Films like Hausu.
Hausu (1977) reads as Warm, breathless, measured horror / surreal, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a stubborn streak of hope.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.
These are Hausu’s neighbours — where are yours?
Pick the mood of the night and we pull a film that fits it, on the same twelve axes. Then everyone on the couch gets something to watch for.
Pick tonight’s film by mood →