House

1977 "In the heart of a violet forest, an old house awaits young girls."
7.3| 1h28m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 01 September 1977 Released
Producted By: Toho Eizo Co.
Country: Japan
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.janusfilms.com/house
Synopsis

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

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Kimiko Ikegami as Gorgeous / Gorgeous' Mother
Miki Jinbo as Kung Fu
Kumiko Ohba as Fantasy

Reviews

lamtruongtho The first time in cinema movie history including the horror movie there is the movie made by different from any movies else that I have never watched. Hausu is where the simple things that could make you go into the craziest things that you have never seen in real life or anything else in your imagination or your dream. Although in this movie there are a lot of goofs but these is just make me laugh and make me insane when these girls go in the HOUSE and the soundtrack is awesome and crazy like the movie. All I consider about the greatest horror masterpiece in Japan
fathersonholyspirit50 Well, I finally watched house. I felt lucky to find it at vintage stock. It is crazy. I loved the blood effects though. I never got sick of hearing the main theme play through the ENTIRE movie lol. If yoy like surreal horror this is a good watch. There is plenty of groovy 70s tunes featured as well.
classicsoncall The one thing I will grant the picture is that it's a unique and strange visual experience. It starts out interestingly enough in a creatively stylized manner, but then gets too clever by half, much too gimmicky, and ultimately incoherent as the story progresses. Well, maybe not incoherent entirely, because you can follow the story well enough, as a group of Japanese teenage girls falls victim to a demonic house in the countryside of Satoyama Village.In checking the credits page, it appears that the version I caught on Turner Classics changed the name of all the principal characters, so that the main character named 'Angel' on the IMDb title page became 'Gorgeous' in the film I saw. In no particular order, the remaining six girls went by the names of Fantasy, Sweet, Mac, Kung-Fu, Prof and Melody. Their English names in general referenced a character trait, so that 'Melody' was accomplished as a musician, and 'Kung-Fu' was a martial artist. Even the cat's name was changed, another reviewer called it 'Snowflake', while in the story I watched it had the very non-Japanese name of 'Blanche' - how they came up with that one I'll never know.Although it seems that the director's take on this movie was to produce something resembling horror, there's just too much goofy stuff occurring that takes the horror element right out of it. I'll refer to just two of the deaths in the story - one by a piano eating Melody (how appropriate!), the other involving Kung-Fu getting chomped by a ceiling light. After a while, one's interest in the story wanes because it's all just a bit too bizarre.As for the main protagonist, Angel/Gorgeous winds up being 'consumed' by the Auntie the girls originally intended to visit. Gorgeous was upset that her widowed father was going to remarry after eight years, so a change in vacation plans brought Gorgeous and her friends to Auntie's home in the country. In an effort to make friends with Gorgeous, the fiancé Ryoko Ema set out for Auntie's home, and upon arriving, the picture somehow totally disconnects from the comic/horror element, dissolving to a message about how the 'spirit of love can live forever'. Maybe it all had to do with the translation, but whatever it was, any message the director was attempting to convey was simply lost on this viewer. And I don't get lost too easily.
jacobjohntaylor1 This is a horror movie that is not scary. So what is the point. I do not know. The story line in this movie is awful. The acting is awful. The ending is awful. There is no reason for people to like this movie. It is pooh pooh. 7.3 is overrating it. I give it 1 out 10. Because it is pooh pooh. The actors have no talent. The writers have no talent. Do not see this pooh pooh movie. I need more lines and I am running out of things to say. Crappy movie crappy movie crappy movie. One of the worst horror movies of all time. It smells like pooh pooh. Because that is what it is. Do not see it. Stay way from this movie. I herd it was a comedy. But it is not funny. It is just a stinky.