FILM: Avalanche of WTF

By Michael Swan on July 5, 2010

WATCH OUT FOR THAT RAMEN BEAR! >>>

Bloody hell! It will be a dark red week when Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi's 1977 film Hausu hits The Grand Cinema's screen starting Friday. Heralded for its trippiness and cheesy special effects, Hausu, or House, has been restored, newly subtitled and re-released in the United States by Janus Films for another round of feline-fearing, mirror-smashing, random plot detouring (look out for the ramen bear) wackiness.

The goofy ghost story centers on "Gorgeous" and her group of giddy teenage girlfriends who summer vacation at Gorgeous' wheelchair-bound aunt's country house, only to encounter cackling severed heads, a man transformed into fruit, a killer piano, and the meanest house cat of all time.

The Grand Cinema hasn't posted starting times yet. They might be too scared (or more likely can't stop laughing long enough to post them).

Below is the film's trailer if you need your arm twisted (off):