House (1977 film)

House , Hausu? is a 1977 Japanese horror film directed and produced by Nobuhiko Obayashi. The film stars mostly amateur actors with only Kimiko Ikegami and Yko Minamida having any notable previous acting experience. The film is about a schoolgirl traveling with her six classmates to her ailing aunts country home, where they come face to face with supernatural events as the girls are, one by one, devoured by the home.

In Japan, a young girl nicknamed Gorgeous Kimiko Ikegami has plans for a summer vacation with her father Saho Sasazawa who had been in Italy scoring film music. Her father returns home and surprises Gorgeous by announcing she has a new stepmother, Ryoko Ema Haruko Wanibuchi. This upsets Gorgeous as her mother had died years earlier. Gorgeous goes to her bedroom and writes a letter to her aunt asking if she could come visit her this summer instead. Gorgeous aunt replies and allows her to come visit. Gorgeous invites her six friends, Prof Ai Matsubara, Melody Eriko Tanaka, Kung Fu Miki Jinbo, Mac Mieko Sato, Sweet Masayo Miyako and Fantasy Kumiko Oba to come along with her. On arriving at the aunts house, the girls are greeted by Gorgeous aunt Yko Minamida to whom they present a watermelon.After a tour of the home, the girls leave the watermelon in a well to keep it refrigerated. Mac later goes to retrieve the watermelon and does not return. When Fantasy goes to retrieve the watermelon from the well, she finds Macs head, which flies in the air and bites Fantasys buttocks before she escapes. The other girls also begin to encounter other supernatural traps throughout the house. The aunt disappears after entering the broken refrigerator, and the girls are attacked or possessed by a series of items in the house, such as Gorgeous becoming possessed after using her aunts mirror and Sweet disappearing after being attacked by mattresses. These attacks cause the girls to try to escape the house. As soon as Gorgeous walks out the door, the rest of the girls find themselves locked in. The girls try to find the aunt to unlock the door but only find Macs severed hand in a jar. Melody begins to play the piano to keep the girls spirits up as the girls hear Gorgeous singing upstairs. As Prof and Kung Fu go to investigate, Melodys fingers are bitten off by the piano, and it ultimately eats her whole. ........

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