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House

Criterion Collection

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

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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.

Special features

New, restored high-definition digital transfer

Constructing a House, a new video piece with director Nobuhiko Obayashi

Emotion, a 1966 experimental film by Obayashi

New video appreciation by director Ti West (House of the Devil)

Theatrical trailer

New and improved English subtitle translation

PLUS: An essay by Chuck Stephens

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Actors: Kimiko Ikegami, Kumiko Ohba, Yoko Minamida
Directors: Nobuhiko Obayashi
Format: Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Color, Subtitled, NTSC
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated:
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Not Rated
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: October 26, 2010
Run Time: 88 minutes
Average Customer Review: 151 customer reviews
ASIN: B003WKL6X0
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,891 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #172 in Movies & TV > Blu-ray > Fantasy
- #215 in Movies & TV > Blu-ray > Foreign Films
- #458 in Movies & TV > Blu-ray > Anime

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Joshua Leitzel

HOOOUUUUSSSEEE

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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Michael A. Mccullough

Lots of weird fun

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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ZenDodge69

One of those movies that most will either love or hate

September 21, 2016

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Campy, surreal, silly, abstract, these words and their synonyms are what best describes this movie. You have probably never seen a movie like this, if you have it is probably not as well done. It is a low budget film, but the cheap special effects(compared to the present) are well done and contribute to the overall feeling of the movie. The characters have nicknames that have to do with their interests, and personalities to go with those interests. Not really a horror movie or gorefest, it turns those tropes on their heads. It is quite enjoyable and quite different. If you don't like the so-called 'art' films or anything different you won't like this film. If you are looking for something so different that it is indescribable this is a movie for you. I really loved this movie, and I was not prepared for the unusualness of it. This is one of those movies that most will either love or hate, but either way it is worth a watch. I would like to add that this movie is in a genre all by itself, and the the soundtrack has some great music.

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January 19, 2016

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There are no words for this movie to properly describe it. None in my vocabulary anyway.

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Sophia Pertillo

It became an instant favorite and I had to buy so I could share ...

April 11, 2018

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I've never been more along for the ride during a movie as the first time I watched House. It became an instant favorite and I had to buy so I could share with friends. Such a weird, fun movie.

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hector j.

it is everything you would like it to be

December 5, 2015

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Ok, fare warning, this is not your common japanese horror cliche movie, where the ghost is white, and in that lies the charm of this movie, it is everything you would like it to be, buth in a way that shows you why its overly done in so many other films that have since come out, the director knew what he was doing, an for what purpose, see it with someone so you have someone to look at when a scene makes no sense and you can ask ¨ what was that?¨ , this movie was done in a way that you can't stop thinking you've seen this before, but keep in mine when this film was made, I only recomend this movie to people who can open up to the bizarre and strange, yet I wish more people would see it for what it could, a classic.

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December 19, 2017

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Potential viewers might be well served to read about the history of the project and what the director had in mind before getting into this movie. They might appreciate it more.

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January 9, 2018

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DFFCSRERRRWCGBB!!!!!!!!!! Laugh!!!

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Joe Ivan Lucio

No problems here.

Product arrived on time and as shown on picture. No concerns. Disc and inside of movie was intact and authentic.

Published 15 days ago

Aric A. Dilbeck

Wacky abstract horror thing.

The best descriptor I can come up with for this film is its a Surrealistic Horror Comedy. The plot is pretty basic and has been done 1000 times before and after in horror films to...Read more

Published 17 days ago

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Five Stars

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sweets4mimi

Five Stars

This is the weirdest movie but very entertaining

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Ken

A surreal Masterpiece!!

Totally amazing trippy masterpiece!!
Buy it now!!

Published 2 months ago

Eva

WEIRD

WHAT EVEN IS THIS MOVIE?! 100/10, DROP EVERYTHING AND WATCH THIS.

Published 2 months ago

apeman505

Great, campy fun!

This is a VERY weird movie, and I love weird movies. However, there were two things I didn't like, although they are just a matter of opinion:

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Published 3 months ago

Michael K.

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10/10

Published 3 months ago

Katherine Super

I got so drunk i died and made bad decisions

Lol dis dah weirdest movie ever but if you're lookin for a good time you gotta watch it

Published 4 months ago

Maximilian Seitz

Fragmented Piece of Eye Candy for Cinephiles

Hausu is a movie that defies classification, lacking both a serious plot and capable actors. The director Obayashi presents his horror persiflage in an avantgarde and experimental...Read more

Published 4 months ago

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