The Living Skeleton

The Living Skeleton , Kyketsu Dokurosen? is a 1968 Japanese horror film directed by Hiroshi Matsuno. The films plot begins in the past where a gang of pirates commandeer a ship and kill everyone on board. Three years later in a seaside village, a Catholic priest Masumi Okada has offered shelter to the Saeko Kikko Matsuoka as her twin sister, Yoriko also Matsuoka has disappeared with her new husband at sea. Saeko later scuba dives with her boyfriend, the couple find a group of submerged human skeletons, chained together at the ankles near the ocean floor. That night, a ghost ship appears in the mist offshore as a voice from the ship calls out for Saeko.

The Living Skeleton was released in 1968 in Japan. It was released on DVD by the Criterion Collection in a box set on November 20, 2012. The other films in the box set included The X from Outer Space, Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell, and Genocide.Slant Magazine referred to The Living Skeleton as representing the peak of Shochikus dalliance with horror convention and a chilling and genuinely unnerving blackandwhite update of the bygone kaidan tradition. The Austin Chronicle referred to the film as probably the most conventional of Schochikus sic horror releases ........

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