Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the Daffy Duck/ Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1952 Fool Coverage, directed by Robert McKimson.
The short reuses the animation for the stampeding elephant from Room and Bird. The animation is repeated five times to make it look like it was a whole herd of elephants stampeding through.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to share with the most recent Puddles Pity Party video.
I'm hoping this means Puddles will be posting more videos soon.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1964 Japanese horro/ drama, Onibaba, (The Demon) directed by Kaneto Shindō, and starring Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, and Kei Satō. The film is based on the Shin Buddhist parable of yome-odoshi-no men or niku-zuki-no-men, in which a mother used a mask to scare her daughter from going to the temple. She was punished by the mask sticking to her face, and when she begged to be allowed to remove it, she was able to take it off, but it took the flesh of her face with it. Kaneto Shindo’s chilling folktale Onibaba conjures a nightmarish vision of humankind’s deepest desires and impulses.
Shindo, who died in 2012 at the age of 100, wrote over 200 screenplays for directors such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Kozaburo Yoshimura, and Yasujiro Shimazu, as well as writing and directing more than forty films of his own. Shindo's breakthrough film as director was Children of Hiroshima, a docudrama about children who survived the atomic bombing in that city (of which Shindo was a native) during World War II. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable (maybe leave a light on), and watch Onibaba.
The demon mask used in the movie inspired William Friedkin to use a similar design for the makeup in subliminal shots of a white-faced demon in The Exorcist.
Demand Euphoria!
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