{"id":3375,"date":"2011-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christiebeaulac.com\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2011-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T00:00:00","slug":"house-aka-hausu-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/house-aka-hausu-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"House (aka Hausu) 1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that I&#8217;m by no means the first to discover it, but I watched the Criterion copy of Obayashi&#8217;s 1977 cult classic horror movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NN0HVJ5tkIM\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NN0HVJ5tkIM');\">House<\/a> several weeks ago, and took some screengrabs which I forgot about. This movie is hard to describe- it is funny, suggestive, cheesy, campy, surreal, a little creepy, and beautiful in many ways. It combines optical printing with animation, live action, stop motion, and so many editing gems I can&#8217;t even describe here. It seems self-aware but is so over-the-top crazy. House is not really horror (if you, like me, are leery of horror flicks) and is worth a watch for it&#8217;s sheer artistic value and absurdity. With characters named Gorgeous, Fantasy, Prof, Mac, Melody, and Kung Fu, how can you go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not convinced by the screengrabs, then I have two words for you: WITCH CAT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_7_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house_7_webcopy.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/file\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_7_webcopy.jpg');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_7_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house, hausu, the look see, japanese, movie\" alt=\"house, hausu, the look see, japanese, movie\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_15_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house_15_webcopy.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/file\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_15_webcopy.jpg');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_15_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house, hausu, the look see, japanese, movie\" alt=\"house, hausu, the look see, japanese, movie\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_7_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house_7_webcopy.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/file\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_7_webcopy.jpg');\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_6_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house_6_webcopy.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/file\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_6_webcopy.jpg');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_6_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house, hausu, the look see, japanese, movie\" alt=\"house, hausu, the look see, japanese, movie\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_18_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house_18_webcopy.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/file\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_18_webcopy.jpg');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_18_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house, hausu, the look see, japanese, movie\" alt=\"house, hausu, the look see, japanese, movie\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_21_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house_21_webcopy.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/file\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_21_webcopy.jpg');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_21_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house, hausu, the look see, japanese, movie\" alt=\"house, hausu, the look see, japanese, movie\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_22_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house_22_webcopy.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/file\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_22_webcopy.jpg');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_22_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house, hausu, the look see, japanese, movie\" alt=\"house, hausu, the look see, japanese, movie\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_24-webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house_24-webcopy.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/file\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_24-webcopy.jpg');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_24-webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house, hausu, the look see, japanese, movie\" alt=\"house, hausu, the look see, japanese, movie\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_25_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house_25_webcopy.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/file\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_25_webcopy.jpg');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/house_25_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"house, hausu, the look see, japanese, movie\" alt=\"house, hausu, the look see, japanese, movie\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that I&#8217;m by no means the first to discover it, but I watched the Criterion copy of Obayashi&#8217;s 1977 cult classic horror movie House several weeks ago, and took some screengrabs which I forgot about. This movie is hard to describe- it is funny, suggestive, cheesy, campy, surreal, a little creepy, and beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,22,23],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}