Kaneto Shindô's 'Onibaba' Finds Humanity in a Demon Hag

Of all the female archetypes in narrative fiction, few are as reviled or misunderstood as the crone. This woman "of a certain age" has accumulated an arsenal of invaluable wisdom, but due to her age and fading conventional beauty, finds herself ostracized by the larger world. Often isolated, we think of crones inhabiting dilapidated huts […] The post Kaneto Shindô's ‘Onibaba’ Finds Humanity in a Demon Hag appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.