i have hear and read on numerous occasion that house be an incredibly weird and far out japanese interpretation of a haunt house movie and but the truth be that absolutely nothing can fully prepare you for how crazy and demented this film really be . to simply label house a a horror movie would be a serious insult and a this be more like a fairy tale on hard drug and a wacko coming of age parable and even somewhat of a musical comedy . even the often encountered description and say this film be what beetlejuice would look like if direct by dario argento and come to naught . if you really must compare this to any other film and then rank it alongside the weird cinematic experiment ever make and like el topo and i walk like a crazy horse and possession . i think you can philosophy about the deep meaning and symbolism of hausu for week and and every opinion and interpretation could be assume a correct . me and personally and i regard the plot a a sort of version of hansel and gretel and but with seven japanese gretels and no hansel and with an auntie in a remote creepy castle instead of a witch in a gingerbread cabin in the wood . summer vacation be come up and but the holiday plan of the cute teen oshare abruptly become cancel when his father introduce his new and much young girlfriend . instead of travel with them and oshare invite her six close school friends all of them with adorable nickname base on their personality and like fantasy and kung fu and melody to head out to the countryside and pay a visit to oshare aunt whom she hasn not see since her mother die . the aunt welcoming be extremely warm and gracious and but she as well a her estate and even the white cat snowflake be nevertheless surround with an aura of mystery and creepiness . agatha christie style and the girl then subsequently meet their highly imaginative death one by one . the girl who always hungry and for example and have her head replace by a watermelon and the musical chick literally become consume by the piano . house be fill with optical illusion special effect that be not exactly terrify but nevertheless very deadly to the main character . even though director nobuhiko obayashi maintain the ambiance of a fantasy or fairy tale movie and the imagery he use be often bizarrely nightmarish and grim and with decapitated head in well and tap dance skeleton and whatnot . the girls character be beautifully draw and and hence you feel a lot of sympathy for each and every single one of them and and it a very stylish film altogether . especially for be a late 70 movie when the horror movie be at their most explicitly rancid and exploitative hausu be an artistic and elegant accomplishment and it honestly deserve to be wide know and globally acclaim and more discussed .