Vampire Clay

Vampire Clay is another low budget J-horror flick that I discover after Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (2012) in 2019 and just like the title the whole movie is as cheesy as it can get when it comes to acting, practical effects and one hell of an ending that makes you look forward to the director next movie.

It's been a while since I last saw a film this kind of weird & badly funny. Specially when it comes to weird, bizarre or super-unusual stuffs, then then the Japanese filmmakers have always been the front runner in this field who often offers something so over-the-top ridiculous that may eventually going to surprise you with shock & laughter! In his first feature-length horror flick VAMPIRE CLAY, Soichi Umezawa depicts a story about an evil pile of modeling clay that terrorizes a rural art school! Yeah...you read that right, it's about a demonic pile of clay that's got thirsts for blood & revenge. But to tell a story like this, its 'seriousness' becomes a problem for the film as it gradually turns into a convoluted & kind of mundanely treated funny weird piece.

Vampire Clay was, much to my surprise, an incredible independent film with a relatively unknown cast. The epitome of a, "Midnight Movie," it stands on top of the strangeness scale, and shows you images you never thought you'd see in your lifetime. More of a laugh-'er than a horror flick, the slapstick antics will inspire giggling fits. The only drawback was a lack of stop-motion animation sequences, which I felt would have benefited the movie in a big way.

I really like this movie.. I wasn't very keen to watch at 1st by seeing the title and the picture looks like some cheap lousy movie but luckily i did watch it... Never judge book by it's cover.. I like how the story pick up and ended.. I surely recommend my friends to watch it too..

This 2017 Japanese horror movie was definitely unique, I will say that much.

When I sat down in 2022 to watch the 2017 Japanese horror movie "Chi O Sû Nendo" (aka "Vampire Clay") it was without ever having heard about the movie. But my preference for horror movies and Asian cinema made me give writer and director Sôichi Umezawa's 2017 movie a chance.

The storyline is pretty far out there. Sure the movie gets points for being original, but at the same time the storyline was just so far fetched and somewhat stupid that it also took away from the atmosphere and overall enjoyment of the movie. I mean, sculpting clay that comes alive to consume blood and flesh and take on physical form? Sure, why not, I suppose. I am sure that there is an audience out there for a movie such as "Chi O Sû Nendo", I just wasn't particularly enjoying it.

I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, but I have to say that the actors and actresses definitely put on good enough performances, despite of me not enjoying the script and plot.

For a horror movie then "Chi O Sû Nendo" just didn't satisfy my horror needs, so it was a dull and somewhat pointless horror experience for me.

My rating of "Chi O Sû Nendo" lands on a three out of ten stars, simply because it was hard to take vampiric sculpting clay serious as a dangerous killing entity.