It’s a Scream, Baby! Hausu and Why Comedy Enhances Horror

A closeup shot of a gray haired older woman winking at the camera with a detached eyeball in her mouth.

|Riccardo Williams| n October 2025, I saw Hausu for the first time ever at The Trylon. I was so moved that I immediately went home and could not find a way to get the movie out of my head. After sitting and thinking about it for about an hour, I asked one of my friends who I thought would like the movie to watch it with me over video call. And so I had seen… Continue reading

All Consuming: Hausu

Seven young women named Kung Fu, Melody, Gorgeous, Fantasy, Sweet, Prof and Mac stand in front of a bus stop with a mountain landscape behind them with blue skies and some clouds.

|Matthew Christensen| In 2006 I moved from Minneapolis to Japan to teach English in one of the large adult language schools they have there. It was a good job, and my students were an enjoyable eclectic assortment of businessmen and women, housewives, retired folks, and high school students. One of the textbooks contained a simplified retelling… Continue reading

A Hit Before It Was Made, And A Fairy Tale Ahead Of Its Time: How Nobuhiko Obayashi Made “House”

|Lucile Hanson| “How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava?” That quote is what opens up the description on the… Continue reading