Woman In the Dunes (1964)

WOMAN IN THE DUNES  (1964)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Hiroshi Teshigahara
    Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida 
An entomologist spends a happy day looking for bugs near a small seaside village and misses the last bus home. He takes shelter with a woman living in a house in a sand dune, and everything goes bad from there. A creepy, unconventional horror movie that plays like a long nightmare from which there is no escape. What the allegorical implications might be is up for grabs, and has been since the movie's release. If nothing else, after watching it, you're not likely to look at sand the same way ever again. Teshigahara's direction got an Oscar nomination.