10 Psychedelic Horror Movies That Mess With Your Brain

10. House

Whenever we think of J-horror, it tends to be the likes of Ringu, Ju-On, and Dark Water that springs to mind first - the dead, wet girls that have become the mascots of the genre. One film that's perhaps went under your radar is that of House (Hausu).

Directed and co-produced by Nobuhiko Obayashi, this utterly bonkers film follows high school student Gorgeous (Kimiko Ikegami) visit her aunt's house with a group of friends. Unfortunately for the girls, though, there's an evil presence within this house that devours them one-by-one in increasingly strange ways that range from being swallowed by a piano to being entombed within a grandfather clock.

Likewise, the film's presentation is just as appropriately off-the-wall. Through combining horror, comedy, fantasy, stop-motion, animation, and a bubblegum pop aesthetic all in the relatively short runtime just shy of 90 minutes, this film is contained within its own uniquely strange world that hasn't been rivalled since.

Originally designed to be Toho's answer to Jaws, Obayashi was given the opportunity to develop the script. Basing it on the childlike fears of his young daughter, it would take a further two years before Obayashi was allowed to direct, creating an under-seen cult gem.