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.

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..

I went to art college, where I spent most of my time honing my table football skills (I'm still a demon on the pitch); otherwise, it was a complete waste of two years. Still, at least I didn't have to contend with murderous art materials while I was there, which is what happens to students at the rural art prep class in Sôichi Umezawa's feature length directorial debut Vampire Clay.

The rather silly story sees teacher Aina (Asuka Kurosawa) discovering a bag of powdered clay buried near her studio. Aina takes the bag into the class, where its contents are made workable once more by student Kaori, who uses it to create a bust of herself. What Kaori doesn't realise it that the clay is vampiric, possessed by the spirit of a bitter artist, and it wants to feed. One by one, the students are attacked, only to return as clay-driven zombies with malleable features.

Having worked as a special makeup effects artist on numerous movies, Umezawa predictably packs his film full of effects, the living clay shifting shape like Carpenter's The Thing by way of David Cronenberg, with quivering phallic tentacles and pulsating 'skin', all achieved through the use of prosthetics and stop motion animation. With a rudimentary plot, perfunctory performances, and uninspired direction, it is up to Umezawa's effects to carry the show: fortunately, there's just enough weird and wacky stuff to make this a reasonably entertaining piece of schlock cinema despite the film's technical drawbacks.

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.

Just watched Vampire Clay (2017) directed by Soichi Umezawa. This film was an extremely nice surprise consisting of a group of art students being consumed by a killer clay that craves blood. The practical fx and prop work are a major standout and the overall pace of the film is brisk, to the point and an overall fun time.