Name: House [Hausu] (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)
Start: 2024-10-24T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University

Film Screening:
"House (Hausu)"
(Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977, 88 min, Japan, Japanese with English subtitles, 35mm)
Special 35MM Screening!
A work of dense visual and technial complexity, "House" (Hausu) is perhaps best remembered as a psychedelic, cinematic pop-up fairytale of the Grimm brothers variety, but Obayashi’s darkly comic fable of seven schoolgirls is deceptive in its simplicity. While the girls’ stay in a haunted house results in a series of sinister, stylized, and undeniably silly slashings, "House" subtly explores the wartime trauma their parents’ generation endured. A midnight movie turned cult classic, "House" – with its hypercinematic unreality of candy-coloured skies, optically printed collages, and rapid fire editing – is undoubtedly best experienced on film.
"A head-on collision between "The Evil Dead" (1981) and "Yellow Submarine" (1968) – a fevered flight of horror-fantasy like no other." — Sarah Cleary, BFI
"Disney had his seven dwarves, Kurosawa his seven samurai. For Obayashi (with the help of his eleven-year-old daughter, Chigumi, who provided many of the story ideas), it was seven teenage damsels in distress—"Carrie" raised to the seventh power, "Suspiria" spiraling ever upward into some psychedelic seventh heaven. "House" is a film that must be seen to be believed, and then seen again to believe that you really did see what you think you saw." — Chuck Stephens, Criterion
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