Movies at Old Town Hall: House (1977)

Join us for a screening of a different movie every Wednesday night at 6:30pm at Old Town Hall, located down the street at 201 Delaware St. Admission is a sliding scale of $5-10, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Refreshments will be available for purchase.

On Wednesday, August 6, Movies @ Old Town Hall is proud to screen House, directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977.

How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home and comes face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions, all realized by Obayashi via mattes, animation, and collage effects. Equally absurd and nightmarish, House might have been beamed to Earth from some other planet.

House is in Japanese with English subtitles, 88 minutes long, and unrated.

You may also like the following events from New Castle Public Library:

• This Friday, 8th August, 10:30 am, Outdoor Storytime in New Castle
• This Saturday, 9th August, 10:00 am, Library on the Loose! in New Castle
• This Saturday, 9th August, 11:00 am, The Language of Flowers: A Drawing Workshop in New Castle

Also check out other Entertainment events in New Castle, Music events in New Castle.