Name: Southend CineScene presents: Hausu (House, 1977)
Start: 2025-11-05T18:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-05T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Beecroft Art Gallery

Southend CineScene presents: Hausu (House, 1977)

A surreal Japanese cult horror: a haunted house unleashes bizarre, nightmarish delights in Obayashi’s unforgettable Hausu (1977).
About this Event

Step into the surreal with Nobuhiko Obayashi’s cult Japanese horror-fantasy Hausu — a kaleidoscopic fever dream that blends haunted house chills with pop-art comedy and delirious visual invention.

When a schoolgirl and her friends visit her eccentric aunt’s countryside mansion, what begins as a playful summer holiday quickly descends into the bizarre. Furniture devours guests, a piano plays (and bites) of its own accord, and a white cat’s gaze seems to hold sinister power.

Often described as “Jaws meets Scooby-Doo by way of Dali,” Hausu is a dazzling collision of horror, slapstick, and psychedelic spectacle — a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience that must be seen to be believed.