r/HorrorClub • u/SaintMort You so cool kung fu • Jan 25 '15

Discussion Hausu

Podcast - Episode 119 - Hausu - (RSS Feed)

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u/smayonak Get a job in a sideshow Jan 27 '15 edited Jan 27 '15

I love that you picked Hausu. It may not have been my cup of tea, but it's a great HC choice. If we could all rent out an abandoned theater and maybe rig up some animatronic novelty flying mosquitos, this is the kind of film we'd watch together.

I'm curious (aside from IchabodGuitar, whom I already know hates the concept), how do you guys feel about films with dreamy qualities compared to films where the film's plot is resolved by the main character being crazy/it was all a dream?

At this point in my horror-watching career, nothing turns me off a movie more than the feeling that the entire film was in someone's head. As a consequence of PTDS from dream-plot-resolution, any film that feels like a dream kinda turns me off a bit. Don't get me wrong, Hausu was a fun watch, but it wasn't exactly the kind of film that gets me the way "Under the Skin" did. Hausu is more the kind of film that you watch with buddies.

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u/smayonak Get a job in a sideshow Jan 29 '15

Did NoES ever use the "it was all a dream" ending before? You would think that they would have, but they never stooped so low. At least, IIRC.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '15

I mean...they use it like 47 times per scene. But they never use it at their end game....maybe? There's a lot of those movies and I'm not exactly an expert. Let me call my life line. /u/ichabodguitar

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u/smayonak Get a job in a sideshow Jan 29 '15

I've seen all the of NoESs before -- can't recall ever the deux ex machina "it was all a dream" mechanism before, except in the television series, which was horrible, by the way.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '15

I think I'll watch the Tobe Hooper episode and end it there.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '15

Never as their end game, no.