# Vampire Clay (2018)

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**Original title**: *血を吸う粘土*
**Runtime**: 81 min
**Genres**: Horror
**Directed by**: Sôichi Umezawa
**Written by**: Sôichi Umezawa
**Starring**: Ena Fujita, Asuka Kurosawa, Yuyu Makihara, Ryô Shinoda, Momoka Sugimoto, Kyôka Takeda

> *Art so bad... it kills!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Glazed ceramics kilns puff steam at midnight. Overnight shipping crate splits open, gray clay oozing across studio floors like midnight tide. Art students wake to their sketches bleeding black tears.

Sôichi Umezawa’s VHS-era gore meets campus surrealism.

**Mood tags**: body-horror, surreal

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