10 Horror Movie Musicals You Simply Have To See

6. The Happiness Of The Katakuris

Anna and the Apocalypse
Shochiku

If you ever find yourself wanting a film that’s in the same vein as the brilliantly bananas 1977 film Hausu, then The Happiness of the Katakuris is for you!

Directed by Takashi Miike, the man behind Ichi the Killer and Audition amongst other similarly family-friendly titles, Happiness is no less dark than his other work despite its’ musical format. Featuring hotel guests perishing in increasingly gruesome and bizarre ways, Claymation sequences and of course, singing.

The music, in one part of the film, turns into some mad and nightmarish karaoke sing-a-long; creating a uniquely terrifying atmosphere that’s not dissimilar from having to sing karaoke at an office party in front of your disinterested work colleagues. Aka, disorientating and anxiety inducing.

Oh, and there’s an ongoing threat of an active volcano. This movie truly has to be seen to be believed.

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