Starting this Thursday, Bookmans Underground Cinema presents an exclusive engagement: House at Madcap Theaters. For just $8, House (35mm) will air on Thursday at 8:00 p.m., and on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 6:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m., and 10:00 p.m.

How do you describe this 1977 Nobuhiko Obayahshi’s film--perhaps as a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby Doo as directed by Dario Argento? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home, only to come face-to-face with evil spirits, bloodthirsty pianos, and a demonic housecat.

Too absurd to be genuinely terrifying, yet too nightmarish to be merely comic, House seems like it was beamed to Earth from another planet. Or perhaps from the mind of a child? The director fashioned the script after the eccentric musings of his 11-year-old daughter, then employed all the tricks in his analog arsenal (mattes, animation, and collage) to make them a visually astonishing, raucous reality. Never before released in the United States, and a bona-fide cult classic in the making, House is one of the most exciting genre discoveries in years.