The director, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, recently passed away, which lead to so many people I know talking about him and specifically this film. This takes the cake and is seriously the weirdest movie I’ve ever seen. Ôbayashi even has David Lynch beat, which I didn’t think was possible. Before I even got to the titular ‘house’ it was like I just dropped acid and was simultaneously watching a soap opera, A HARD DAYS NIGHT, and an episode of CHARLES IN CHARGE. After I got to the house all bets were off as anything that could happen did happen. The colors are vibrant and feel like they are out of an anime specifically in the wardrobe. Bonkers does not even begin to describe it. Everything from the editing to the acting to the effects to the production design to the camera work is absurd. I need to watch something hyper normal now to come down from it. Also the song that plays almost non-stop throughout the film sounds so much like ‘Welcome to the Black Parade’ by My Chemical Romance and that’s all I could think about whenever I heard it.
