REVIEWS AND PRESS
"Run. Wake your neighbor. Slap your children. Eye your cat with suspicion. Every once in a blue-screen moon, a movie will remind even the most jaded of cult-film aficionados that, no, in fact, they have not seen everything." - Jim Ridley, The Nashville Scene
"Shot with so much visual panache and mid-70s excess that it comes off like Ringu on a Pixy Stix-fueled hug-a-thon ... a brain-rattling delight." - Richard Whittaker, The Austin Chronicle
"MUST-SEE-NOW - Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone — no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to House." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
"About as stylistically unique as you can possibly get." - Cody Stuart, BeatRoute Magazine
"A dangerous amount of fun, best experienced with a crowd of unsuspecting but open-minded cinéastes. Get ready to be bewildered." - Evan Kindley, notcoming.com
"Insanely entertaining ... For connoisseurs of the bizarre, House's revival is long overdue." - Jeff Shannon, The Seattle Times
"FOUR STARS - Like a stream-of-consciousness nightmare sprung from a troubled head resting on a hot-pink pillow." - Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
"Extraordinary ... Manages to be both a fantastically amusing self-reflexive trifle (characters’ names, among them Gorgeous, Fantasy, and Kung Fu, telegraph their traits) and a genuinely unsettling bloodbath." - Benjamin Mercer, The L Magazine
"Truly on its own wavelength ... A dark cartoon of unfettered play." - Chuck Bowen, Slant Magazine
"It may be impossible not to be stunned into dumbness by Nobuhiko Obayashi's House ... Gigglers and cultists, pony up." - Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice
"THREE AND-A-HALF STARS - a ceaselessly entertaining head trip of a movie." - This Week in New York
"One of the most coveted cult films to emerge from the fantastic realm of Asian cinema." - David Wilentz, The Brooklyn Rail
"[An] effects-saturated dreamscape ... Obayashi crams every scene of House with giddy, gaudy visual excess; it’s like Douglas Sirk on acid." - Brian Miller, The Seattle Weekly
"Language cannot do [it] justice ... You’d have to imagine Pee-wee’s Playhouse with a witch that eats schoolgirls, only amped up by a factor of 100." - David Edelstein, New York Magazine
"THE ULTIMATE MIDNIGHT MOVIE - This phantasmagoric head-trip has to be one of the strangest and most surreal movies ever made." - Matt Singer, IFC.com
"Deliciously au courant in its mix of lo-fi complexity found at the core of so much art making today ... not to be missed." - Richard J. Goldstein, BOMBLog
"A veritable grab-bag of cutesy-horror gags and insane low-fi special effects, employed in a truly joyful, free-spirited approach that is astonishing in its sheer inventiveness as well as its bluster ... sheer hallucinogenic glee." - Chris Radcliff, NYC Cine
"THREE AND-A-HALF STARS - Movies as original as this one don't come along very often, so grab it while you can." - V.A. Musetto, The New York Post
"Movies are rarely, if ever, as whirringly rich and strange as House ... Every little thing about it demands attention." - Steve Dollar, Paste Magazine
"To call House original is an understatement. 'Dizzyingly, effervescently insane' might be more appropriate." - Molly Young, More Intelligent Life
"Nothing short of insanely brilliant ... Hardly a frame is wasted from the very first to the very last." - Marvin Miranda, Examiner.com
"Beautiful, outlandishly silly, and profoundly disturbing ... Its attention to detail and explosive charisma make it fresh and exciting, even 30 years after it was made." - Evan Bobrick, New Mexico Daily Lobo
