Andrea and Alex kick off a new semester with a discussion of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House, a truly bizarre but exciting entry into the horror canon. Covering everything from witch-y house cats, to nuclear bombs to inter-generational tensions, this episode may never capture the unbridled energy of the film but it might unlock some doors…

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REQUIRED READING

House (aka Hausu). Dir Nobuhiko Obayashi. 1977.

EXTRA CREDIT

Video interview with Obayashi . The filmmaker talks about seeing the positive in the negative, the light in the darkness.

Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny . Full PDF of Freud’s theory of the uncanny and its ability to instill fear in us.

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