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Hausu
House
Japan 1977
produced by
Tomoyuki Tanaka, Yorihiko Yamada, Nobuhiko Obayashi for PSC/Toho
directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
starring Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Oba, Ai Matsubara, Mieko Sato, Eriko Tanaka, Masayo Miyako, Kiyohiko Ozaki, Saho Sasazawa, Asei Kobayashi, Mitsutoshi Ishigami, Ippei Hara, Tetsuo Kanai, Shoichi Hirose, Yasumasa Onishi, Midori Naito, Kiyoko Tsuji, Tomokazu Miura, Fumi Dan, Haruko Wanibuchi, Yoko Minamida, Mickie Yoshino, Yukihide Takekawa, Takami Asano, Steve Fox, Ryoji Asano, Kazuo Satsuya, Chigumi Obayashi, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Kyoko Obayashi, Chiho Katsura
story by Chigumi Obayashi, screenplay by Chiho Katsura, music by Asei Kobayashi, Mickie Yoshino, special effects by Nobuhiko Obayashi
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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To not have to spend her holidays with her father (Saho Sasazawa) and his
new fiancée (Haruko Wanibuchi). Young Oshare (Kimiko Ikegami) rather
shamelessly invites herself and her six best briends - Kung Fu (Miki
Jinbo), Fanta (Kumiko Oba], Gari (Ai Matsubara), Mac (Mieko Sato), Melody
(Eriko Tanaka) and Sweet (Masayo Miyako) - to her Auntie's (Yoko Minamida)
mansion in the country, even though she hasn't seen Auntie in ten years.
However, Auntie's happy for the company, as she's wheelchai-bound and
rarely has any visitors. Actually, these days the only thing that keeps
her alive is waiting for her fiancé (Tomokazu Miura), who has most
probably died in the war though. Now at first, her mansion appears to be a
dream home, with the girls hardly noticing that one of their ranks,
Mac has gone missing, and when Fanta later stumbles over her severed head,
the others attribute it to her vivid imagination. When Fanta later also
finds Sweet eaten up by her bed, and they find all her clothes but not the
girl, they start to figure something's not totally right. And then Melody
gets eaten up by the piano, and Oshare seems to be possessed, and that's
when they realize something's dead wrong. And Auntie? She gets better and
better the more girls are dead and soon is able to ditch her wheelchair -
because you know, she has died years ago, but her spirit feeds on the
blood of young girls to stay alive to await her lover as promised ...
Sure, this film's plot is horror, its approach is comical and its scares
oftentimes surreal, but surreal horror comedy seems rather too narrow a
description for this film, it's just that weird. There are elements of
teen comedy in here, of melodrama (only heightened by the over-perfect and
super-artificial sets), there's even a couple of musical numbers. It's
really just a wild, no-holds-barred mix based on a anything-goes story -
and whether you're able to enjoy this probably depends on your sense of
humour and ability to suspend your disbelief - and if both are strong, you
are sure to have a heck of a time with this one.
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