I Am Curious Giallo

So they have gone and made a game out of the movie The Human Centipede. If anybody wants to know why I was a half an hour late picking up Joe from work last night, click the link.

I am, however, more excited about the upcoming Criterion DVD of House, the 1977 Nobuhiko Obayashi freak-out that never saw an official American release, yet as years as a bootleg and late-night television viewings has probably influenced everyone from Sam Raimi to Takashi Miike with its own inexplicable hodgepodge of horror, German expressionist thriller, Italian crime drama and good ol' American Tex Avery-style animated lunacy. Inspired from a story idea by Nobuhiko's young daughter, it involves a group of perpetually cheerful teenage girls with names like Gorgeous (the pretty one), Melody (the piano player) and Fantasy (the dreamer) who come to visit Gorgeous' aunt and so many strange things begin to happen it sets all future standards in Japanese cinematic high-weirdness.

House will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray in October. I was thinking about ordering it through work but I'm more and more tempted to place it here, because you get a pretty swell T-shirt as a bonus.