1977 · horror · surreal · cult
Hausu
Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi1h 28m1977
Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.
Our read: Hausu (1977) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal horror · surreal · cult entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, breathless, measured horror / surreal, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- surreal
- signature
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