15
1hr 28mins

In this playful dream of a film, feverish colours and genre mutability mix, skip and merge in a uniquely bizarre horror comedy about a haunted (and hungry) house from one of Japan’s most inventive cult directors.

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Halloween All-Nighter
Nobuhiko Obayashi
15
Horror
Contains moderate bloody horror and threat
Japanese
Contains Foreign Language Subtitles

A schoolgirl decides to visit her Aunt for the summer and invites a group of friends, it’s not long before their mischievous antics swerve into hallucinatory Surrealism. After zany college humour, soap opera awkwardness and swooning melodrama the film dives into deliberately amateur special effects and some startlingly beautiful aesthetics as the titular house (and its objects) comes to life.

Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Hanagatami, Labyrinth of Cinema), House is a truly bizarre marvel that combines kaleidoscopic technical decisions, avant-garde influences and a reimagining of Japanese ghost-lore with the colourful pulp and poetry of restless genre-switching. A brain-spinning vision that is as mischievously hilarious as it is imaginatively strange.

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Fri 31 Oct