HOUSE (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1977
• Genre: Comedy; Fantasy; Horror
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Kimiko Ikegami; Miki Jinbo; Kumiko Ôba; Ai Matsubara; Mieko Satô; Eriko Tanaka; Masayo Miyako; Kiyohiko Ozaki; Saho Sasazawa; Asei Kobayashi; Mitsutoshi Ishigami; Yasuo Ônishi; Tomokazu Miura; Fumi Dan; Haruko Wanibuchi; Yôko Minamida; Nobuhiko Ôbayashi; Chiho Katsura; Chigumi Ôbayashi; Yorihiko Yamada; Yoshitaka Sakamoto; Nobuo Ogawa; Mikkî Yoshino; Shohei Hayashi; Kazuo Satsuya
• Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
• Runtime: 1:28
• Company: Toho Company Limited, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie