A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to stray to their cabin with sex, and kill them. All goes well until a local cop shows up and, then, an old relation.
Direction
Shindō at 91, still ruthlessly uncompromising.
Acting
Otake's feral maternal desperation is unforgettable.
Cinematography
Claustrophobic cabin becomes its own hungry mouth.
Director
Kaneto Shindō
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shindō filmed this at 91, making it one of the oldest directors to tackle such transgressive material.
Plays like a grotesque inversion of his own *Onibaba*—another mother-daughter survival horror, now with added sexual economy.
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