A group of teenage girls go on a countryside vacation and end up fighting for their lives in this layered Japanese horror-comedy. We discuss pre- and post-war Japan and Japanese cinema, Hausu’s multi-step inception, bakeneko, and My Little Ponies. (Friendship is magic, everyone.)
Recommended reading:
- House: The Housemaidens by Chuck Stephens
- Trick or Truth: Revisiting Obayashi’s House by kogonada (video)
- Director Nobuhiko Obayashi on Film, Dreams, and Living for 400 Years by Alec Jordan
- What Was The Japanese Economic Miracle? from Worldatlas
- Heart of Weirdness: The Story Behind Hausu by Henry Graham
- Why Hausu remains one of the weirdest horror films ever made by Taryn McCabe
- Beauty is the Beast: Suzuki Sumiko and Prewar Japanese Horror Cinema by Michael E. Crandol
- Hausu (1977) from Wikipedia
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