17. Halloween Horror: Onibaba (1964)

Support the show! Prepare for a month of spoooooky Halloween episodes as we kick it off with a film many regard as the first example of Japanese horror cinema.  Pits of doom, possessed (?) masks, naked people running through fields of intimidating grass--Kaneto Shindo’s Onibaba has it all. Sources Bradshaw, Peter at the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2010/oct/15/onibaba-kaneto-shindo-devil-woman Eggert, Brian at Deep Focus Review: https://deepfocusreview.com/definitives/onibaba/ TVTropes.org: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Onibaba Wikipedia