House

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Nobuhiko Obayashi's House – Criterion Blu-Ray Review

Like any good horror film, the violence and bloodshed escalates with every set piece, each more elaborate (and entertaining) than the last; lighthearted cannibalism, slightly disturbing sexual innuendo, and some demonically possessed shrubbery to inspire The Evil Dead, mixed with Obayashi's freaky fantasia, and you have a potent brew for pure macabre.


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The Magician

...in a brilliant display of cinematic acumen, Bergman teases his audience with his own slight of hand, by concluding his film with a masterful series of shocks and scares, not unlike his legendary dream sequence in Wild Strawberries (which incidentally inspired a nightmare in William Freidkin’s The Exorcist).

Set alone, the rapid-fire series of events wherein the non-believing doctor is trapped in an attic with re-animated body parts and the walking dead would make for a great horror film short, comparable to John Carpenter (Halloween) or even William Castle (House on Haunted Hill).

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