House

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Call Number: DVD FLC-JPN House
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally produced as a Japanese motion picture in 1977.
Special features: Trailer (2 min.); Émotion [featurette] (40 min.); Constructing a "House" [featurette] (46 min.); "House" appraisal [featurette] (4 min.); booklet includes the essay "The Housemaidens" by Chuck Stephens.
Movie -- Summer plans -- Daddy's big surprise -- Box of memories -- Girls -- Letter to Auntie -- To the countryside -- Kiss of fire -- Satoyama village -- House -- Lonely no more -- Looking tasty -- Searching for Mac -- Not illusions -- Auntie's promise -- Mirror, mirror -- Witch cat -- Vanished -- "We're trapped!" -- Keys with teeth -- Unexplainable, unnatural -- Auntie's world -- Kung Fu to the rescue -- Eaten -- Forever -- "Time passes on" -- Color bars.
880-03 Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ōba, Ai Matsubara, Mieko Sato, Eriko Tanaka, Masayo Miyako, Kiyohiko Ozaki, Saho Sasazawa, Asei Kobayashi, Mitoshi Ishigami, Tomokazu Miura, Fumi Dan, Godiego, Haruko Wanibuchi, Yoko Minamida.
Tokyo teenager Gorgeous is upset with her long-widowed father--he wants to marry his new girlfriend Ryoko. Seriously miffed, Gorgeous hits the road to visit her aunt in the country, bringing along her best girlfriends Sweet, Melody, Fantasy, Prof, Mac, and Kung Fu. The titular house belongs to the wheelchair bound aunt, whose large white cat has been immortalized in artwork throughout. Things soon start to go very badly for the teenagers. While there are pinwheeling body parts, there are also bits of homage to avant-garde cinema, Looney Tunes cartoons, schlock Italian horror, chop-socky martial arts--all in a dreamlike, phantasmagoria of brightly colored Seventies-era kitsch. This is hardly to everyone's tastes, but it is old-school Japanese insanity of the very best kind.
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital mono.; full screen presentation, preserving the 1.33:1 aspect ratio of the original theatrical exhibition.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

What? Weird. submitted by pkooger on November 4, 2011, 1:01pm This is by far the weirdest movie I've seen in a long time. Probably some things were lost in translation, but I don't really see how a pair of disembodied legs karate kicking a painting of a cat, which then starts spewing blood out like a fire hydrant until the whole room is flooded (*whew*) translates well into any language. The soundtrack was also laughable. At times when it seemed the film was trying to build tension, it was playing cheerful tap-dancing music. And the backdrops! The cheesy, fake scenery backdrops were another fun highlight. The story has the barest outline of a coherent plot, but it is long gone as soon as the first musical number starts. Gorgeous, Kung Fu, Sweet, Melody, and the other girls may have been scared by the haunted house, but I was just bewildered.

Yup, it's weird all right. submitted by majean on July 21, 2018, 5:05pm The story behind this film is interesting. The film studio requested a movie that was like "Jaws," a popular film at the time, and they got... this. The director wasn't originally supposed to direct, only write, but he was given the opportunity when all of the studio directors turned the project down because they were afraid it would ruin their careers. The director/writer, unsure of how to write a horror movie, asked his ten year old daughter what she was afraid of, and thus "House" was born.

Um.... submitted by Pooh3238 on August 25, 2018, 11:28pm This movie was one of those weird movies where you arent sure whats going on and you keep watching it hoping that it becomes clear and it never does. It's about a house that wont let the people leave.

house submitted by qmomo on November 7, 2019, 6:06pm truly unique horror film with a well-deserved cult following. the basic plot is simple (it's about a house), its stength is in its wildly inventive visuals and phantasmagoric dreamlike atmosphere.

Fun submitted by smr on July 1, 2020, 8:46am Funny

My favorite director. submitted by sachico on June 16, 2021, 10:55am He is a genius director.