Yesterday, the University of Chicago's Doc Films screened the Japanese cult item House, an "incredibly odd Japanese horror feature [that's] like a Hello Kitty backpack stuffed with bloody human viscera," writes J.R. Jones, quite accurately and, uh, poetically. (If you've never seen the film and missed Doc's screening, the DVD is available via Criterion; you'll understand pretty quickly what Jones is getting at there.)…
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