This Trailer is Bizarre...And Awesome
Not only is this trailer for Nobuhiko Obayahshi’s 1977 fantasy horror film Hasu aka House the strangest trailer you are likely to see, it also looks to be one of the strangest horror films you are likely to see. Thanks to a renewed interest in Obayahshi’s flick, Janus Films have theatrical screenings planned across the US before House eventually hits DVD for the first time. Hit the jump for the trailer, image gallery and more.
Theatrical playdates include:
January 15 - January 21
New York, NY - IFC Center
February 26 - March 4
Chicago, IL - Gene Siskel Film Center
March 12 - March 16
Los Angeles, CA - New Beverly Cinema
April 17
San Francisco, CA - Castro Theatre
Full list of playdates and more (pick up a House t-shirt or poster while you are there!) at the Janus Films web site.
Official description from the Janus Films site:
How to describe Nobuhiko Obayahshi’s 1977 movie House? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby Doo as directed by Dario Argento? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home, only to come face to face with evil spirits, bloodthirsty pianos, and a demonic housecat. Too absurd to be genuinely terrifying, yet too nightmarish to be merely comic, House seems like it was beamed to Earth from another planet. Or perhaps the mind of a child: the director fashioned the script after the eccentric musings of his eleven-year-old daughter, then employed all the tricks in his analog arsenal (mattes, animation, and collage) to make them a visually astonishing, raucous reality. Never before released in the United States, and a bona fide cult classic in the making, House is one of the most exciting genre discoveries in years.
