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Cinema 10 to present “Hausu/House” Oct. 26 in Potsdam

Posted 10/24/15

POTSDAM -- Cinema 10 presents “Hausu/House” on Monday, Oct. 26, at 7:15 p.m. at the Potsdam Roxy Theater, 20 Main St., as part of its 2015 fall season. Performing live at the Roxy, the Andrew …

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Cinema 10 to present “Hausu/House” Oct. 26 in Potsdam

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POTSDAM -- Cinema 10 presents “Hausu/House” on Monday, Oct. 26, at 7:15 p.m. at the Potsdam Roxy Theater, 20 Main St., as part of its 2015 fall season.

Performing live at the Roxy, the Andrew Alden Ensemble will combine traditional instrumentation with the techniques of live circuit bending and analog tape looping to create experimental sound effects in their score for this hallucinatory cult favorite.

House tells the wacky story of a Japanese schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home, only to come face to face with evil spirits, bloodthirsty pianos, attacking futons and a demonic housecat.

“At times it feels as if Mr. Ôbayashi threw everything—every movie he had ever seen, every idea he had ever entertained—at the screen, using the horror genre as a big box into which he could combine the bits and pieces he wanted to sample from avant-garde cinema, Looney Tunes cartoons, schlock Italian horror and martial arts movies,” Manohla Dargis of The New York Times observes of the movie she termed “must-see-now.”

The movie was made in 1977 in Japan and was directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi.

The film is 88 minutes and is not rated. It contains; nudity, violence, generally fake looking gore.

Tickets are $3.50 for students and seniors and $4.50 for general admission.