and the gratuitous inclusion instead does nothing more than to diminish the potential of whatever it is that this feature could have ideally been.

And, well, as to the rest - the reality of the utmost boorishness, juvenility, kitsch, chutzpah, bombast, and intemperance? The oversexed school nurse and her secret role, the pure bluster of that mad scientist, the buckets of blood and gore that are sometimes plainly senseless even relative to the likes of Peter Jackson's 'Dead-alive,' the very tongue-in-cheek and over the top music, the almost pointless fragments of more distinctly earnest and careful storytelling, and so on? There really are great ideas in these eighty-five minutes. And ultimately, if Nishimura and Tomomatsu had reined in the excess and self-indulgence just a smidgen, and had approached the concept and its realization with more genuine, mindful care, then maybe 'Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl' would have earnestly been better. For all the possibilities of the premise, for all the good cheer of the splatter flick ideations, for as much as all involved were very apparently enjoying themselves, and for what wild, wacky fun the picture does have to offer, there would be more lasting value here if equal skill and intelligence had been applied uniformly throughout the runtime. As it is, the result comes off far too much not as the wholly frivolous but merry B-grade romp that it could and should have been, but as a dodgy, dubious, low-born creation that wasn't shaped with enough of the discerning eye that would have allowed its best imagination, creativity, and hard work to flourish. I actually do like this, but because its profligacy wasn't modulated, my favor is.

For what the title does well, I want to like it more than I do. For what the title declined to have conjured or executed with more thought or judicious consideration, maybe I'm being too generous in my assessment. We get what we came for and 'Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl' never pretends to be anything that it's not. I just also see how it could have been readily improved: probably by more fully leaning into the unmistakable inspiration and predilection for tangible creations that we see from Jackson (in his early years), Brian Yuzna, or especially Stuart Gordon; possibly by giving it treatment not as a "live-action" movie, but instead as a gnarly anime in which anything and everything would have been more feasible; but almost certainly not by mixing the bottom-dollar CGI, green screen artificiality, and production values with the extravagant practical effects and special makeup, and with the unfettered cartoonishness that so much of the endeavor represents. It's okay, when all is said and done, but overbearing, and the problem is that it could have been fantastic. Alas. Don't go out of your way for this, and be well aware of the nature of what you're getting into, but if nothing I've noted has set off your alarm bells, then maybe 'Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl' is just the lark you want for a lazy day.

This movie grew on me as it progressed. A lot of the characters and their sub stories seems manic and disjointed. The wrist cutters, the ganguro girls (sorta like whiggers) etc. I have to admit I nearly gave up on the movie part way through.

The way the director ties the sub characters together actually works though...basically Frankenstein girl - body parts. The action is badly done as usual with fountains and fountains of blood. The comedic elements so-so.

The acting was actually OK, Vampire girl (Yukie Kawamura) does seem alittle old to be playing a high school girl but she has a certain cuteness and charm in her scenes. She also looks good splattered with blood.

This movie isn't as dark and gruesome as some of the gore movies out there. It also isn't as fun as some of the "comedic" gore movies as well. I give this movie a marginal pass 'cos I found Yukie Kawamura to be cute and it was a slightly different slant to the usual gore plots.

There is nothing really special about this film, even with all the blood and gore that is in it. Basically it's like some anime like style with all the wackiness, which isn't really a bad thing but that is just about it. I did like how it had some bizarre humor it in which actually made me chuckle a few times. But the thing is the movie is about a hour and thirty minutes but felt a lot longer cause the gore got old after a while, and the cliché love triangle didn't really help as well. love triangle is alright in films for me, but it wasn't engaging or interesting in this. The acting is also really bad in this which is to be expected especially Takumi Saito, you can really tell he wasn't trying. The only one that actually seemed to be really trying was that Kabuki Mad Scientist, even if the acting is bad at least the guy tried. Takumi Saito on the other hand just acted like he was just too cool to be in a film like this. Sure the film is bizarre but even during the fight scenes it just isn't that creepy or intense, which some films of this type of style seems to pull off. On the plus side, I did enjoy the craziness of this film despite the failure at the director's stab at teen pop culture.

5.9/10

Japanese culture is as bizarre as it gets, among the various oddities that have sprung from it are game shows which consist of male contestants being whacked in the genitals and animated pornography, termed "hentai", whose various sub genres involving bestiality and lactation have become widely popular amongst the population. Hell, they even sell toilet paper with short horror stories printed on it for god knows what reason. This utterly insane culture extends into their film as well and one doesn't have to look any further than Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl for an example of how depraved, grotesque and downright "weird" their movies can get. There are very few American-produced films that can match the sheer lunacy occurring within this "versus" circus freak show. Continuing in the tradition of previous hyper-violent, excessively-sexual Japanese horrors centered on attractive school-girls (popular films like The Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police), Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl throws a whole bunch of other peculiarities into the mix, including blackface, a kabuki mad scientist who air guitars using his victims spinal cords, an oversexed nurse with eyeballs sewn onto her nipples, a wrist-cutting competition, and copious amounts of blood equal in proportion to the accumulation of ten regular horror movies. If it isn't one of the strangest films of all time, it certainly is of this year.

Throwing up an assortment of depravity and blood-drenched insanity into a film always makes for good fun, but never makes up for a lack of plot, lazy writing or poorly-executed film-making, a few key problems that permeate through many of these gory, low-budget efforts. These are all issues readily apparent in The Machine Girl, a prior similar undertaking which, for all its excessive gore and dismemberment, was at its core really nothing much different than most substandard Hollywood fare. Here, directors Yoshihiro Nishimura (who tread similar ground with Tokyo Gore Police) and Naoyuki Tomomatsu have crafted both an emotionally-charged teen love story and a hilarious satire of popular trends, the film elevated by the over-the-top absurdities rather than reliant on them. High-school heart throb Mizushima finds himself in the center of a vicious tug-of-war between two lovers: Keiko, his high-maintenance girlfriend whose spineless vice-principal daddy bows to her every demand, and Monami, a new student in the school who falls for Mizushima's kind personality...and who also happens to be a vampire. Of course, when the two girls get into a feud, Keiko is no match for the supernatural Monami and is killed. However, Keiko's father moonlights as a mad scientist and he reanimates Keiko, upgrading her with a variety of different physical attributes swiped from corpses. Now, the Vampire Girl and the Frankenstein Girl find themselves facing off in a battle to the death for Mizushima's affection.

There are a plethora of outlandish gags to please any hardened gore-fan. Among the best are the Vampire Girl tearing a hole in a girls face and unraveling her skin like the wrappings on a mummy, a reanimated foot-hand creature, blood drops with a life of their own and the Frankenstein Girl tearing off an arm, screwing it onto her head and using it as a helicopter propeller to zip around through the sky. This is the love-child of a three-way between Looney Tunes, an early Peter Jackson film and a Troma movie. Nary two minutes go by where someone's head isn't being crushed in or where some appendage isn't being attached to some other ludicrous concoction. It is amazingly fun, completely original and absolutely never dull. Even those who don't enjoy the film, possibly too much for their tastes, will likely be enthralled by the madcap display enfolding in front of them.

However, it's when the film steps back from the lunacy that it's at its best. The characters at their best, particularly Monami and Mizushima, are surprisingly fleshed out, likable and quite funny; at their worst, over-the-top caricatures that are usually funny and always interesting. There are a lot of laughs mined from the absurd notion of falling in love with a vampire, as well as the battle being waged for Mizushima, the tone always light and self-deprecating; one comical part has Mizushima proclaiming, as he narrates the battle, something along the lines of "Has anyone ever asked my feelings about this", which sums up the ridiculousness of the obvious lapses of logic that allow the fight, and pretty much the entire film, to occur. Perhaps the funniest scenes involve those lampooning current teenage trends. The "emo's" are part of an after-school wrist cutting club. The trend of imitating black culture is taken to absurd limits with a trio of girls not only in black face, but with afros, over-sized lips and the refusal to drink any coffee but black. Not only isn't there a boring minute, but there isn't one that's not either laugh-out-loud hilarious or just plain crazy.

The only shortcomings are the occasional limitations of the low-budget paired with the wide scope of the films imaginative dismemberment. Some of the effects, although most often not, are poorly executed. As well, the arterial spray of blood throughout the film is less than satisfying due to the reliance on CGI effects, which look both incredibly cheap and silly (in a bad way). The entire film also carries a somewhat cheap vibe to it, which leads me to believe it was either digital video or inefficiency behind the camera. Regardless, these are small prices to pay for the amount of imaginative fun and hilarious splatter that Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl delivers, making it one of the better exercises in this type of frenetic insanity that so often falls on the wayside.

• Dylan, allhorrorfilms.com

"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.

Did they pay the actors for this piece of sh*t? Was the writer a one-year-old crazy psycopath who had never heard of logic or hear an interesting joke? This movie? is really boring, it looks longer than it is because of that. Didn't it last 3 hours? you will think after watching it... Well, it will probably last longer as you will probably fall asleep and have to start again... Silly characters, abysmal plot, intelligence-insulting developments... everyone involved in this movie should be banned entrance to any facility related to movie making... I hated everyone in the movie and wanted them to be killed as quickly and bloodlessly as possible. In the world of this movie it seems that people have hundreds of liters of blood. It takes minutes to get them dry even though they are leaking about 5 liters by the second... Please, burn every copy of this movie and delete any records about it. Sometimes not knowing is better...

As with everything that takes the decision making out of my hands I am swiftly regretting my decision to take suggestions. Not that I think everyone else has bad taste mind you. Only that precious few share "MY taste". Thanks to a recommendation I am now watching Vampire Girl Vs Frankenstein Girl, and yes it is every bit as skitzo as the title suggests. Consider this: * Decapitation. * A face stretched off. * Arms grow to become bloody, bony swords. * Another decapitation. * Arms severed. * A girl's "private area" perforated and gushing. * A third decapitation. And that all occurs in the first 4 minutes of this film! Cut back to the beginning. It is Valentines Day in a Japanese classroom. A class featuring more than its share of freaky-looking students has had its chocolates and gifts confiscated. They are all p*ssed. After class a young pretty girl offers a young guy some chocolate, thereby expressing an interest. The young bloke's self proclaimed girlfriend takes immediate offense to his accepting it. Once he bites into the chocolate though he is a little perturbed to find it is filled with blood. Kooky. For some unknown reason the class has several cliques, one a group of wrist cutters who spend their extra curricular hours slashing into their flesh ("Not too deep, never hit an artery!"), another full of wannabe African Americans, replete with full black makeup, horribly out of place afros and plumped up lips. And you only think I'm kidding. Now the jilted girlfriend's Dad happens to be a mad scientist with an oversexed nurse as his offsider. He finds that the blood from the chocolate can regenerate life, something that proves handy later on. To cut to the chase Vampire Girl comes out and explains herself, she wants the guy to accept her blood so they can be together forever, unfortunately when confronted by the ex-girlfriend the ex-GF ends up quite dead. The body is given to the mad scientist Dad who regenerates her and Hey Presto; Vampire Girl Vs Frankenstein Girl There is more reliance on computer generated imagery here than there was in Avatar. More bodily fluids are spilled in this than in 1,000 porn films, and more limbs are lost than in a Saving Private Ryan marathon. The film only exists to showcase the lengths Japanese crazy people will go to in order to justify insane gore effects and nutso plot devices, and I guess top that end it is very effective. Only if you've seen one of these things you really don't need to sit through another, as mild amusement rapidly turns to major bemusement, as the escalating series of WTF? Moments rapidly lose impact and the film inevitably loses steam. Which is exactly why the filmmakers were right in showing the climactic showdown in the very first scene, otherwise by that stage few would care. Final Rating - 5 / 10. The whole thing is very severed tongue in bloodstained cheek. That doesn't really mean it's very good, but as a curio it is at least interesting.

VAMPIRE GIRL VS. FRANKENSTEIN GIRL is a cult/crazy slice of Japanese high school madness from the director who made TOKYO GORE POLICE. It's a similarly blood-soaked tale that plays out as a live action manga, with a ton of snappy editing, colourful visuals, pop songs, and a finely judged couple of performances from the lead actors.

These films seem to be love 'em or hate 'em experiences and I frequently found myself in the former camp. Although the material is very basic, this is a lot more fun than an equivalent American B-movie, take for example a typical Troma flick. There's more wit in the dialogue and the comedy, which comes thick and fast and is particularly offbeat, is actually funny. The film also works as a satire, exploring various fashions in Japan: the passion for Lolita girls, the bizarre ganguro girls, and even self-harming. The jokes aimed at the Chinese are laugh out loud hilarious.

There are plenty of low rent action scenes to enjoy here, along with some enjoyably awful special effects which seem to make a virtue out of their sheer inanity. The gore is thick and plentiful but done in a jokey, BRAINDEAD style, so becomes quite an amusement too. And that final fight scene between the two characters is truly something to behold...

Jeez, where do I start? This is without doubt one of the worst films I've ever seen. Music: awful - it has no place in a horror film, even a 'comedy' one. Plot: awful - the opening sequence makes no sense whatsoever in the context of the rest of the film (I can't believe I found the staying power to watch it from start to finish); there are bizarre elements of Japanese school culture 'satirised' in the film that are at best clumsy, and at worst totally unfunny and making a mess of the what little coherence the film would otherwise possess. These are the kind of scattergun attempts at humour that make the '...Movie' franchise so damned awful. Effects: very cheap, and awful. I'm all for low-budget B-movie horrors having a place in the market, but this film gives the genre a bad name. Acting: not too bad for the fare on offer, I grudgingly accept. Directing: see Plot.

I just hope this film's 'cult' status remains very small!

Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl is the blood-soaked adaptation of a popular manga. Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police, Helldriver) helms this masterpiece of Japanese new-wave ultra-violent splatter, a genre most notable for its juxtaposition of cute actresses and extreme violence. In typical Nishimura fashion, the insanity meter is cranked up to 11. Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl stars gravure idol (and full-time goddess) Yukie Kawamura and Eri Otoguro (Onechanbara: the Movie) in the respective title roles as they battle for the affection of their classmate Jugon (Takumi Saito). It also features a great cameo by the queen of Japanese horror, Eihi Shiina (Audition, Tokyo Gore Police).

When Monami (Kawamura), our Vampire Girl, transfers to a new high school in Tokyo, she soon attracts the ire of the resident lolligirl clique, and their bratty leader Keiko (Otoguro), by giving Jyugon a blood-filled chocolate for Valentine's Day. It isn't long before the school nurse becomes aware that something isn't quite right with a sample of Monami's blood and passes it along to Keiko's father, who also happens to be the vice-principal and a (very!) mad scientist, the self-proclaimed successor to Dr. Frankenstein. Upon confronting Monami, Keiko ends up dead and (you guessed it) is rebuilt by her father as Frankenstein Girl and an epic battle ensues that is truly mind-blowing in both its violence and its creativity.

Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl boasts the traditional gore effects for which Nishimura is best known: gallons of blood-spray, uncomfortable wrist-cutting scenes, and disturbingly distorted human bodies. It also contains a lot of fairly well-executed CGI that doesn't really detract from overall immersion in the film.Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl never takes itself too seriously and it's in this frame of mind that the film is best enjoyed. It incorporates comedic elements, including the catchy J-Pop soundtrack, and a healthy dose of social satire which anyone familiar with Japanese pop-culture is sure to enjoy. There are several memorable scenes, my personal favorite being when Monami dances in a rain of blood as it sprays from the neck of a recent victim, a scene which, in my mind, captures the essence of what this genre is all about.

In fairness, Nishimura's films, and pink violence in general, is definitely not everyone's cup of tea. If you are a fan of other films in the genre, such as Machine Girl, Meatball Machine, and Tokyo Gore Police, you will love this film. If you are a gorehound with a penchant for old-school special effects and horror-comedies like Re-Animator, Dead Alive and Evil Dead 2, you will love this film. If, however, you happen to be a close-minded film elitist who insists on little things like continuity, realism, and unquestionable plot structures, you will probably spontaneously combust within the first five minutes (probably around the time that Monami rips the skin from the face of a Gothic-lolita zombie with her teeth, exposing an animated skull).

When it's all said and done, Nishimura provides us with a fresh and exciting take on these two iconic, but worn-out and often predictable, monster stereotypes. The true beauty of films like Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl lies in their unpredictability and refusal to be constrained within the existent boundaries of film logic, physics, or even political correctness. Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl epitomizes what this genre is all about and, while not quite as good as Tokyo Gore Police (but, then again, what is?), it is definitely one hell of a awesome movie.

There's some good, some bad, and a lot of ugly to be found in Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl. The ugliness is the point. It's trashy and obscenely gory and all made in very bad taste. Well, the bad taste kind of leads to the bad, actually. I think it went a little far in being provocative with some side characters, and some of its humor would be the kind some might excuse teenagers making (then again, maybe not), but it's just kind of sad to see a film made by adults go there. The tiniest amount of slack can be cut for the bad taste being the point, but still, there are barriers here some won't overcome. I half thought about not going on with it, even though the opening scene was incredible.

The final act kind of justifies the heinous stuff. It doesn't justify that stuff well, but there's something approaching a point to it all. And the final act is fun in a similar way to the opening scene. It delivers on showing a fight between Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (over a boy they both love, at that); that can't be denied. Seeing the assistants of the monsters get their own fight was fun, too. It would be funny to travel back in time and screen this in the 1930s or '40s, to a crowd of people expecting a Universal Monsters versus movie, just to see how people would react (and count how many people would pass out).

Probably don't watch this, if you're most people. It's almost kind of good in so far as delivering what it promises in the title, and for having some genuinely insane stuff. The gory violence is wild, and some of the monster designs are quite impressive. I think some of this film is awful, but some of it's quite funny and entertaining. Enter at your own risk.

A transfer student shows up at Tokyo high school. Then strange things starts happening

One 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.

It appears that some people don't like or don't get this genre. This movie was SO over the top and SO wildly improbable and inappropriate that I just relished every-single-second of it. It sparked a new interest in the over the top Asian gore-comedy for me. This one almost reminded me of a mash-up of Kill Bill with the Power Rangers.

If you are looking for serious and gory Asian Horror, stick with Takashi Miike and the likes. This move (and others like it that I have since watched) is pure camp and fun. The lead character is just cute as a button, and her actions throughout the film are nicely juxtaposed with her looks. Sweet girl...blood swords... I'm actually planning on buying this for my collection.