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On Sunday, I went to see ‘Hausu’ at the Northwest Film Forum with Nicole. The description on the theater website read:<\/p>\n

“Get ready to have your mind blown! This exceptionally wild and funny horror-fantasy is like nothing you\u2019ve ever seen before\u2014we guarantee it. A teenage girl brings six of her classmates along for a summer vacation at her grandmother\u2019s country estate. What the girls don’t know is that grandma is a ghost and her house is haunted. They start to catch on when an evil housecat convinces a piano to eat one of the girls\u2026and then it starts getting weird! Hausu is a truly absurd and thrilling rediscovery.”<\/i><\/p>\n

At one point during the film, I leaned over to Nicole and said that I must have accidentally ingested acid at some point, because that’s the only way what I was seeing onscreen made sense. This movie has, in no particular order: dancing skeletons, magic cats, creepy aunts, a man made out of bananas, detached limbs performing kung-fu moves, a bottomless pit disguised as a girl, magic oceans of blood that peel off clothing, and a woman who exists almost entirely in slow-motion with floaty scarves. I didn’t expect it to be nearly as funny as it was, but now that I’m aware of its existence, it will have to be included in the lineup at some future Blood & Guts & Punch & Pie.<\/p>\n