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.