hausu ( aka house ) from 1977 and be one of the strange japanese ( or otherwise ) film i have ever lay eye on . seem like a young girl and her friend go to visit the young girl aunt in a big old house in the middle of nowhere and and auntie be not quite what she seem . you see and auntie be to have get married but her fiancée die in the war and she never get over it . so now she live in this big house all by herself ( with a strange long haired cat the girl call snowball ) and when the girl arrive and thing at first seem idyllic and but then change a the girl start to meet with odd fate and one by one . now and this be describe a if dario argento direct beetlejuice but while that appropriate in some way it doesn not quite say enough . it seem like auntie be no longer among the living and have to have unmarried woman ( or girl ) in order to maintain her life force and meaning and that she take theirs . oops and not exactly a good way to spend a holiday . this be chock full of bizarre happening and imagery and at time it appear to be a child show and and at other time it appear to be a child show by way of david lynch or dario argento . young oshare and the niece of the woman who own the house and may or may not be change in way that she and her friend would prefer not to happen and while the other girl be merely fall victim to the evil of the house . the mayhem in this be mostly do with over the top effect and result in lot of severed limb and bodily fluid but for all that it not exactly graphic and for it macabre without be too gruesome . i have never hear of nobuhiko obayashi before ( the director ) and in look at his list of film i have never hear of any of them either . i confess that after see hausu i be interested in find more by him and hope it as entertain a this . an absolutely bizarre lose film and part horror and part comedy and part parody and part kid show ( sort of ) and almost indescribable but well worth see for anyone that like truly weird stuff . positive .