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House (1977)

September. 01,1977
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7.3
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NR
| Fantasy Horror Comedy

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

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lamtruongtho
1977/09/01

The first time in cinema movie history including the horror movie there is the movie made by different from any movies else that I have never watched. Hausu is where the simple things that could make you go into the craziest things that you have never seen in real life or anything else in your imagination or your dream. Although in this movie there are a lot of goofs but these is just make me laugh and make me insane when these girls go in the HOUSE and the soundtrack is awesome and crazy like the movie. All I consider about the greatest horror masterpiece in Japan

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Robert J. Maxwell
1977/09/02

I'll keep this brief, in keeping with its quality. It's a noisy haunted-house comedy about giggling school girls seeing visions and the like. It's splashy and full of lurid colors and directorial razzle dazzle. It's haunting too, or at least the irrepressible musical theme is -- a kind of children's melody that appears throughout the movie in a dozen guises: as overscore, as a waltz, as a tinkle on a music box.I have nothing against melodies for kids. I mean, "Sesame Street" came up with some catchy tunes and look what Mozart did with "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." Brahms wrote lullabies. But this just never stops. It's going round and round in my head right now, a musical carousel. Even the voices are telling it to stop, but does it listen? Don't make me laugh; I'll lose the beat.Anyway there is some convoluted story about one of the half dozen girls' widowed father being remarried -- to a knockout beauty too, Haruko Wanibuchi. Her name is ethnic but I think if you shook her family tree an American sailor might fall out of it.It's not a total loss. The haunted house is colorful, intricate, and fascinating in its layout. The images are less gaudy as the camera explores its passages and its weird dove-colored garden. And there are courageous references to World War II -- "A long time ago, Japan was in a great war." And there is an unexplained and shocking shot of an exploding atomic bomb. The teen-aged girls are attractive, but only in the way that all teen-aged girls are attractive in their unself-conscious purity. They don't look like the porcelain dolls some people find in Japanese skin flicks. Oh -- and they're polite too, in an old-fashioned way, covering their mouths with their hands when they laugh or giggle.But these virtues are swamped by the slapdash character of the film itself. I wouldn't go out of my way to watch it, unless, of course, there is some deep message in it that I missed in its entirety.

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Claudio Carvalho
1977/09/03

The high-school vacation is coming and the student Oshare intends to spend the period with her father in his villa; however she finds that his girlfriend Kyouko will be with him and Oshare gives up going. Meanwhile her best friends will be camping with Keisuke Tôgôbut, but he has a problem and calls off the camping. Oshare writes a letter to her estranged aunt that lives in the country asking whether she could go with her friends Kunfû, Fanta, Gari, Makku, Merodî and Suîto to spend the summer vacation at her house. They are welcomed by Oshare's aunt but soon weird things happen since the aunt is a ghost and the house is haunted."Hausu" is a messy and annoying Japanese ghost story. The silly screenplay is irritating and the music score is awful. Hard to understand why some people consider this garbage cult. My vote is one (awful).Title (Brazil): "Hausu"

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David Brailsford
1977/09/04

This whole story is hard to follow confusing as heck and feels like the love child of 60s Casino Royale and Manos: The Hands of Fate. A girl decides to run away to her aunts cottage after learning her dad is re-marrying... She Takes her group of friends who all have names based on there characteristics... They go to her aunts house and meet her soon its revealed the place isn't what it seems and before long the house and its inhabitants start trying to kill everyone. Eventually its revealed that the house is possessed by an evil ghost killing all single girls because said ghost was never married and holds a grudge because of this... There is a ton of special effects that date the movie to the late 70s. My personal favorite the music girl melody is eaten by a piano. The main girl gets sucked into her aunts world and everything goes crazy.Its really hard to explain everything that goes down but its a weird colorful mess, kind of like evil dead, only with a harder to follow story. Its a fun ride from start to finish.

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