Woodyanders Sumptuous Japanese schoolgirl Gorgeous (stunning slender brunette Kimiko Ikegami) and her six best female friends travel to the countryside to spend summer vacation at a creaky rundown house owned by her ailing estranged aunt (a splendidly sinister portrayal by Yoko Minamida). The girls soon discover that said abode is overrun by evil demonic spirits that are intent on eating them.Director Nobuhiko Obayashi, working from a blithely berserk script by Chiho Katsura, brings a dazzling and wildly imaginative cinematic style and tremendously galvanizing go-for-it panache to the outrageous premise, maintains a breathless brisk pace throughout, pays affectionate homage to everything from cartoons to silent films, and tops everything off with a wickedly funny sense of kooky humor thanks to such jaw-dropping hysterical sights as a floating decapitated head biting a gal's butt, a lethal carnivorous piano, a bleeding clock, and a cat painting vomiting forth gallons of the red stuff. The terrifically tacky (not so) special effects, gaudy painted backdrops, obvious miniatures, goofy gore, and fake fruit punch blood all add immensely to this movie's considerable loopy pop-arty appeal. Moreover, the gals are all quite charming and fetching, with Miko Jinbo as the tough take-charge Kung-Fu, Ai Matsubara as the nerdy Prof, and Mieko Sato as the gluttonous Mac rating as the definite stand-outs. Yoshitaka Sakamoto's vibrant color cinematography provides a bright and splashy look. A totally bonkers blast.

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.

fagdamager I've seen it twice. It's a wonderfully crafted mishmash of thousands of cinematic tropes, ideas, and feelings packaged into 88 minutes of film. Yes, it is a movie with a plot, but like 2001, it's about the journey of interpretation and emotion that drives the film rather than resolving anything. It's goofy, horrifying, tense, lighthearted, crazy, but always perfect. I know the metaphor of a "roller-coaster ride" means almost nothing now-a-days, but it's the most apt comparison. It's like being shot into a haunted house on the moon in a different dimension. You will NOT see a single thing coming. I promise you. It's like watching a hour and a half trailer for a horror movie while you're on acid. None of this is hyperbole, but merely an attempt to accurately portray the film with a few words. Stop reading this review, get the highest quality copy of this film out there and watch it because there's nothing else to say.Except maybe Kung Fu is best girl, but that's just like, my opinion man.

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.