House

Watching this film is like jamming fistfuls of delicious candy into your mouth for 90 minutes. It’s a rush chasing a rush.

House suggests that the nitrous-oxide hyperdrive of Japanese pop culture—as vivid now as ever in entertainments like Takashi Miike’s Yatterman, for instance—is a brilliantly imagined, if not in fact transcendental brand of therapy. Read full review

Elevating silliness to the level of profundity, House doesn’t so much serve its swirling madness to you as it dunks your head into a cauldron full of it. Read full review

A midnight movie in lysergic spirit and vibe, this was a film made for late-night screening and screaming. Read full review

House isn’t all that scary, but it is weird in all the best ways, and nothing else looks or feels like it. Read full review

Truly, this is some kind of wonderful. (Horrific, hilarious, disturbing … but wonderful.) Read full review

House is a spooky fairy tale mixed with martial arts, slow motion, black-and-white flashbacks — even a little upskirt action. A demonic white cat and a people-eating piano add spice. Movies as original as this one don’t come along very often, so grab it while you can. Read full review

House is one of the most exciting genre discoveries in years. [17 Jun 2010, p.14]

Dear ol' auntie is not what she seems, and "House" turns into a horror-fantasy comedy that grows increasingly absurd as the body-count rises, provoking more laughs than fear with over-the-top scenes involving severed limbs, a ravenous piano, attacking mattresses and a cat with telekinetic powers. [27 Nov 2009, p.E16]

Equal parts brilliant, baffling, ridiculous, and unwatchable. Read full review

This is never really scary, but it isn’t quite funny either. The movie strikes its own demented chord. Read full review

This incredibly odd Japanese horror feature (1977) is like a Hello Kitty backpack stuffed with bloody human viscera. Read full review