The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond (1960)

Ghost Cat is creaky in places, but it appears to have made the best of what it had to work with. What kept my interest mostly was the red and green lighting similar to what Hitchcock was doing around the same era, the excellent music and the inventive layering. A more substantial depth of field would've improved it greatly. However, lenses cost money and it’s clearly a low budget affair. It’s not a perfect film, but it’s culturally fascinating.
The seizure-inducing editing at the end was perhaps a mistake. It feels out of place with the slow building eeriness of the rest of the picture.

2½ hairy hands out of 5