10 Horror Musicals You Need To See

You can always count on Takashi Miike to break with convention but even by the standards of the director of Audition and Ichi The Killer, The Happiness Of The Katakuris reaches a whole new level of weird.

Part black comedy, part cheesy drama, part horror movie and part musical, the plot involves a family who open up an inn on a former garbage dump in the shadow of Mount Fuji. When their first guest, a TV personality, commits suicide during the night, they decide to bury the body and cover up the death, knowing the bad publicity will spell the end of their business.

When each subsequent guest also expires on the premises – by accident, murder or suicide – they also end up being buried nearby….but not before the family breaks into song. Could all this be leading towards a big song along with dancing zombies? It just might.

The Happiness Of The Katakuris is the movie that proved to Y2K filmmakers that it was okay to be weird and experimental and that you didn’t need to take yourself too seriously. Lloyd Kaufman credits it with inspiring Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead, but more on that later.