House, Party Movie Night

The English title to this movie is House but so as not to confuse it with the great William Katt/George Wendt/Richard Moll movie...



...I'm going to call it by its Japanese name Hausu. It's from 1977 but just got released last year, playing at some theaters and then put out by The Criterion Collection. That might sound prestigious but Criterion has some questionable selections. Armageddon, Chasing Amy, The Blob (they'd be better off going with the 1986 version), The Rock, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (and I'm going to assume The Darjeeling Limited is terrible too) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button all make these joke covers more believable.



But I don't think Hausu belongs in that category. Looking at the list of releases, however, I realized that while I said Hausu will be our first Criterion Collection movie that was actually White Dog:



I also mentioned that I discovered Hausu while searching for a movie with a killer lamp on YouTube. I didn't find it then but I now know that the movie was Amityville: The Evil Escapes:



Which was probably brought to my attention by the AV Club from their Ridiculous Horror Movie Adversaries Inventory also featuring BMN movies Death Bed: The Bed that Eats and Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare:



Here's what happened last week: