On Sunday, I went to see ‘Hausu’ at the Northwest Film Forum with Nicole. The description on the theater website read:
“Get ready to have your mind blown! This exceptionally wild and funny horror-fantasy is like nothing you’ve ever seen before—we guarantee it. A teenage girl brings six of her classmates along for a summer vacation at her grandmother’s country estate. What the girls don’t know is that grandma is a ghost and her house is haunted. They start to catch on when an evil housecat convinces a piano to eat one of the girls…and then it starts getting weird! Hausu is a truly absurd and thrilling rediscovery.”
At one point during the film, I leaned over to Nicole and said that I must have accidentally ingested acid at some point, because that’s the only way what I was seeing onscreen made sense. This movie has, in no particular order: dancing skeletons, magic cats, creepy aunts, a man made out of bananas, detached limbs performing kung-fu moves, a bottomless pit disguised as a girl, magic oceans of blood that peel off clothing, and a woman who exists almost entirely in slow-motion with floaty scarves. I didn’t expect it to be nearly as funny as it was, but now that I’m aware of its existence, it will have to be included in the lineup at some future Blood & Guts & Punch & Pie.
You forgot: carnivorous piano.
OH WAIT sorry didn’t see the description.
Also: watermelon that turns into eyes in your mouth!
Have you seen The Happiness of the Katakuris? It’s… definitely a similar experience.
Not yet, it’s on my Netflix list.
😀 so amazing! and much fun, glad we were able to go see it together.
I’m so glad we went, thank you for letting me know about it! 🙂
Wow, I must see this movie for our Halloween party! lol.
It’s sad, it’s only August and I’m already thinking about Halloween. XD
Lol, I am too actually! It always begins in August.
Yup, it begins in August and then the whole month of September I get antsy for putting out decorations. LOL, last year I think I put them out mid-September because I just couldn’t take waiting anymore!
“… a man made out of bananas…”
This totally reminds me of the man made out of packaged meat from John Dies at the End.
I haven’t seen John Dies at the End but now I’m intrigued.
It’s a book by a fellow who has written for National Lampoon and Cracked, and I love it so. I’ll be happy to loan you a copy if you like.
Yes! Bring it to B&G&P&P on Friday!
Done and done!
Very bizarre, although speaking from experience ALL housecats are evil!
I tend to agree but this one is particularly evil.
Oh! You have saved me! I love you!
Holy fuck I must see this film !
Re: Oh! You have saved me! I love you!
Yes! Do it!
I saw that movie a few months ago when it played at UWM…I found it quite hilariously awesome…
What a coincidence. I, too, am a fear too beautiful to resist!
(I cannot WAIT to see this at a future B&G&P&P!)
And, not all housecats are evil…just Pete.