Join us downtown for a free screening of one of cinema's most extravagant horror outings in one of Austin's swankiest new screening rooms at Wax Myrtle's!

7:30 - doors
8 - HAUSU

How To Do It: Enter through Wax Myrtle's 5th street entrance (between San Jacinto and Brazos) and head up to the 4th floor — we'll be screening the films in the Bayberry event space, where food and drinks will be available for purchase. Street parking available for the intrepid, or grab a rideshare!

About the film:
Tasked with writing a successful Jaws rip-off, new wave filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi was probably the wrong man for the job. Believing himself and other adults incapable of reproducing something so elementally terrifying, he sought inspiration from his young daughter, who provided him with a series of implausible scenes and ideas. He found a connection with his own childhood trauma of losing friends in the Hiroshima bombing. When no directors would touch it, Obayashi volunteered to make HAUSU himself with nobodies and friends.

The daughter of a professional film composer, Gorgeous is having trouble processing her grief in the wake of her mother’s death. She takes her friends (Fantasy, Melody, Mac, Prof, Sweet, and Kung Fu) to visit her aunt in hopes of reconnecting with the family’s past. Hosted by her aunt, their country home turns out to be haunted in the absolute weirdest way. Utterly uncategorizable, this tender fever dream has a reputation for its gonzo sequences of images, which it rightfully deserves. But what you’ll really love is the emotional core and DIY charm - HAUSU invents a language of its own through relentless innovation in camerawork and editing. 45 years later, it still has the power to bewitch and inspire curious cats of all ages.