New Beverly Cinema
7165 W Beverly Blvd
323.938.4038
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House (Hausu)
- When
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Mar 12, 2010 – Mar 17, 2010
Mondays–Wednesdays (7:30 & 9:45pm)
Fridays (7:30 & 9:45pm)
Saturdays (3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 & 11:59pm)
Sundays (3, 5:15, 7:30 & 9:45pm)
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- Price
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$7
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Even if you've ingested a lifetime's worth of gleeful J-horror violence or knowing, Raimi-style bloodletting, nothing quite prepares you for House, Nobuhiko Obayashi's aggressively bizarre 1977 horror/fantasy mindf*ck. Gorgeous and her six jailbait girlfriends shack up at Auntie's mansion for some R & R — though the murderous piano, lampshade, and blood-spewing cat have other designs. Obayashi directs like Orson Welles gone headfirst down the rabbit hole, throwing out green-screens, irises, rotoscope, matte, animation, and dozens of other gratuitous effects. It's a Fun With Genre tutorial, too, mashing up avant-garde, giallo, and '70s Saturday Morning. Speechlessness is understandable, but Janus Films deserves a thousand "thank yous" for unearthing this unlikely stroke of pop-surrealist brilliance.
