Hausu (House) Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Bizarre ghost story.
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| Original Score: B-
Top CriticGigglers and cultists, pony up.
Paste Magazine
House suggests that the nitrous-oxide hyperdrive of Japanese pop culture-as vivid now as ever in entertainments like Takashi Miike's Yatterman, for instance-is a brilliantly imagined, if not in fact transcendental brand of therapy
Electric Sheep
Pushed the boundaries of the depiction of terror on screen and reveals the interest in the language of experimental filmmaking in genre and mainstream cinema of the time.
SFX Magazine
If you crashed a teenage girls' pyjama party after necking some bad acid, this is probably what it'd feel like.
eFilmCritic.com
Daffy and brilliant in equal measure, single-minded in its devotion to every wacko trick available to an analog director.
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| Original Score: 5/5
FEARnet
Takes its good, sweet time in getting to the ostensibly scary stuff. But you won't be bored.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Parallax View
Is it good? The question seems to miss the point. It's like nothing you've every seen...
Q Network Film Desk
compelling in its own right, even if it is impossible to take seriously as anything more than a delirious, envelope-pushing experiment
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| Original Score: 3/4
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Really the Damndest Thing: a gleefully chaotic DayGlo haunted house movie (Sam Raimi has to have seen this) that suggests the Sid and Marty Krofft universe gone mental. Ok, mental-er.
Slant Magazine
It's about equal parts brilliant, baffling, ridiculous, and unwatchable.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Austin Chronicle
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
So Sam Raimi, Dario Argento, Russ Meyer and Roman Polanski all walk into a bar ...
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| Original Score: B-
Boston Phoenix
Won't appeal to mainstream appetites, but it's an exotic dish for enlightened palates.
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| Original Score: 3/4
cinemaobsession.com
Plenty of films throughout the years have been called "nightmarish" but never has the statement been more true than in the case of Hausu.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Little White Lies
too smart and funny, too self-aware and post-modern, to be truly scary - but its trippy energy and surreal unpredictability make it a film that takes up long-term residence in your consciousness anyway.
Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone -- no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to House.
| Original Score: 4/5
MovieMartyr.com
All the more awesome for being so totally inexplicable, Hausu may not be ultimately be classifiable as a "good" movie, but it's certainly one that must be seen to be believed.
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| Original Score: 63/100
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).
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| Original Score: 2/4
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
There are quite a few slow spots, head-scratching moments and oddities that make this an endurance test for all but the most determined of movie fans.
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| Original Score: 2/4
