35mm screening of Nobuhiko Ôbayashi's 1977 horror-comedy 'Hausu' at The Trylon Cinema, part of the cinema's Halloween tradition.
The Trylon Cinema is bringing Hausu to 35mm on Thursday, October 29, as part of its Halloween tradition. It's the 1977 directorial debut of Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, a Japanese haunted-house horror-comedy that runs 88 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles.
The film started as a pitch to Toho inspired by the nightmares of Ôbayashi's nine-year-old daughter, Chigumi. Ôbayashi was a Hiroshima native who'd made his name in avant-garde commercials, and the studio greenlit the project barely three hours after he submitted the script—though they initially refused to let him direct it. He ended up casting mostly models he'd worked with in commercials and eschewed storyboards, shooting the effects in-camera so they'd look handmade and childlike. It was a financial success but a critical disaster at the time, with some reviewers calling it "the death of Japanese cinema."
Ôbayashi went on to make more than seventy films, always balancing humanity with a boundless imaginative vision. Seeing Hausu on 35mm gives those handmade effects the room they need to breathe, and it fits right into Trylon's Halloween programming. If you've never seen it, it's a wild ride of a movie that's earned its cult status over the decades.
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The screening is at The Trylon Cinema, 2820 E 33rd St, Minneapolis, MN 55406. The film runs 88 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles.
