Overview
A group of friends discovers that summer vacation can turn into a nightmare when they visit a haunted house.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Graphic
- surreal
- campy
- playful
- cult movie night
- halloween viewing
What critics said
Critics broadly regard House as an original, feverish, and highly inventive cult experience whose playful visual imagination outweighs its technical roughness and baffling excesses.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The girls' supernatural encounters unfold through deliberately crude effects, pop-art compositions, and impossible transformations.
The haunted house dispatches the schoolgirls through colorful, absurd, and often amusingly staged violence.
Gorgeous and her school friends enter a country house where teenage fears, desires, and imagination become material horrors.
The aunt's rural home generates the strange events and causes the girls to disappear one by one.
Films like House, and why
Evil Dead II
shares campy haunted-house horror, exuberant visual experimentation, and playful gore
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
shares psychedelic horror-comedy, stylized practical effects, and gleefully absurd violence
Suspiria
shares baroque color design, supernatural menace, and fever-dream horror imagery
The City of Lost Children
shares surreal teenage horror, schoolgirl-centered peril, and unconventional editing and effects
Movie Details
- Director
- Nobuhiko Obayashi
- Release Date
- 1977-08-26
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 (835)
Cast
- Kimiko Ikegami
- Kumiko Ohba
- Ai Matsubara
- Miki Jinbo
- Eriko Tanaka
- Masayo Miyako
- Mieko Satoh
- Yōko Minamida
- Kiyohiko Ozaki
- Saho Sasazawa
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is House about?
- A group of schoolgirls spends a summer vacation in a rural house that turns adolescent fantasy into a wildly colorful supernatural nightmare.
- What is House like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of House as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is House violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in House as graphic.
- What did critics think of House?
- Critics broadly regard House as an original, feverish, and highly inventive cult experience whose playful visual imagination outweighs its technical roughness and baffling excesses.
- Which films are like House?
- Films with a similar feel include Evil Dead II, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Suspiria, and The City of Lost Children.
- How long is House?
- House runs 88 minutes.
- Where can I watch House?
- In United States, House streams on HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max.
