The Bloodthirsty Trilogy [Blu-ray]

With the most recent Arrow Video Halloween sale on, I decided I'd pick up some good old horror movies. I picked up some Vincent Price, Lucio Fulci and some utter madness called, Tetsuo. When I made my purchase, I was recommend a box-set I had never heard of, The Bloodthirsty Trilogy. When I saw its ultra cool slip case art, I decided to check it out.After making my way through Youtube looking for some information and a trailer, I immediately bought this collection from Amazon. I saw a description that basically described these films as Japanese takes on Hammer Horror's vampire movies. These opinions are not wrong. This collection presented in 1080p is a collection of three films titled, The Vampire Doll, Lake of Dracula and Evil of Dracula. Each film features an uncompressed Mono 1.0 PCM audio, the original Japanese soundtracks with newly translated English subtitles and some interesting extras.The films features in The Bloodthirsty Trilogy are not what I'd call anything special and despite what their title says, they really don't have anything to do with the Dracula story. They were however easy to watch and highly enjoyable. If you're like me and enjoy the previously mentioned Hammer films, you'll definitely get a kick out of these three movies. The films are around the 70-80 minute mark and don't dragged too long. In fact, they go by rather quickly. A bonus considering it could be so easy to make this sort of film rather dull. The stories are quite simply three movies about suspicions of vampirism with the main characters investigating and handling the problem. You'll find some nice vampire make up, as well as some pretty good acting pulling off the whole walking undead thing. There's a few moments that are very eerie. For those that like it, there's some good subtle and unsubtle gore. Mostly at the end of each film. There's a little nudity in the third film but nothing over the top. It's all very brief.I've got to hand it to Arrow Video, for films this old and unique, they did a great job of remastering the prints. The quality for The Bloodthirsty Trilogy is right on point with great clarity and sharpness. There's little to no print damage and the colours look very strong without being over saturated. You can tell the films are quite old but the quality of the source doesn't show it. These three films have aged rather well and look fantastic on bluray.The Bloodthirsty Trilogy is not going to set anyone's world on fire but it will definitely charm and entertain people who are into their Hammeresque vampire films. There's a good number of eerie moments with very few annoying jump scares. The films are all short and sweet. They will make a great binge if you feel like doing something fun over Halloween.

Fairly entertaining Hammer Horror inspired vampire movies from Toho, the creators of the Godzilla franchise.

Arrived on time great movie collection

Bought this for a hammer horror fiend and they loved it.

The presentation quality of these films left me bald. Arrow Video really did that with this release and here’s hoping they can bring more Toho titles in the future!

Three classic Japanese horror fantastically restored and presented by Arrow...Essential for fans of Asian horror & the classic style of Hammer

Japanese take on Hammer Horror,all three films could have come from the Hammer stable and have the look and feel of them with a Japanese twist.All three films look fantastic.

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Die Box ist super.Die Filme unterhaltsam und amüsant.

Arrow Video no decepciona y de nuevo se marca una edición cuidada (con contraportada interior) de una selección muy bien escogida. No se han olvidado de los extras. El único pero es que la edición tiene solo Dos discos para tres películas pero la compresión de calidad es muy buena. Solo cuenta con subtítulos en inglés.

Brilliant collection of vintage Japanese Vampire movies!

In absoluter Topqualität, was sowohl Bild auch als Ton betrifft, und mit englischen Untertiteln versehen kommt diese feine Zusammenstellung japanischer Vampirfilme daher. Von einigen wenigen Splatter- und Goremomenten abgesehen wirken die sehr atmosphärischen Filme ein bisschen wie aus der Zeit gefallen. Absolut empfehlenswert für Anhänger des gepflegten Gruselns und eine schöne Ergänzung für jede Horrorfilmsammlung.