Yōkai Monsters: Spook Warfare (1968)

Treasure hunters rummaging with a pickaxe in the ruins of Babylonia accidentally awaken an evil that’s been snoozing for four millennia. For some reason it flies to Japan to feed on the inhabitants of a small town.
The first Yōkai Monsters film has an antagonist with a head like a veiny asparagus, but the story throws much that makes me happy-clap about Japanese cinema into one bizarre mix: jidaigeki, tokusatsu, swordplay, ghosts, fantasy, weird folklore, horror, vampires, demons and more. And I learned that even a friendly rokurokubi gives me wiggins.

3½ other faces out of 5