10 Amazing Movies That Are Total Nonsense

The bonkers brilliance of Nobuhiko Obayashi's 1977 horror-comedy House can best be explained by the director's own admission that most of the crew found the film to be nonsense, but had fun making it regardless.

While it's often said that a movie's quality is inversely proportional to how much fun was had making it, that's clearly not the case here.

Centered around a haunted house which devours a group of unmarried girls who swing by to visit, House is a "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" picture in the best way possible. Even for the slack standards of supernatural horror, there's no logical needle to thread here. Instead, it's just an 88-minute onslaught of insane visual effects-driven gags and some of the most deranged death scenes you'll ever see.

If you can't appreciate a girl being eaten alive by a sentient piano, do you even like cinema? House's mere existence is a strong argument for studios taking a hands-off approach and letting filmmakers do whatever they want. Sometimes you get utter dreck, but sometimes you get something experimentally sense-averse like this.