I love House. I can’t think of another film that looks like it. Need to check out the director’s other work.
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Short answer no... for a grown-up. Imagine a movie that's that's something scary from a kids movie for the length of the film. Like a certain kind of nightmare that's silly in hindsight but affected you at the time. It follows kid dream logic and I imagine without the grown up filter and you accept everything, weird effects and all, thanks that case, yes.
Is House scary?
I've mentioned this before but the scene in Bride where Pretorius just has himself a nice outing inside a crypt, downing wine and cigars while cackling at a skeleton is one of the most incredible and perfect moments in cinema.
The other movie that it reminds me of is actually Beyond The Valley of the Dolls. In that, it seems to be at time intentionally a parody and also unintentionally goofy. House is similarly a movie that is very much its own thing and it is hard to completely discern the intent. There is genuine cleverness but there's also the stuff where you have to ask "am I reacting at all in a way the artist intended?"I went in thinking its some kind of "so good its bad" movie. But if someone where to ask me know "is it a silly movie watch or genuinely good" I'd say yes. Its an artist following his own vision and his vision is insane and imaginative and wild and like nothing else. He chose to make the special effects unrealistic to give it a dream-like quality. And the film very much is like a child's dream: it has all the elements of making you uneasy but at the same time it is still incredibly goofy. Its almost the inverse of those movies from your childhood that were aimed at you but scared you. It means to scare but it also delights with its whimsy.
The other movie that it reminds me of is actually Beyond The Valley of the Dolls.
They know quality.Incidentally, also in the Criterion Collection
Please tell me there’s nothing like that House film on the docket today.
No, sir. But we do have a triple feature.
Oh dear.
What’s the matter Mr. Master? Gettin’ scared!? Bring ‘em on!
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American gothic horror film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, and Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch is a 1982 American science fiction horror film and the third installment in the Halloween film series. It is the first film to be written and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. John Carpenter and Debra Hill, the creators of Halloween, return as producers. In the film, Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover a plot by Halloween mask company Silver Shamrock.
The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American supernatural horror film written, directed and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. It is based on the purportedly true story of three student filmmakers—Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, and Joshua Leonard—who hike into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland in 1994 to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch.
Halloween 3 remains the only movie in the series I’ve watched and I felt no particularly strong desire to correct that since I doubt that a masked murder man with scary eyes can live up to the totally nonsense that is Season of the Witch
Finding out I had Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula at number 4 was a bit of a surprise and makes me wonder if I should apologize for my list.
Wikipedia disagrees somewhat:Blair Witch holds up I think even without the "is it real????" conceit. It invented a new genre if nothing else
There were lots of individual parts of Dracula I really liked, even if I didn't care that much for the final product
I'm a big fan of the RibThere were lots of individual parts of Dracula I really liked