House (Hausu)

This is a Japanese film that someone recommended to me because it’s REALLY messed up. And it is. School girl’s dad brings home a new mom 8 years after the mother’s death. The dad intends to bring the new GF on vacation with them and the girl freaks out and writes a letter to her aunt about the whole thing. There are these weird tunnel shots that really don’t emphasize anything, so they just confuse me – almost as much as the random garishly-painted backdrops that change from time to time. One by one, the girls begin disappearing while the creepy aunt acts creepy. One girl does use one of my favorite lines “That’s crazy talk!” Awesome. And now a piano just bit a girl’s hands off and then ate her. Now a girl is kung fu fighting a telephone and just got her head eaten by a chandelier. This film has some hilarious special effects happening too. Wow, this is a really weird movie. I don’t think I’d recommend this one, but it’s weird enough that maybe…