A gonzo horror flick that surely must have influenced Sam Raimi as he prepped The Evil Dead.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2024

Visually and viscerally stunning from start to finish, “House” is much more than a mere masterpiece.

| Original Score: FIVE STARS | Oct 31, 2023

Watch Nobuhiko Obayashi's psychedelic, funky, energetic gem which – to make sure I wasn't hallucinating – I watched three consecutive times to pick up on Japan's coming-of-age radical storytelling for a new generation in the post-war world...

| Mar 8, 2023

... a candy-colored style bomb of horror movie more jaw-droppingly unreal than scary, an experimental piece of pop-art genre filmmaking that is cartoonish in its graphic expressionism.

| Oct 29, 2022

Obligatory viewing for lovers of the kitsch, the cool and the crazy, but be warned -- don't watch it under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, or your head will explode.

| Sep 27, 2022

House’s spirit of “let’s pretend” goes too far. This isn’t just make-believe. This is out-and-out indifference.

| Sep 27, 2022

House is an exhausting, baffling trip into postmodern nonsense, but as an irreverent balancing out of the stately mastery of Ozu and Kurosawa, it is essential.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2022

House seems born out of restlessness and contempt for the status quo; it’s one of those movies that doubles as a piece of film criticism, intent on exposing and exploding all the tiresome clichés that commercial cinema constantly recycles.

| Sep 27, 2022

Too absurd to be genuinely terrifying, yet too nightmarish to be merely comic, "House" seems like it was beamed to Earth from another planet.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2022

It was well ahead of its time, or perhaps well behind it: A reissued print now making the rounds is a gloriously candy-coloured fever dream that has the ever-fresh quality of true eccentricity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2022

A silly, surreal cross of Japanese horror, anime and just plain weirdness, this 1977 fever dream of styles makes you wonder: How did this ever get made?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2022

Oddball comedy meets architectural horror in what is likely to be one of the most hilarious and memorable movie experiences you'll ever have.

| Oct 20, 2021

Pay a visit to House, and you'll never be the same.

| Sep 10, 2021

I remember being told that no adjectives or comparisons would be quite adequate to describe the experience of watching the cult Japanese film. ... it is truly impossible to use ordinary language to capture the transcendence of House.

| Jul 27, 2020

One minute it's bouncy and perky and full of gonzo airbrushed backdrops, and the next a girl is drowning in a river of blood while a man turns into bananas. You can't take your eyes off the screen or you'll miss something truly nuts and awe inspiring.

| Original Score: A | Jul 14, 2020

It is a true original of considerable historical importance. It's gory, silly, at times splendidly incoherent, and yet possessed of a fairy tale innocence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2018

Are we truly laughing with a film like House, or simply at it?. . .If you simply must know, get your tickets early, House is so bad it's good, and thus it is bound to sell out.

| Aug 22, 2017

[T]he archival cult find of the decade: a candy-colored style bomb of horror movie more jaw-droppingly unreal than scary, an experimental piece of pop-art genre filmmaking that is cartoonish in its graphic expressionism.

| May 22, 2016

An assault of expressionistic techniques...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 17, 2015

The best thing in this wild assemblage of collage and cartoon and fairy tale is that the girls, when they're eaten, scream with glee as their cut-out body parts spin around the frame. It's cannibalism as the ultimate kiddie ride.

| Feb 6, 2015