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Description acceptable. In a 1972 stop-motion animated short one of these beings attacks a pair of brothers in a forest, where they sever its arm only to later discover that it was their mother, who has become one of these beings. A 1975 experimental short film by the director of Funeral Parade of Roses assembled a series of still shots frame-by-frame to resemble zooms and pans around a figure dressed like one of these beings. A third film ends with a woman jumping over a pit as she chases another while proclaiming that she is not one of these beings. In that film, a mother tries to prevent her daughter from (*) sneaking out at night to see their neighbor by dressing up like one of these beings with an item she had stolen from a man she had earlier lured to his death in a field of reeds. For 10 points, a cursed Hannya mask is worn in order to appear as what general type of malevolent supernatural being in the 1964 Kaneto Shindō film Onibaba? ■END■
ANSWER: demon [Accept Oni or Onibaba until read; accept yōkai or spirit; accept onryō or ghost] (The first film is The Demon by Kihachiro Kawamoto; the second is Ātman by Toshio Matsumoto. Hannya masks are generally agreed to represent demons, but it is possible they can also represent onryō.)
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