HouseI can’t quite remember the words of the friend who introduced me to House used to describe the film, but I do remember being told that no adjectives or comparisons would be quite adequate to describe the experience of watching the cult Japanese film. After watching it, that description holds up: it is truly impossible to use ordinary language to capture the transcendence of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 1977 horror-comedy House (or Hausu), a fever-dream fairy tale.The tale begins when seven young women, all with nicknames that reveal their archetypal personalities (Gorgeous, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet) travel to spend the summer at Gorgeous’ aunt’s house. Chaos, unsurprisingly, ensues. The character names create an allegorical feel to the film, and House can be viewed as a story about telling stories. It sends up all of our expectations of what a horror story looks like and what it means, parodying and satirizing many tropes of the horror genre as schoolgirl fantasies morph into something both sinister and perversely comedic. The Hallucinogenic Haunting of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s ‘House’ via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2RZCkfK
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