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House (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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Kimiko Ikegami (Actor), Kumiko Ohba (Actor), Nobuhiko Obayashi (Director) Rated:

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House (The Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home and comes face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions, all realized by Obayashi via mattes, animation, and collage effects. Equally absurd and nightmarish, House might have been beamed to Earth from some other planet.

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How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream of consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home and comes face to face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions, all realized by Obayashi via a series of mattes, animation, and collage effects. Equal parts absurd and nightmarish, HOUSE might have been beamed to Earth from some other planet. Never before available on home video in the United States, it’s one of the most exciting cult discoveries in years.

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Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
MPAA rating : s_medNotRated NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions : 6.75 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches; 4 Ounces
Item model number : Relay time: 89min
Director : Nobuhiko Obayashi
Media Format : Blu-ray, Color, Subtitled, NTSC
Run time : 1 hour and 28 minutes
Release date : October 26, 2010
Actors : Kimiko Ikegami, Kumiko Ohba, Yoko Minamida
Subtitles: : English
Studio : Criterion Collection
ASIN : B003WKL6X0
Number of discs : 1

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Joshua Leitzel

HOOOUUUUSSSEEE

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2017

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One of the most fascinating Japanese films I've seen. You've definitely never seen anything like it before, nor will you after. The techniques used to create the visual effects are also fascinating. The painted backdrops in particular are quite beautiful actually. Overall the film is pretty ridiculous and out-there, in its directing style and plot, but that's part of its immense charm. Also, the soundtrack is freaking awesome (nothing like what you'd expect from a traditional "horror" film though).

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Mister K

Strange style, little substance

Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2018

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I'm not one to knock an experimental film no matter how odd--provided it's executed with some level of finesse. Mixing cartoons with bizarre action scenes--some of which left me wondering what the hell happened--House is like a bizarre mix of gaudy visuals and horror, as if a first-year-film-school student were trying to riff Bava and Argento but produced results closer to Ed Wood.

There are the chatty female characters--and I give the actors credit; they did their best. But the story itself and the delivery--I have no idea what the filmmakers were going for. What they delivered was a gaudy film that's not funny enough to be a black comedy and not horrifying enough to be a horror film. The mood isn't aided by the disharmony between content and soundtrack. We're witnessing things that ought to be horrifying. Presumably. And in the background plays music that's too happy and upbeat. And I will so only this about the twist ending: that it was never set up within the movie, and that I was so bored by this point that it had zero effect.

I wouldn't recommend this mess to anyone--not even avid fans of art horror. Spare yourself a few hours; there are literally thousands of better horror films.

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Levi Dannyel

It's interesting and comical

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2019

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This was a recommended film for me, and so I gave it a go. It was very unique and truly a piece I'll never forget. I watched this with one of my friends and the story is what grasped me. I suppose I'm one for quite a story telling, because my friend was confused watching it although she did enjoy the whacky elements or bits that seemed far too out of there that made it for us comical. I actually had the entire movie figured out before the final moments whereas my friend was left confused had I not expressed my intake of it.

The film isn't a straight forward tale, and due to the elements that many will find unnecessary or simply overwhelming, I can see a lack in understanding or a detachment from the story. However, if you look beyond that and grab the bread crumbs that are left throughout, it tells quite the story that's scary despite the presentation of it.

I enjoyed the film and I certainly won't forget it either. It's definitely one of those films that can easily be hit or miss. It's also in subtitles, and I know many that don't enjoy those. So that's your warning if you're one of those watchers.

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Richard Weems

Yes, it works

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2019

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Before I even look after writing this review and the no-doubt numerous other reviews that are going to cast a heavy dose of shade all over this curio of Japanese psychedelic horror, that no matter where overall opinions fall, this movie cannot be faulted for a lack of persistence. Say what you will about the depiction of school girls as giggly (mostly) helpless creatures referred to as nothing but their rather judgmental nicknames, the body shaming, the boy chasing—this movie persists with presenting goofy, at times incomprehensible, other times astoundingly creative, visuals and other effects that make sure no moment goes unattended. Seven schoolgirls go on a field trip with their blazingly incompetent chaperone to Gorgeous’s aunt’s house, only to find it chock full of mystery and scary sights. They make all the mistakes reserved for the victims of a horror movie, but there is something brash about its formulaic plot movement. Maybe it’s the brazen dancing before obviously painted landscape flats, the discussion midway about whether they were in a Kung fu movie or not, but this movie is overall so strange and otherworldly that I simply bought in and took the ride.

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Chris D.

It is ok... crazy... but crazy like a cartoon mostly

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2018

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It was ok. Worth seeing I guess... the ending you can watch on youtube and it was probably the best part... sort of inspiring... but just seemed too poorly lit at times... some fun effects, some interesting uses of cuts and edits,... maybe it was more inspiring back in the day... but for today's standards... I recommend "Tetsuo - Iron Man" over this much more.

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Michael A. Mccullough

Lots of weird fun

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2011

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House moves seamlessly from John Hughes-style teen comedy, to Sam Raimi-style horror come Theater of the Absurd. The film, originally released in 1977, but never in the US, is hard to define. The horror is too graphic for the film to be a comedy, yet too knowingly asinine to truly be horror. Because of it's uneven mixture of Easy Rider acid trip sequences and over-the-top humor House becomes more and more incomprehensible as it moves forward (which may be the precise recipe for a cult classic). Gorgeous and friends (all named with an odd seven dwarfs bent) retreat to her aunt's home for the summer. They make their arrival at the house with The John Hughes Cheese Factor off the charts. But it doesn't take long after their arrival for things to turn for the worse, as one disappears during dinner. Moments later her head is found inside of a well, just before it flies high in the air and swoops down, laughing, to bite her friend in the butt. Obayashi utilizes every effect and tool he can think of to make this as psychedelic as possible, further distancing this film from easy classification. If the trick was available in '77, he's trying it here. From there the film unravels into a non-sensical plot. The film is hilarious in ways that most films would never try to be. It's morbid, yes, but it's also slapstick. It is whatever kind of humor uses a jaunty tune to soundtrack a piano eating a girl and flinging her limbs in the air when it slams the lid shut. House unravels, yes, but it's satisfying. And maybe making sense, here, is unwarranted. Ultimately, the film just doesn't need to resolve, because it accomplishes its goals without tying up the loose ends.

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curryspecial

幼少期のトラウマ映画になった理由

Reviewed in Japan on June 11, 2020

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このレビューを書こうと迷っていたら、偶然つけていたラジオからこの映画HOUSEの北米版の話題が出て、鳥肌がたった。書かねば。。

この映画の出会いは半ズボンが似合う、昭和の子供のころ、リアルタイムから遅れること10年。当時は土曜の昼間、半ドンの学校から帰ってきたくらいに、映画の再放送をしていた。

本作はそんな一つだった。
数々のレビューで書かれているので、詳細ははぶくが、昭和の精一杯のパニホラ映画、おばちゃまの目玉食い、生首、サブリミナルな言霊、ゴダイゴの不気味で元気な音楽、成田賢の歌も濃い味わいで。
昭和の昼下がり、家に一つしかないテレビで一人で見るのは、昼間でも十分怖かった。
ヌードすらもありがたみが怖さに負けてるくらい、怖かった。

あれから30数年。
今見ると、パロディやギャグも理解できたり、インフェルノな手作り特撮に肝心したり、、ある程度冷静に俯瞰で見れるようになった、が。。

もう内容も充分理解しているにも関わらず、今、自分の家には、DVDとサントラ、それに北米版のブルーレイもある。

なぜにそんなにはまっているのかw

この作品は、いわゆるオタク向けの元祖だと思う。
7人のアイドル、特撮、ちょっとやそっとわからないパロディや仕掛け、メイド服、ついついマニアが思わず調べたくなるようなアイテムがぎっしり詰まっている。
HOUSE=おたく、からもお分かりいただけるだろう。

今となっては子供の頃に怖かったのは、その内容よりも、きっとぎっしり詰まった情報量の多さ、これからもハマり続けるだろう将来（今の自分だ）、それらに圧倒されたのだと思う。

実際にこの映画のことを考えたり調べたり何度も見直したり、、
今までどれだけ時間を費やしてしまったか。。
調べないと気が済まない何か。ガリのように家の正体が分かったところで、結局は食われてしまう。自分もハウスに食われてしまったわけだ、今も！

一度ハマると人生をダメにさせるほどの映画
あなたもこの映画に、嫁いでみませんか？

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Happy Masked Guy

Mad House!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 15, 2020

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House has been on my watch list for a long time, but what little I’d seen in trailers never pushed me over the edge into purchasing. With Christmas came an opportunity to gift the film to my brother, a dastardly indirect means of accessing it myself.

Let me start by saying this: I’m not quite sure I have laughed so much at a film both for the right reasons and the wrong ones, simultaneously.

House is best described as Scooby Doo meets Suspiria—in Japan. It’s part grim fairytale, part children’s TV, part horror spectacle. Everything is designed to appear ludicrous, from the flower-power hippy soundtrack to the 70’s era, acid-trip advertisement style editing. Colour abounds, and the sickly sweet journey of the protagonist to her lonely, beautiful aunt constantly surprises the viewer with vistas both real and painted. The film doesn’t seek to conceal this however— more often than not it’s very clear that what you see is absurd, but frequently lovely, illusion.

From the moment Beauty and her plucky stock character school-friends arrive at the titular ‘House’, we quickly nosedive into potent surrealism: Cupboards are karate kicked; rats fly through the air; a cat magically winks and spears a lizard. In one of the best scenes, the aunt waltzes into the fridge, closing herself inside. It’s almost too much to process. There’s a balletic quality to the preposterousness that never fails to enthral.

Fundamentally however, underneath all of the absurdity lies a surprisingly magical experience. There’s more under the surface than it might appear, and House manages to capture something of a Miyazaki-esque nostalgia, a relentlessly cheerful, untroubled depiction of childhood friendship and adventures abroad.

I won’t divulge much more about the film, because it really must be witnessed, and felt, to be believed.

Highly recommended, especially for fans of anime and Japanese cinema.

4 people found this helpful

JT24

Phantasmagoric, surreal & fun til the end.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 1, 2018

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For fans of lowbrow or surrealist art or anyone who likes films that don’t take themselves seriously.

Hausu is a cult classic. And that’s great but it needs to be bigger. We should have an annual viewing tradition on Halloween night. Considering this was supposed to be Japans answer to “Jaws” we get one of the greatest and original horror films of ALL time. This might not be as adored as “Jaws” and that’s understandable. But we do get a special movie. A popcorn movie. Are there deeper themes in the film, scathing social commentary? Honestly it doesn’t matter. Hausu is a feast for the eyes and ears. A multicoloured rainbow of cats, blood, kung-fu, skeletons, floating heads and of course demonic bed matresses
The plot is perfectly simple too. An accessible plot is a step towards world domination for Hausu. A group of teenage friends travel to an old house to visit one of the girls aunties. They arrive at the house then chaos ensues. What seperates Hausu from other haunted house films is it’s incredible set design, use of colour and embracing of low quality D.I.Y. effects.

The painted sets in Hausu (one set being used in a hilarious meta joke in one scene) are beautiful. From the hills to the sunset clouds, each set is crafted expertly only heightening the dream like quality of the film.

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nutty

Unusual

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2019

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First it was made in 1977 in japan (asian horrors are different than western films) a young girl visits her aunt with her friends after her father plans to re marry ,it comical in places ,baffling to watch , as far as l cud work out the aunt is pining for a lost love etc eating young girls to keep alive . You either like this /hate it ,me l just baffled. Its got good subtitles .

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Disappointed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 5, 2020

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After waiting over a month for next day delivery, it being delivered wrongly and having to be returned to the sender on 5 different occasions, I finally received it, package was badly damaged and when I opened it there were bits of the case missing, broken into pieces, it won’t close properly, the disc was rattling around inside not being in it’s case properly, I don’t expect this having bought it brand new, very disappointed, I don’t usually complain about the quality of the packaging, even if the dvd doesn’t work or skips having bought it second hand, it’s the risk you take. But having bought this ‘new’ and primes next day delivery? Disappointed.