The House of Yes (1997)

If you can get past how creepy/twisted the plot is, the dialogue is gold. Parker Posey at her best.

Adapted from Wendy MacLeod's play with almost no apparent changes for better or worse, director Mark Waters penned this screenplay about the incest between a Jackie Onassis-obsessed girl and her obliging brother.From start to finish, the air is filled with intellectual dialogue like "What?" and "I don't know", including the padded repeating of several lines like "What do you do all day?" - five times in a row, that one. The acting is small-time all around except for the appealing performances of Genevieve Bujold and Tori Spelling as a spooky mother and waifish fiancé, respectively. Sometimes interesting dark comedy has occasional eerie moments if one can get past the JFK assassination 'parody'.Pretty good title, anyway.

This is one of the most perverse and disturbing black comedies I've seen. And also one of the most well written, well acted and hilarious. I enjoy watching a film that is like watching a stage play (which of course this was based upon). Parker Posey is great as always, as well as everyone else. I thought Tori Spelling was surprisingly good as the "innocent" yet "not so innocent" fiancée. This is the best "dysfunctional family" film I've seen. An extremely offbeat and very funny...satire? Not for everyone, but much more intelligent and clever than most movies today. A great and very underrated film. And I might add, one of the best films of the 1990's.

The movie roughly looks like classic comedies that make their jokes by exaggerating the scenes of classical horror movies:hurricane,a big house,insane women in it,electricity goes off-the candles come... And/or the movie is joking about the classical psychological dramas:abondened mother,incest,murders?...But it is in not either or maybe it is both plus.The House of Yes is a good funny psychological drama.The characters are well outlined and nicely played.Marthy is the man wanted by everybody,because he is handsome, gentle, clever, talented, good in bed,everything that a woman is looking for.JackieO is the twin sister of Marthy,she is as intelligent as him,as talented as him,as strong as him.They are having very good and very special time together,but Jackie is selfish and want everything to be as she wants it to be,she is crazy,she is difficult to be with.Lesly is beautiful,clean girl,blond.She is clever enough and very good person.Marthy is about to marry with Lesly and before that very event,they come to Marthy home for Lesly to meet his family...