AFI Silver After Dark: HOUSE

8633 Colesville Road,Silver Spring MD 20910

19 November, 2022

Description

The latest in the AFI After Dark film series, HOUSE (1977) is a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? SCOOBY-DOO as directed by Dario Argento? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head-trip about a schoolgirl who travels to her ailing aunt's creaky country home and comes face to face with evil spirits, bloodthirsty pianos and a demonic housecat. Too absurd to be genuinely terrifying, yet too nightmarish to be merely comic, HOUSE seems like it was beamed to Earth from another planet. The director fashioned the script after the eccentric musings of his 11-year-old daughter, then employed all the tricks in his analog arsenal (mattes, animation and collage) to make them a visually astonishing, raucous reality.