I finally watched Hausu (House) by director Nobuhiko Obayashi last night. I’ve been told I would love it, but dear god, I did not expect to love it as much as I did. It’s utterly bizarre, but not due to a lack of vision— in fact I would say that the vision was crystal clear here, and executed with perfect accuracy. It’s just that the crystal clear vision itself is what’s so bizarre. In the most delicious way, of course.
I don’t know that I could write a half decent review of it after a single watch. That being said, the whole 88 minute run was pure eye candy. I pulled some of my favorite stills from movie-screencaps.com, which by the way is about to become my new favorite website. I’ve said before that I’d love to see a book or something in which there’s no text, and every spread is a grid of stills taken a second or so apart from a single film, in sequential order, beginning to end. This website is essentially that but in a scrollable form.
Enjoy the sampling. If you’ve got 90 minutes and want to have the time of your life, put on House. It’s not scary and it is delightful.
Shoutout House and shoutout Kung-Fu