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House (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]
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January 25, 2010 "Please retry" | — | 1 |
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Genre | Horror |
Format | NTSC, Subtitled, Color, Multiple Formats |
Contributor | Kumiko Ohba, Yoko Minamida, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Kimiko Ikegami |
Language | Japanese |
Runtime | 1 hour and 28 minutes |
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Product Description
Product Description
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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Infamous Japanese whatsit House is the ultimate 1970s artifact. The animated opening recalls The Rocky Horror Picture Show, while former ad man Nobuhiko Obayashi extends the anything-goes impression through freeze frames, painted backdrops, and old-timey flashbacks. He starts by introducing schoolgirls Fantasy (Kumiko Ohba) and Gorgeous (Kimiko Ikegami) to groovy H.R. Pufnstuf-style music. Then Gorgeous's widowed father presents his new bride, Ryôko (Haruko Wanibuchi), who enters like Joan Crawford in a flowing white gown. Afterward, Gorgeous invites Fantasy, Melody, Kung Fu, Prof, Sweet, and Mac to her aunt's house for the summer. Little does she know that Ryôko plans to crash the party.
While they gather at the train station, the film slips into slapstick Monkees territory: a shoemaker croons as Fantasy's crush object, Mr. Tôgô (Kiyohiko Ozaki), trips over Gorgeous's green-eyed cat, Blanche. The girls make it to the country without incident, but the moment they arrive at the cobweb-covered estate, freaky things start happening: Auntie (Yôko Minamida) and Blanche, for instance, have met before. The ladies delight in the weirdness, enjoying a meal and exploring the grounds, but then Mac disappears. Auntie and Blanche, meanwhile, find novel ways to entertain themselves. Soon, mirrors are cracking, mattresses are flying, blood is flowing, and a piano goes berserk. There's only so much the girls can do, so they pin their hopes on Tôgô--and his sideburns--to set things right.
House arrives for the first time in the United States with a testimonial from House of the Devil director Ti West, who declares it "one of the most original films I've ever seen"; Emotion, an experimental short; and a featurette in which Obayashi credits his daughter, Chigumi, for several plot points. Fans of Carrie, Suspiria, The Evil Dead, and Pee-Wee's Playhouse: meet your new cinematic obsession. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Item model number : CRRN1930DVD
- Director : Nobuhiko Obayashi
- Media Format : NTSC, Subtitled, Color, Multiple Formats
- 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 : B003WKL6XA
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #39,552 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,251 in Horror (Movies & TV)
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When a film is hyped up to be 'all that', my expectations lead me to be only one thing - let down. When you read the Amazon product details as well as the dvd cover description, the promise sounds far too brilliant to be realized, so I decided to do a little research. After reading several website reviews, I felt I was getting farther from the truth instead of closer, so I decided to watch the bonus features before I sat through the actual movie. This is one of the few times when doing so proved to be absolutely essential to my overall viewing experience and ultimate enjoyment of this minor yet remarkable movie. There aren't many spoilers, at least none that would detract from your gratification, and to hear the way the film evolved directly from the mouth of director Nobuhiko Obayashi added the necessary seasonings to appreciate the film for what it is, what it isn't and what the hype tells us it should be. "An episode of 'Scooby-Doo' as directed by Mario Bava"? Puh-leese... I've seen every Bava flick there is and there's no such similarity - maybe Seijun Suzuki is who they meant. (By way of Tim Burton, but now I'm adding to the hype...).
By the time I actually sat through the film itself, I had a better understanding of what this film actually was, and could judge it on its own merits, budgetary and special effect restraints, constraints and sheer brilliance in execution and concept alone. As a result, I was able to thoroughly enjoy this anomaly in film from the 70's without reserve and would strongly suggest to anyone remotely interested in this film to do likewise - you won't be sorry you did.
(PS- The bonus 1966 experimental film is another added treat of sorts, and viewing it in advance will also increase your appreciation of the main feature).
A solid four star film I'm adding one star to for its sheer originality, and to make up for some of its unwarranted detractors here on Amazon. You want different? You got it!
1. There is a LOT of nudity in this movie, which I'm okay with except that it seems really out of place. Once you get to a certain part of the movie the girls just start being naked as they're getting killed by haunted furniture, and IMHO it takes away from the movie. It also means I can't watch it with my family or my girlfriend, which sucks because the rest of the movie is delightfully campy.
2. (SPOILER ALERT) The girls all die in this movie. Yeah, it's a horror movie so this comes as no surprise, but in most horror movies the people that get killed are rotten and deserve it, all except for one or two people that come out alive. In this movie all the characters were likable but none of them survived, so at the end my reaction was, "Aw, that's it? Everyone dies? That sucks!" It's just a minor complaint, though, it's not like it ruins the movie.
Overall, though, this movie is super campy and fun, and it really sticks with you. There's this plinky piano song that they play throughout the whole thing that gets more and more haunting as you go, and it was stuck in my head for days afterwards. It's not really scary at all, so if it weren't for all the nudity it'd be a great film to pull out on Halloween and watch with your teenage kids.
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This criterion BluRay is a really nice edition of the movie. It's beautifully rendered in HD and has very nice extras, including a really cool booklet with great pictures and information.
I highly recommend "House", whether you've seen it and want to add it to your collection or if you have never seen it but love bizarre, and sometimes comical horror films, then this one is for you too! I highly recommend it!
Reviewed in Germany on May 5, 2021
Japonesas hermosas, un gato diabólico, y cientos de momentos WTF, acompañado de una buena selección de extras, entre ellos un cortometraje, entrevistas, y un video de apreciación, sin faltar el trailer; hacen de esta edición una edición prácticamente definitiva, vale cada peso.