Onibaba

Mm.

Onibaba, which I have never seen.

Yeah.

Supposed to be good.

It was just such a, such a fun film to watch, so I was impressed by that one.

But I thought on today's podcast, I would have a little chat about some horror films that are on streaming services that you may have at the moment that I would really recommend.

Because horror genre is pretty subjective, but there is some really good shouts of films to watch.

Um, I am also gonna touch up upon a couple of films I don't recommend as much.

Some of them are gonna be quite hot takes, I think.

Um, but largely I'm just gonna try and go over some I really recommend you watching this October before the end of the month for Halloween season.

Now, I feel like it wouldn't be, it wouldn't be fair for me to talk horror films and ones I'd recommend without talking about one of probably my favorite horror films that isn't like one of the big ones.

Like, yeah, you have Scream, you have, you know, a handful like The Shining, you've got Misery, you've got Get Out.

Anyway, the next one definitely isn't AI.

It's Onibaba, 1964.

I can't believe I haven't seen this before.

For years I thought I had.

It turns out that the film I thought that I had seen, that I actually have seen, is The Seven Samurai, which is not Onibaba at all.

Anyway, this one is directed by Kaneto Shindo, also written by that director.

Great film.

The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hehachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

Masks.

yes I picked in my opinion the ultimate mask movie Onibaba

oh yeah great choice

so good I mean the whole premise is about her using this mask and the mask kind of like overtaking it's awesome

You know, I think that, you know...

I see later on like Onibaba like comes to mind with like some of that imagery.

And Carrefour, who is just this, my heart goes out to, but is treated as something scary, but at the same time, like she's frightened by him, but then he's leading the way.

And like also there to help because it's revealed that Carrefour They also want to help this woman, but Mrs. Rand kind of prevents that from happening.

It was written by Kaneda Shindo.

He did Kuro Niko and Onibaba.

He just wrote this one.

And it follows a generations of a small fishing village in Japan that the village is obsessed with killing this whale.

There's a couple by Kaneto Shindo, specifically from, from the 1960s.

Um, uh, Onibaba and Kuroneko.

To be honest, I have just seen a, recently saw a, a, a trailer for s- for a game called, like, Suzumi Kaidan or something like that.

I've not quite remembered the name, but it's, uh, it's a black and white first-person survival horror game set amongst a load of, like, young bamboo, and it basically looks like Onibaba.

Right.

Which maybe won't tell a lot, but then-

Onibaba is just a great pick.

It's what I...