History YMMV / Hausu

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Most of the weirdest sequences in the film are courtesy of director Nobuhiko Obayashi's young daughter Chigumi, with whom he and screenwriter Chiho Katsura frequently consulted while making the film. Nobuhiki Obayashi's reasoning for this was to make a horror film based on the things that actually scared real children (he believed adults come up with ideas that have a logical explanation, while children "[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} can come up with things that can't be explained]]").

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome:
** Even moreso than in the ''Franchise/EvilDead'' films; the special effects won't win any prizes for realism (especially the scenes that are bluescreened), but they are so compellingly over-the-top, original, unpredictable, and freaky that you can't help but be impressed by them. WordOfGod says that this is intentional; the film's effects are intended to look unrealistic, as if a child made them.

** Heck, the whole premise of a group of kids taking a vacation at a house that turns out to be haunted by angered spirits would happen again in [[Film/TheEvilDead1981 The Evil Dead]].

* FriendlyFandoms: With ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'', due to both films having bizzare editing, ecclectic and colorful visuals, and SurrealHorror.

* FriendlyFandoms: With ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'', due to both films having bizzare editing, ecclectic and colorful visuals, and odd humor.

* FriendlyFandoms: With ''Film/Creepshow'', due to both films having bizzare editing, ecclectic and colorful visuals, and odd humor.

** From Letterboxd- There is a universe of experiment and innovation here. The film is a catalog of practical effects, bizarre framing, green screening, matte painting, multiple exposures, and video effects. Obayashi mentions experimenting almost daily. Again, in stark opposition to Kurosawa, he did not create a single storyboard for the film. He experimented on set, with he says, a kind of love of the unexpected. One effect is exemplary: Prof is drowning in cat blood, dissolving and disappearing. To accomplish the image, Obayashi suspended her from a rope and slowly covered her with blue paint, using the blue for a chroma key process, the blue paint showing her melting away. The film's editing is a marvel.

* VindicatedByHistory: The film made some good money in its initial release, but critics hated it and it was never exported outside of Japan. That all changed in 2010, when Criterion licensed it for a DVD & Blu-ray release in the USA, and it became such an immediate cult hit that it received screenings in festivals and specialty theaters, and was hailed by critics as a surreal classic.

* SpecialEffectFailure '''and''' SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Even moreso than in the ''Franchise/EvilDead'' films; the special effects won't win any prizes for realism (especially the scenes that are bluescreened), but they are so compellingly over-the-top, original, unpredictable, and freaky that you can't help but be impressed by them. WordOfGod says that this is intentional; the film's effects are intended to look unrealistic, as if a child made them.

* HollywoodPudgy: Mac is described as being a human blimp with an insatiable appetite. Really, though, she's only very slightly thicker than any of the other characters, and it's perfectly normal for teens to have big appetites. Robert Brockway of 1-900-HOTDOG highlighted this by showing a still image of Mac stretching in a crop top and shorts, giving a good view of her cute, rounded baby face, full hips, and ''completely flat belly'':

* CultClassic: It’s got a special place in horror fans’ hearts for its wildly unique imagery and off the wall premise. It’s also one of the rare examples of a cult classic to get the Criterion treatment.

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** While traveling to Gorgeous’ aunts house, Gorgeous tells the girls a story about her aunt’s engagement, which is shown in old film footage that the girls lightheartedly riff on. [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 This concept would later be revisited in the late 80’s by a man and two robots stuck in outer space]].
** Somebody over at Nintendo must’ve taken influence from this movie in regards [[VideoGame/SuperMario64 to a killer maneating piano]].
** The piano melody heard throughout the film almost sounds like it’s about to break out into ''[[Music/MyChemicalRomance The Black Parade]]'' at any moment.
** Heck, the whole premise of a group of kids taking a vacation at a house that turns out to be haunted by angered spirits would happen again in [[Film/TheEvilDead1981 The Evil Dead]].
* FridgeBrilliance: Considering how the girls are killed by things that their personalities gravitated them toward (BigEater Mac dying while going to fetch the watermelon she brought, Gorgeous being possessed when using makeup in a mirror, Sweet being lured into an attack by a doll, Melody being eaten by a piano, and Prof dying while trying to rescue her glasses), it lends a new context to their nicknames. In the beginning, it seems that they're simply named for their archetypal high school roles in their friend group...but by the end, it seems like each nickname ends up describing their FatalFlaw.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Most of the weirdest sequences in the film are courtesy of director Nobuhiko Obayashi's young daughter Chigumi, with whom he and screenwriter Chiho Katsura frequently consulted while making the film. Nobuhiki Obayashi's reasoning for this was to make a horror film based on the things that actually scared real children (he believed adults come up with ideas that have a logical explanation, while children "[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} can come up with things that can't be explained]]").

** Somebody over at Nintendo must’ve taken influence from this movie in regards [[VideoGame/SuperMario64 to a killer man eating piano]].

* UncannyValley

* HollywoodPudgy: Mac is described as being a human blimp with an insatiable appetite. Really, though, she's only very slightly thicker than any of the other characters, and it's perfectly normal for teens to have big appetites. Robert Brockway of 1-900-HOTDOG highlighted this by showing a still image of Mac dancing in a crop top and shorts, giving a good view of her cute, rounded baby face, full hips, and completely ''flat'' belly:

* HollywoodPudgy: Mac is described as being a human blimp with an insatiable appetite. Really, though, she's only very slightly thicker than any of the other characters, and it's perfectly normal for teens to have big appetites.

* HollywoodPudgy: Mac is portrayed as being a human blimp with an insatiable appetite. Really, though, she's only very slightly thicker than any of the other characters.

From Letterboxd- There is a universe of experiment and innovation here. The film is a catalog of practical effects, bizarre framing, green screening, matte painting, multiple exposures, and video effects. Obayashi mentions experimenting almost daily. Again, in stark opposition to Kurosawa, he did not create a single storyboard for the film. He experimented on set, with he says, a kind of love of the unexpected. One effect is exemplary: Prof is drowning in cat blood, dissolving and disappearing. To accomplish the image, Obayashi suspended her from a rope and slowly covered her with blue paint, using the blue for a chroma key process, the blue paint showing her melting away. The film's editing is a marvel.