Hausu + Black Lizard

Monday, April 7 Hausu (7:30); Black Lizard (10pm)
Tuesday, April 8 Black Lizard (10pm); Hausu (10)
Wednesday, April 9 Hausu (7:30); Black Lizard (10pm)
Admission: Free, $10 minimum
reservations are recommended

Note: A secret buddy has lent me these very special copies of these films. You will most likely never get to see them again soon.

After watching this trailer for Hausu (1977), please explain why you wouldn't pay $0 for this awesome film that will most likely never play again in the entire US of A this year:

I loved this review on IMDB:

Oh man, "Hausu" is an extremely weird and grotesque horror parody. It is also supremely stylish and visually mindblowing. The plot of "House" is quite easy to describe: seven schoolgirls travel to visit grandmother at her spooky old house. It's not clear whose grandmother she is,as every character in the movie is referred to by a nickname and they all call the old woman Ojii. The house turns out to be a demon that wants to eat them and grandmother is apparently a cat. Words can't describe how positively bizarre this movie is. It plays like the cross between Suspiria and Beetle Juice. There are plenty scenes of kitschy humour plus some scares for example when one of the girls tries to sneak the watermelon out,she finds a human head down the well instead. One girl is even eaten by a piano in a very gory fashion and the dead victim's fingers are still playing the piano after being bitten off. 9 out of 10.

But do not neglect the other film on our Double Feature bill. Black Lizard (1968) is a bizarre cultural artifact that's never been released on DVD. Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale) directs and Yukio Mishima wrote the screenplay. And again, I'll let the IMDB commenter manpower57 take it from here:

Kenji Fukasaku's BLACK LIZARD (1958) was released in the US by CINEVISTA in the early 90's. The movie received a focused and limited release in the US, but its existence in video has developed a cult following that has gained momentum as the years has passed. With the totally bizarre appearances of then-Japan's most famous Kabuki theater transvestite Akihiro Murayama as the title role Black Lizard, Yukio Mishima's cameo as a "statue" or maybe even as an eerie stuffed human figure; a screen play by Mishima based on a story of one of Japan's most famous horror writers, Rampo Edogawa, and even music by electronic "planet music" guru Isao Tomita, this movie reads as a who's who in the arts and literature in Japan in the 60's. But many movies in the past created by geniuses have failed in delivering an intellectual as well as a cinematic punch. This is NOT the case with "Black Lizard". From the psychedelic settings, the poetic dialogue and tragicomic developments, the movie succeeds both as high-art "manga" as well as a well-thought piece of "agit-prop". Few movies deliver so much substance hidden under so much flash; it is one experience that has to be felt viscerally as well as intellectually. Unfortunately, the VHS version is out of print, and I do not know of any plans for a DVD release as of this writing. We wait anxiously until someone revives this totally bizarre and wonderful piece of art and it is released in DVD format for a new generation of anime-educated viewers.