HOUSE (aka Hausu)
How to describe Nobuhiko Obayahshis 1977 movie House? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby Doo as directed by Dario Argento? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunts creaky country home, only to come face to face with evil spirits, bloodthirsty pianos, and a demonic housecat. Too absurd to be genuinely terrifying, yet too nightmarish to be merely comic, House seems like it was beamed to Earth from another planet. Or perhaps the mind of a child: the director fashioned the script after the eccentric musings of his eleven-year-old daughter, then employed all the tricks in his analog arsenal (mattes, animation, and collage) to make them a visually astonishing, raucous reality. Never before released in North America, and a bona fide cult classic in the making, House is one of the most exciting genre discoveries in years.
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HOUSE | 1977 | Japan | Not Rated | 88 mins | 35mm
Friday August 20th, 2010
12:00 AM midnight screening at the Broadway Theatre
715 Broadway Ave, Saskatoon, SK
$10 / advance tickets available at the Broadway Theatre box office and
at Unreal City
Click the poster to view the trailer.
