House(1977)
1977 · Nobuhiko Obayashi · 88 min
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.
Comedy · Fantasy · Horror
7.3816 votes
TMDB score
2/5
Intensity
2/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How House scares
Watching it feels like tumbling through a fever dream that's more delighted with itself than trying to frighten you, full of cartoonish visual tricks, weird colors, and effects that look handmade in the best way. The pace jumps around constantly, throwing in sudden bursts of strange imagery rather than building slow dread, so you're kept off balance more by confusion and wonder than actual fear. Blood and violence show up in ways so exaggerated and silly that they land as funny instead of upsetting. It's best for people who want something wildly creative and strange rather than an actual scare, more midnight-movie fun than horror in the usual sense.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, House rates psychological 2/5, visceral 2/5, gore 2/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 2/5.
- Psychological: 2 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 2 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 2 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 55 of 100 — balanced
Supernatural vs Real-world: 15 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 10 of 100 — leans Fun-scary
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
Starts as a bright, goofy hangout that keeps escalating into wilder, more chaotic bursts of freak-out energy before a manic climax and a quick wind-down.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 3.
How scary is House?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, House rates 2/5 — moderately scary, balancing creeping dread with well-placed shocks. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. Expect it to be moderately gory and fun-first. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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