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Japanese horror flick from ’77 will eff you up
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THE FIGHTER
7:20
OSCAR WINNERS
I LOVE YOU
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AFRICAN CATS G
12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50
ARTHUR PG-13
12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20
THE CONSPIRATOR PG-13
11:15AM 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2:
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11:15AM 1:55, 4:35
HANNA PG-13
11:30AM 2:15, 5:00, 7:35, 10:15
HOP PG
12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15
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11:25AM 2:20, 5:05, 7:45, 10:30
RANGO PG
11:25AM 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05
RIO G
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GNOMEO AND JULIET G
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I AM NUMBER FOUR PG-13
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ARTHUR (PG-13)
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HANNA (PG-13)
Fri. - Sun.(1145 235) 740 1020
HOP (PG)
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INSIDIOUS (PG-13)
Fri. - Sun.(255 PM) 935 PM
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ARTHUR (PG-13)
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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.
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House plays through Tuesday, April 26, at the Bijou
Art Cinema; info and times at www.bijou-cinemas.
com or 686-2458.
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