Watch out for that lampshade!
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If you liked "RoboGeisha," you'll love "Hausu"! I don't know anything about this movie, except that it was made in 1977, it involves a murderous lampshade, and you should probably not watch it if you don't like blood fountains, disembodied body parts, light fixtures, screaming cats, screaming cat paintings, or screaming cat paintings spewing blood. Maybe in the comments somebody would like to tell us what they're hollering about? Probably NSFW due to some disembodied boobs. (Via Buzzfeed)
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Did I just have a seizure? I think I just had a seizure.
"Maybe in the comments somebody would like to tell us what they're hollering about?"
Probably something about what they're going to do to their agent for getting them that role.
There's a rip of a German DVD with English subs out there floating around on the internets! I posted some info on this movie on my blargh a few months ago, along with a link to a subtitled streaming video of the entire film.
Review by Patrick Macias here.
...I don't even know what to say after that. I need a drink.
The creepiest part is that the girl who gets all disembodied looks EXACTLY like my ex-gf, down to the haircut.
They screen this at Cinefamily in Los Angeles now and again. It's pretty outstanding.
I saw this at the Boston Underground Film Festival a few months ago and then it showed up on IFC when I was flipping through the channels, and now this. Clearly this crazy house is following me.
Yakety Sax?
They played this at the Hyperion Tavern in LA for a movie night. hilariously bad - oddly all the outdoor scenes take place indoors. You can rent a good transfer of this over at greencine.com!
Coming soon from the creators of Deathbed, The bed that eats people! It's Lampshade, the lampshade that eats people!
So THAT'S what happened to the flying guillotine!
Wiring in those old Japanese houses is always a bit sketchy.
This just had two screenings at the New York Asian Film Festival. It's a title Janus/Criterion picked up a long time ago, did a gorgeous digital transfer of, and then sat on for ages. They allowed us to screen the transfer and it's pretty eyeball-bursting. The first screening sold out and we scheduled a second, which also sold out. Email Criterion and tell 'em you want to see it on DVD as it's closer to getting a release than ever before.
The director, Obayashi, is most famous for his commercial work (the "Mandom" ads on YouTube, among others) and for doing a lot of avant garde underground filmmaking. He was offered a chance to do a feature film by a studio because they were desperate to try anything that might work and his eleven year old daughter came up with the story for HOUSE.
It stands with movies like EL TOPO and MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH as a purely visionary, psychedelic take on a genre film (respectively, horror, Western, sci fi) and is a hell of a lot of fun to boot.
If you want to see more of it....email Criterion.
The cat seems to be chargin' his lazer...
looks like evil dead in japan
I have a theory: all the acid that ends up in Japan is way, way past its expiration date.
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I love the implication that "blood fountains, disembodied body parts, light fixtures, screaming cats, screaming cat paintings, or screaming cat paintings spewing blood." are safe for work, but a random boob is not.
Hilarious!
I recall some American movie with a possessed lamp. My friend swears it was one of the later Amityvilles. I wonder which came first? This one is far cooler. The one I saw had a family and priest being chased around the house at the end. The lamp was not very menacing. Then the credits rolled.
Here's the link to the listing at the NYAFF, as mentioned by #13.
http://www.subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=134&Itemid=94
"LSD, thy name is HOUSE! One part glossy teen hijinx, one part horror movie, and one part whacked out whatzit, this long-lost headtrip from Japan can’t be described, it can only be experienced...."
Hello, Kitty.
Wow. They musta got them some GREAT drugs in Japan.
That whole river of blood beneath the floor thing is a touching tribute to It's a Wonderful Life
Thank you teh Japaneses!!!
It played on IFC a few months ago with newly created English Subtitles. A wonderfully strange movie, to be sure. The film is a catalog of in camera tricks and post production mania.
RE:#9, It's not a bad film in the least. Everything in the film is intentional; the humor and the horror. It is, perhaps, one of the most original and refreshing films of the latter half of the 20th century. No one who's ever seen it has ever forgotten it.
I thought this was about Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes (1989). Now that was a scary lamp.
#8 POSTED BY I_PREFER_YETI, JULY 8, 2009 2:45 PM
Yakety Sax?
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I caught this on IFC when it aired last year. I'm a fan of bizarre Japanese movies, and this is one of the most tripped out. The 70's commercial vibe mixed with the Argento-like SFX horror is beyond belief! If you liked just that little piece, you really owe it to yourself to find the whole thing. (koff..koff..intarwebs..koff)
It's an amazing and crazy film. Very scary and hilarious (intentionally).
I've had a bootleg copy for years, but a beautiful new transfer was just screened in the New York Asian Film Festival, so hopefully that's an indication that a proper release is imminent. I've heard that Criterion holds the rights, so fingers crossed.
The laughing lamp in Evil Dead 2 was rather menacing, although it preferred mocking our hero rather than spewing any blood fountains.
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You had me at "screaming cats"
#27 I've never seen a better use of the Benny Hillifier. It works disturbingly well, like syncing Dark Side of the Moon to The Wizard of Oz, only with more screaming cat paintings spewing blood.
PS which band released that album? Screaming Cat Paintings Spewing Blood?
#27 - You are my new hero!