OH MY FREAKING HAUSU!

There's a scene in the middle of The 'Burbs, one of my very favorite movies, when Tom Hanks' Ray Peterson, in a moment of awe, tries to cope with what he's just witnessed.  With a blank expression, he manages to stammer out something like "I've never seen that. I've never seen anybody drive their garbage down to the street and bang the hell out of it with a stick. I've never seen that."

I only bring that up because it's the only way I can come close to describing the thing I've just witnessed - Nobuhiko Obayashi's House (aka Hausu).  I doubt I'm the only person to feel that way, and I imagine this film would give even my Film History professor a brain tumor.  I don't even know what to say right now - I'm relatively sure there are fragments of my brain currently strewn across the back of my recliner.

Obayashi's film might be the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life.  After a prolonged set up regarding a group of school girls going to a remote house for the summer, the film becomes a stream of random and odd supernatural events that...well, that are completely random and crazy and all over the place and kind of amazing to see.

I know that's not much of a description, but if I was to go too far I'd spoil the fun you could have discovering whatever freakish occurrence is coming up next.  Also...there's like no way I can describe what Hausu/House is.  But trust me you guys....IT'S SO GOOOD.  It's the weirdest, awesomest, craziest thing I've seen in ages.  So go find it and watch it and marvel in the wackiness.  Please.  Just do it.  You know you want to.  It's like imperative that you find this movie and watch it, like now.

Here's the trailer.  I'm gonna think about this movie for the next like five hours now.  It's the craziest.