TY - VIDEO ID - 143323318 TI - Hausu = : House AU - Ōbayashi, Nobuhiko AU - Yamada, Yorihiko AU - Katsura, Chiho AU - Ikegami, Kimiko AU - Jinbo, Miki AU - Ōba, Kumiko AU - Sakamoto, Yoshitaka AU - Satsuya, Kazuo AU - Ogawa, Nobuo AU - Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha AU - Janus Films AU - Criterion Collection (Firm) PY - 2023 SN - 9781604653175 1604653175 PB - [New York] Criterion Collection DB - UniCat KW - Haunted houses KW - Teenage girls UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143323318 AB - 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 mattes, animation, and collage effects. Equally 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. ER -