ONIBABA (DEMON WOMAN) + Halloween Mask Contest!
Fri, Oct 31
|Epsilon Spires
THE SPIRIT OF HARVEST film series continues HALLOWEEN NIGHT with a chilling Japanese folktale driven by primal emotions, dark eroticism and stunning images both lyrical and macabre... Thematic Treats and Autumnal Cocktails Provided! +Enter A Mask Contest And Win Prizes!
Time & Location
Oct 31, 2025, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
TRICKS AND TREATS PROVIDED WITH YOUR TICKET! Wear a mask to enter our contest and win prizes including gift certificates to local businesses! Categories include: Scariest, Best Homemade Craftsmanship, and Most Original!
FUN FACT: William Friedkin, the director of The Exorcist, considered Onibaba the most terrifying movie he had ever seen, and the film's Japanese Noh-theater-inspired mask inspired the look of the demon Pazuzu in The Exorcist.
Onibaba (1964, Dir. Kaneto Shindo, 103 Mins.) Based on a Buddhist fable, Kaneto Shindo’s Onibaba is a singular cinematic experience. Set deep within the wind-swept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. Forced by necessity to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, they dump the corpses down a deep, dark hole and live off of their meager spoils. When a bedraggled neighbor returns from the distant skirmishes, lust, jealousy, and rage threaten to…
Tickets
ONIBABA!
$15.00
SLIDING SCALE TICKET!
$
Total
$0.00