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

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

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

There's never a dull moment, though I certainly felt dulled by the time it was over.

| Feb 6, 2015

Movies as original as this one don't come along very often, so grab it while you can.

| Feb 6, 2015

For connoisseurs of the bizarre, House's revival is long overdue.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 6, 2015

Gigglers and cultists, pony up.

| Oct 17, 2011

It's about equal parts brilliant, baffling, ridiculous, and unwatchable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2010

That House was made at all is a minor miracle. That it has returned, to critical acclaim and a new generation of fans, is a major miracle. Truly, this is some kind of wonderful.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 21, 2010

While there's a dweeby midnight-movie inventiveness about the look of all this, there's also an awful lot to forgive artistically (or to drunkenly roll with, as the case may be).

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 29, 2010

Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone -- no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to House.

| Jan 15, 2010