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
History Extra Podcast: The story of modern Japan. Author Christopher Harding deconstructs modern Japan and the world events that brought them there.
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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