Quartile rating: 7.5/10 · 1 rating
Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.
House (1977) is one of cinema's most genuinely singular experiences — a deliriously inventive haunted house film that defies easy categorization. Its cinematography is wildly experimental, using every trick in the book: painted backdrops, split screens, animation, superimposition, and kaleidoscopic editing that feels entirely its own. Its novelty is essentially unmatched; no other film looks or feels quite like it. The plot, however, is tissue-thin — a loose framework for set-pieces rather than a cohesive narrative — and the acting is broadly campy and deliberately stylized, functional within the film's logic but not genuinely impressive. The ending maintains the anarchic energy but doesn't quite deliver a satisfying or particularly memorable payoff compared to the wild middle section.