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Tix on Sale FAST FIVE WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1130 215) 500 745 1030 AFRICAN CATS (G) Fri.1000 1230 (245) 515 730 945 Sat. - Sun.1230 (245) 515 730 945 TYLER PERRY'S MADEA'S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1140 210) 445 720 950 GIANT SCREEN: SCREAM 4 (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.750 PM 1015 PM THE CONSPIRATOR (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1240) 415 700 955 SCREAM 4 (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1135 200) 435 705 940 JANE EYRE (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(155) 440 725 1010 RIO (G) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1205 240) 455 715 1000 RIO IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICING (G) ★ Fri. - Sun.(1235 300) 645 930 OC & DA: SOUL SURFER (PG) Fri.(1200 PM) Sat.(230 PM) Sun.(1200 PM) 1005 PM IMAX: BORN TO BE WILD 3D (G) ★ Fri. - Sun.1210 140 250 355 510 630 YOUR HIGHNESS (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1155 220) 520 755 1025 SOUL SURFER (PG) Fri.(230) 505 735 1005 Sat.(1200) 505 735 1005 Sun.(230 PM) 505 PM 735 PM ARTHUR (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1215 PM) 635 PM HANNA (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1145 235) 740 1020 HOP (PG) Fri. - Sun.(1150 205) 425 650 920 INSIDIOUS (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(255 PM) 935 PM SOURCE CODE (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1225) 420 640 925 SCREAM 4 (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(220) 500 730 955 RIO IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICING (G) ★ Fri. - Sun.(230) 450 720 940 SOUL SURFER (PG) Fri. - Sun.(150) 430 700 930 HANNA (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(200) 440 710 950 ARTHUR (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(140) 420 650 945 YOUR HIGHNESS (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.920 PM INSIDIOUS (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(210) 510 740 1000 HOP (PG) Fri. - Sun.(130 PM) 410 PM 645 PM TYLER PERRY'S MADEA BIG HAPPY FAMILY - DP (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(100) 430 710 1000 ATLAS SHRUGGED (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(120 345) 645 935 HANNA (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(110) 400 700 940 YOUR HIGHNESS (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(130) 415 720 955 Times For 04/22 - 04/24 © 2011 EUGENE WEEKLY he year 1977 saw a number of upsetting, absurd and/or momentous pop culture events: The rings of Uranus were discovered, for instance, and Fonzi jumped the shark on Happy Days. The world’s ﬁ rst personal computer was demonstrated in Chicago, and Star Wars hit the big screen. Yankee slugger Reggie Jackson became “Mr. October,” the Son of Sam was nabbed, George Willig scaled the south tower of the World Trade Center, Usu erupted, Elvis died, Gummo and Groucho Marx bought the farm, Joan Crawford croaked, Gary Gilmore got the ﬁ ring squad, four gay guys pied Anita Bryant and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane crashed. Jimmy Carter was President. Gas was 62 cents a gallon. And yet — in terms of surpassing weirdness, upside-down oddity and polymorphous psycho-perversion — none of the above items, alone or taken together, can compete with the 1977 release of director Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Japanese horror ﬁ lm Hausu (House). The only thing you can positively assert about House is that the movie exists. It’s real. Beyond that truth, the ﬁ lm is the quintessence of mindfuckery — ontologically inexplicable, aesthetically incoherent, morally repugnant, sexually deviant, generically unidentiﬁ able and totally beyond interpretation. If I were to rub DMSO and peyote into your armpits, hang you by your heels like a piñata, pin your eyelids open, spin you in circles and subject you to an endless loop of sad- happy images like puppies and pineapples and mushroom clouds and plastic surgery, all while circus music crackled through a megaphone, you might approach the sensual experience of watching House. Maybe. Needless to say, House is a masterpiece — but only accidentally and inadvertently so, much in the way that Pink Flamingos and Showgirls are masterpieces. Like a rite of passage, this movie is a thing you must see, and then never see again. A few details are look-up-able about the history of this strange relic. Apparently, after the worldwide success of Jaws, the Japanese distribution company Toho — most famous for its Godzilla franchise — was clamoring for the Asian equivalent of Spielberg’s monster blockbuster. Obayashi, in cooperation with his pre-teen daughter Chigumi, worked up a spec script, but every director at Toho refused to ﬁ lm it, saying such a movie would end his career. Finally, after a couple years of struggle and some self-created hype, Obayashi himself was green-lit to make House. Incorporating his daughter’s surreal, Id-charged ideas with his own memories of surviving the bombing of Hiroshima, Obayashi concocted a skeletal narrative about a schoolgirl, Gorgeous, who travels with six of her classmates to her aunt’s home in the countryside during summer vacation. The aunt’s house is haunted, of course, but not in any recognizable, Fall of the House of Usher sort of way. The ghoulish guts of this particular house are something akin to Evil Dead meets H.R. Pufnstuf, with elements of Gone with the Wind, Yellow Submarine, Enter the Dragon and Inland Empire thrown in the mix. For those sharp of eye and bent of mind, House reveals its inﬂ uences in ﬁ ts and starts and tits and farts, moving in grindhouse spasms from the perverse juxtapositions of John Waters to the overdetermined gore of Dario Argento, and from the google-eyed madness of Sergio Leone to the blotchy faux-gothic gloom of Ken Russell. Even more interesting to behold, however, is House’s obvious inﬂ uence on the sped- up, slapstick grotesqueries and campy special effects of Evil Dead director Sam Raimi, who likely thought, upon seeing a decapitated head ﬂ y out of the aunt’s well and bite a schoolgirl on the ass, Wow, Mr. Obayashi is really onto something here! “But too many strange things are happening one after another,” says Prof, one of the giggling schoolgirls who is beleaguered, buggered, battered and butt- bit over the course of House’s descent into cinematic delirium. And one after another, like a killer kaleidoscope, this categorically uncategorizable movie doesn’t just transgress taboos — it obliterates them, by comparing Nagasaki’s A-Bomb bloom to cotton candy, offering visions of a necrophiliac piano and, in general, dropping the viewer in media res into a loopy nightmare that feels like speed skating across the cerebral cortex of a cannibalistic clown. House is a big tangle of the horrifying and the hilarious, but the laughter it elicits is distinctly Freudian, an abreaction to an overdose of the macabre. One must enter this house at one’s own risk, but one must enter nonetheless. “Can such things happen in this world?” Gorgeous wonders at one point. Apparently so. But they must be seen to be believed. ew House plays through Tuesday, April 26, at the Bijou Art Cinema; info and times at www.bijou-cinemas. com or 686-2458. WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM • BLOGS.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM