Cinema was losing steam in 1970s Japan. Television reigned culturally supreme, and the few film studios that were sponsoring projects — albeit with less capital than in previous decades — mainly ...

In Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 1977 horror classic, House (a.k.a. Hausu), a band of plucky vacationing schoolgirls make the fatal mistake of spending summer vacation at a very hungry haunted house. After ...

Hausu Mountain has released a staggering array of music in the nine years since the label was founded: longform drone and lysergic easy listening; slow-motion techno and blown-out breakcore; hymns to ...

The Scumbag Cinema series continues at Antenna Gallery with a couple of offbeat haunted house films. The Japanese half, Hausu (1977), is a Japanophile's treasure with its bizarre blend of cutesy ...

In October, the University of North Carolina Press published Marc Masters’s history of the cassette, High Bias, which singles out experimental Chicago tape label Hausu Mountain for praise. Doug Kaplan ...

In 2012 Doug Kaplan and Max Allison, both members of local noise outfit Good Willsmith, launched an experimental microlabel called Hausu Mountain—maybe you remember the Reader covering the label’s ...

Penn State Altoona faculty members Brian Onishi and Jeff Stoyanoff have released a new episode of their "Horror Joy" podcast.

When will human beings be free to live their futures — not to mention their various present-tense existences — without the threat of destruction? That question, and its desire for earnest reply, ...

Portland band Hausu's debut album -- and one of my honorable mentions for best of the year so far -- Total is out today via Hardly Art. Along with its release, the post-hardcore group has shared a ...