Horror Editor Angela is enjoying her early birthday present of another classic born in 1977, Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu, but she is doing so with a new, learned perspective of how much the social and political landscape of post-war Japan informed the utterly bizarre, gory Pee-Wee’s Playhouse of haunted houses, thanks to this video essay from Kogonada at No Film School. Check it out.
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