The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch (Hebi musume to hakuhatsuma)

As lengthy as the title is this thing has so much sharp short dark tones going for it. Honestly I was attracted by this disturbing cover and it's connotations plus it was helped along by fellow Letterboxd friends espousing the disturbing virtues that are solidly…

pirateneckbeard

Too little Silver Witch-Witch Content, but this is still one heck of a moody gothic chiller about a young girl who moves back in with her parents and discovers a sibling may be a blood-sucking snake person. Imaginatively lensed by the director behind all the classic GAMERA…

Justin Decloux

Just a typical story of a secret snake sister that lives in a hidden room and shows up in stylized Dali nightmares.

laird

violent and unsettling giallo-style psych-out but, you know, for kids. young Sayuri gets picked up from an orphanage by a man claiming to be her long-lost father and taken home to her supposedly amnesiac mother, and a disfigured "sister" she never knew she had. some…

matt lynch

A childhood fantasy from Gamera director Noriaki Yuasa. The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch begins with a young girl being given back to her parents after spending her early childhood in an orphanage. She goes to the family home only to find her mother stricken with…

Slig001

Absolutely blown away by this little Japanese horror film. Essentially a story about an orphan who gets reunited with her biological family and nothing is what it seems. Father has to leave for a work trip, Mother seems all out of sorts, and her new “sister” essentially…

Jesse

Good story, great make-up and prosthetics, even greater use of a stunt-dummy.

Horror Syndrome

“Those soft little hands…” When dad’s away, the snake girl and the silver witch play. Our innocent orphan protagonist is so cute, looks like a young Joan Chen. Ends up being more a “my sister is a bully” than a “my sister is a snake” tale, which is disappointing. Some…

Gentry Austin

The artwork for this film is so compelling and gorgeous, not to mention the catchy hard to forget name. I mean just by reading the title one will learn so much. Sayuri is a young girl that tries to make the best of things. She is going back to live with her family after…

FKAGoregirl