How the hell has Paperhouse not been released to DVD in the USA? I’m often floored by the remarkable films I stumble upon that have little or no release, so much so that this blog is dedicated to my unreleased film finds. But then there are some films where the lack of release seems downright criminal. Paperhouse is one of these. Anna is an emotionally troubled and sick child who spends most of her time drawing. One day, she draws a simple house. After a fainting spell which results in a high fever, Anna dreams the house is real, existing by itself in a barren field. Upon awaking she draws a boy in one of the windows. She soon discovers this boy, Marc, is not only now living in her dream house, but he is unable to walk or leave the confines of her drawing. As Anna’s fever worsens,...
- 6/25/2013
- by Rebekah McKendry
- FEARnet
Before he enjoyed mainstream commercial success directing Clive Barker's "Candyman," Bernard Rose helmed this amazing 1988 dream-horror film that wowed critics who called it a thinking person's "Nightmare on Elm Street." Charlotte Burke plays an overly imaginative 11-year-old British girl who, during an illness, falls deep into a fantasy world where she hooks up with a crippled boy (Elliott Spiers) that she's never met before. She also has disturbing and frightening visions of her father (Ben Cross) and a dark, foreboding country house. The dreams become more and more frightening as the film goes on, in a film that is in many ways better than the more commercial "Candyman." While it mainly stars children, "Paperhouse" is intended strictly for adults and even features some terrifying make-up effects. Perhaps the fact that "Paperhouse" is a difficult film to pigeonhole -- is it a horror film, a fantasy film, an art film?...
- 7/28/2009
- ESplatter.com
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