Living Skeleton

Living Skeleton

1968 · 81 min · JA · 5.5 (24 votes)
Dir. Hiroshi Matsuno · Starring Kikko Matsuoka, Yasunori Irikawa, Masumi Okada, Asao Uchida, Asao Koike, Toshihiko Yamamoto · Music Noboru Nishiyama
Horror

A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape his wife. Three years later her twin sister is kidnapped by the same pirates, who begin to die strange deaths...

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A grim, unsettling journey into folk horror and supernatural vengeance. It's a slow burn of dread, punctuated by visceral shocks and a pervasive sense of melancholy. This is exploitation cinema with a surprisingly somber, gothic heart.

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