House ★★★★☆
The way I have settled on trying to explain this film is that it’s a horror movie edited like a children’s edutainment programme. It is constantly trying to grab your attention with the way it uses images on the screen.
There are two scenes I think about a lot in particular. The first is the black and white silent flash back sequence where the girls are talking over it as if they are watching it with us, which ends with a wedding photo being taken where the flashbulb is juxtaposed with a montage of nuclear bomb detonations.
The second is when Kung Fug, Prof, Melody and Fanta and guiding Gorgeous down the stairs and it cuts to a low framerate, handheld, first person shot with the girls looking at and talking directly to the camera, even though all five girls are in frame and the camera’s perspective could not possibly represent any of them. It reminds of, of all things, We Know the Devil and its use of “we” in the narration while not being from the perspective of any one individual character.
Also Kung Fu is cool as hell.