Hausu

Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi, Japanese (with English Subtitles), 1977

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Wed 9 June 2010 // 19:30 / Cinema

This tripped out, kaleidoscopic and thoroughly Japanese comedy-horror features a murderous lampshape, a creepy cat and seven teenage girls murdered one by one by an old woman’s possessed mansion.

Satirical and confounding, Hausu comes off like an eastern Evil Dead on acid; ultra schlocky but distinctly eerie.