Part of Weekend Classics: Animal Kingdom
Sun, Aug 4 at 5:10pm: Introduction from HOUSE poster designer Sam Smith | BUY TICKETS
How to describe Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s 1977 movie HOUSE? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby Doo as directed by Dario Argento? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home, only to come face to face with evil spirits, bloodthirsty pianos and a demonic housecat. Too absurd to be genuinely terrifying, yet too nightmarish to be merely comic, HOUSE seems like it was beamed to Earth from another planet. Or perhaps the mind of a child — the director fashioned the script after the eccentric musings of his 11-year-old daughter, then employed all the tricks in his analog arsenal (mattes, animation and collage) to make them a visually astonishing, raucous reality. (Synopsis courtesy of Janus Films)
New HOUSE print!
A black 12″ x 17” GHOSTPRINT risograph print, in a limited edition of 100, signed and numbered by Sam’s Myth.
$30 ($25 Belcourt members)
Add to your purchase when you buy your HOUSE tickets online, or buy at the Belcourt box office starting Sat, Aug 3 while supplies last.
NOTE: Prints must be picked up at the box office when the Belcourt is open. Prints cannot be shipped to you. No exceptions.
See also: CatVideoFest 2024 (Fri-Thu, Aug 2-8)
“Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone -- no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to HOUSE.” —Manohla Dargis, New York Times “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?” —John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press
