It's very easy to see why "House" has become something of a cult movie for this Japanese horror-comedy is the just the right, or more probably, the wrong side of bonkers. Director Nobuhiko Obayashi shoots it like a demented home-movie; a slapstick fairy-tale about a group of schoolgirls spending their summer vacation in a haunted house but this is a haunted house movie unlike any other, one that uses animation, silent film techniques and even Japan's role in WW2 to advance what little story it has. It's a surreal fantasy in which technique is everything and it's definitely a young person's movie; watching it I kept thinking of the Monkee's TV show or a psychedelic mishmash of Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood directed by William Castle on acid. It's also an acquired taste, one that's passed me by.
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