Hausu

Hausu follows a group of seven teenage girls who travel to a remote countryside home belonging to one girl's mysterious aunt, only to be consumed by supernatural, increasingly bizarre forces. Director Nobuhiko Obayashi crafted a wildly experimental horror-fantasy using avant-garde editing, painted backdrops, and surreal imagery unlike anything in mainstream cinema. The film has since become a beloved cult classic, celebrated for its anarchic creativity and uniquely dreamlike terror.

• Director Nobuhiko Obayashi's young daughter inspired the film's surreal storyline.
• The film flopped in Japan but gained massive cult status later.
• Obayashi used experimental techniques borrowed from his TV commercial work.
• The haunted cat painting was a key visual conceived early on.
• Toho produced it hoping to replicate Jaws-style blockbuster summer success.

• A house that eats girls.
• You can't eat a watermelon that big!
• Auntie, your house is beautiful.
• The house is alive... it's hungry.
• Fantasy is the only truth.