what is this - a horror movie? with a piano eating girl?
― dyao, Saturday, 6 February 2010 11:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, girl-eating piano.
the first 20 minutes are so are funny,geniusly idiotic and therefore awesome.the middle is kinda dragging on and repetetive but the ending, again, is great.
― Zeno, Saturday, 6 February 2010 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
film is seriously must-see
you could say it's a Japanese analog to Suspiria in that it's got the same second-by-second total freedom in the plot twists, the colors & backgrounds are surreal and gorgeous, pause any frame of the film and just try to figure out what you're seeing, and that even though it's not overtly pretentious, the details & non sequiturs & stylistic quirks do tip the scales towards art film as much as horror, but in the best and most entertaining way possible. I also liked it as much as I like Suspiria and that movie's one of my favorites (though Hausu is more about the c-c-cute than the slashing)
don't read the blog posts, all contain spoilers
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 09:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Just saw this. Am going to bed. Completely crackers. Music and camera shots seem to be run by an eccentric child who has a long catalogue of dreamy, inventive ideas on how to tell essentially a very simple story. Its not really an art movie though. I mean the plot hangs togethor well enough. There are plenty of funny asides- nod, winks, knowing looks and so on. Also the advertisement feeling of the whole thing is strange. lots of wind blowing through hair and violently, dramatic sunsets. I like how the whit knight turns into a bunch of bannanas. Good times.
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 12 February 2010 09:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Another thing. Do the girls really have to get half naked? What does this add?
I guess there are a lot of things in this film that you could ???? over.
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 12 February 2010 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
running @ IFC in NY for the last few weeks, trying to organize noisedude outing.
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 February 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
"Do the girls really have to get half naked? What does this add?"
more viewrs.
plus, for a movie as absurd as ridiculous as this, the question is irrelevant
― Zeno, Friday, 12 February 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Another thing. Do the girls really have to get half naked? What does this add?― Hinklepicker, Friday, February 12, 2010 2:55 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Hinklepicker, Friday, February 12, 2010 2:55 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
fuck is wrong w/ u
― daz dillinger escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 12 February 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I just felt weird getting a glimpse the naked chests of teenage girls. Thats all. Hey, if that's your thing, then go for it.
Of course you are right though in a film with as many jarring notes and strange perspectives a question such as this is irrelavant. It was a minor thing.
I still loved the film, honest.
― Hinklepicker, Saturday, 13 February 2010 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Here's my review
http://rabbitscgi.blogspot.com/2010/03/nobuhiko-obayashis-house.html
Amazing movie, its on d3m1n01d if you do that sort of thing, and probably elsewhere too. I kind think the first half of this movie (background story, train ride) is even better and stranger than the second half (in the house). I very badly want this on DVD and want to see this movie by him as well. "The School in the Crosshairs":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY6PP24_bC4
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 8 March 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
It's playing at the Castro in SF pretty soon, fyi
― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Friday, 12 March 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Me and my friend got in a hueg argument because i dragged him to see this in the theater on the last day of ATP. He felt duped because I described it as a "horror movie" which he claims it isn't.
― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 2 April 2012 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
It's totally a horror movie! It just happens to be a lot of other things as well, but it's horror at the core no question.
― light dipping assholes (jjjusten), Monday, 2 April 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
there was an interview with the director in fangoria, if that's any kind of horror litmus test.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 2 April 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno, i've gotten in like screaming matches with people who think the sole purpose of horror movies is to be scary
― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 2 April 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
which reminds me of that dipshitty convo that derogatis had with schrieber about The Shining vs Saw IV (re: oddfuture, ROFLMAO) as if these two movies share the same goal
― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 2 April 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
2001: Sci-Fi::Hausu:Horror
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 2 April 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
Hausu is much more Scream than Scary Movie; I can see being let down if yr expecting to be scared shitless but I mean if you are let down in any way by this film then you lose at movies.
― Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
^otm
my friend fell asleep last time i put it on & i was smgdh so vigorously
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
in your friend's defense, it's a trance-inducing movie.i do think you'd be scared shitless if you fell asleep with this on, though!
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
also this is one of my favoritest possessions:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/shop_product_images/490/HAUSU_CTA1091.A_3_w285.jpg?1328128355
― Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
anyone seen other Obayashi features, like say the two showing here tomorrow?
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1337
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 December 2012 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
no, but i am very envious that you have the chance
― tiniest homeless (jjjusten), Saturday, 15 December 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
he was here with some short films from the early '60s a few nights ago, couldn't go
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 December 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
I saw "School in the Crosshairs" and it was really pretty great. I don't think anything could ever been OTT as "Hausu" though.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 15 December 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
I'm praying that is the case.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 December 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.tiktok.com/@captureash/video/6896985661610495237
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 March 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link
If you can find it, I highly recommend Obayashi's HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (1986), which feels like just the sort of thing I needed to see right now. Not as wild as HOUSE but makes heavy use of experimental editing and alternating color and black & white (sometimes within the same shot). A fun and youthful movie that manages to be sentimental, sexy, goofy, and experimental.
― Chris L, Monday, 16 August 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
i'd like to see that. HOUSE was so fucking good. i saw it once, in my backyard, projected onto siding so there were horizontal lines everywhere.
where can one find HIS MOTORBIKE?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 August 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
Has anyone seen Labyrinth of Cinema?
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 August 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link
I'm sure there was some discussion on another thread of a collection of his getting a release, but now I can't find it and Im not sure if His Motorbike was one of them.
― emil.y, Monday, 16 August 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
xxpost Not sure what the ILX etiquette is in 2021 for discussing certain trackers.
― Chris L, Monday, 16 August 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link
Tempting: https://waxworkrecords.com/collections/all/products/hausu?&utm_campaign=campaign%3A+HAUSU+On+Sale+Now%21+%286352a4d97d08b8001c44f6d8%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=omnisend&omnisendContactID=5d00597d60eca9ce27209287
― Eric H., Friday, 21 October 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
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― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Friday, 21 October 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link