It also reminded me in a small way of things like Labyrinth and Mirrormask, two other movies that involve young teens living in their own fantasy worlds. . Recommended to Andrea by: Malcolm. Check out the exclusive TVGuide.com movie review and see our movie rating for Paperhouse PAPERHOUSE opens on the 11th birthday of Burke, whose relationship with … Mobile site.
You’ll probably be the only one to comment on this – I think it’s pretty obscure. Soon, Anna learns that Marc is a real boy with a muscular illness. You’d think that, after making a critically beloved and commercially successful film like “Candyman,” Rose would’ve become a well known director. Made by fans in Auckland, New Zealand.
I feel better now. She finds she can add to this world by drawing more of the picture but things soon turn sinister in her dream world. Elliot Spiers, who died suddenly while “Paperhouse” was awaiting release, gives a similarly nuanced performance as Marc. There are some powerful themes at work here and they’re played in a way that you genuinely feel for Anna having to cope with both her feelings and actions (at one point in the story she tries to destroy the drawing, leaving the house in a dark, decaying state) and learn adult responsibility. My goal in life is to ruin him. It feels very low budget & 80’s (not negative things in my book) and… I don’t know! This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. It IS kind of creepy. It just appeared in my collection… I made Michael watch it, and he thought it was a great idea and would make a great book, but that it needed work. It’s a weird one but I did like the story. If I’d have seen this as a 12 or 13-year-old, I think I’d have loved it. Anna attempts to draw Marc working legs. Yet the house isn’t a retreat from reality either. At night, she sleeps, visiting the changing home. During the day, she adds to the drawing of the house. What there is, is a great deal of subtext. It’s certainly not a film for everyone and it’s hard to know if I’d recommend it to anyone. I know who might like it! subsequent research into the fates of its two leads (one died of an illness just a few years later, the other never appeared onscreen again) lends it an extra tinge of pathos. ( Log Out / Directed by: Bernard Rose. I’ve never heard of this one but it sounds like I would have liked it when I was 12 or 13 as well. I don’t get much time to reply to anyone during the week – I’ll catch up with you all this weekend! lol .
If you go searching for it on the internet you’ll often find it pigeonholed into the Horror genre, however this is doing the film a wild disservice as it is so much more than that.
looks really creepy. It’s very much the weird sort of dark fantasy/slightly scary kind of thing I always loved (my favorite TV show from a very young age was The Twilight Zone). There is a boy whose legs are paralyzed both in her dreams and in reality, she tries to save him. It was on the TV, and I had a 14″ black and white TV in my bedroom, so it would be interesting to watch it in colour. Seriously – I have no clue what to rate this one. It IS a good concept. Brian is going to yell at me for my confusing ratings again if he reads this. But interesting. A lot of reviews compare this movie to Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures, which is kind of a fair comparison although Paperhouse is certainly less horrific. View all posts by Andrew Beeken. The film is closer to being a Fantasy/Drama than a Horror. I loved being creeped out, I think. To rate, slide your finger across the stars from left to right. I’m going to be different to everyone else in the comments as I have actually seen this, probably when I was about 12 or 13! I think you would have liked this one. Definitely Phantom of the Paradise & The Fault In Our Stars but, hmm… I think we can think of a better third one with which to torture him. Any spoilers should be placed in spoiler tags as such. Paperhouse is often cited as a forgotten gem of 80's British film. The shadowy shots of the nightmare version of Anna’s father descending down a hill are deeply creepy. ( Log Out / Right? She slowly develops romantic feelings for Marc, the literal boy of her dreams. Paperhouse. She draws an ice cream machine but forgets to draw cones to eat the dessert with. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Concept is intriguing enough to me! Votes are used to help determine the most interesting content on RYM. , Thanks! Keep an eye out for this one – it’s often shown in the Horror channel in the UK and is well worth watch. (still do now!) She draws him into the house but, in a rage, scratches out his eyes. Once the supernatural link between Anna's crayon and her dream world is firmly established, the film takes the viewer on a hallucinatory trip that's full of foreboding. . “Paperhouse” captures a dream like tone with its eerie production design. I can’t remember if I mentioned it in the review but the actor who played the boy had a very tragic life & died at the age of 20 or so I think.
REVIEW: Director – Bernard Rose Starring – Charlotte Burke, Elliott Spiers, Glenne Headly I can’t draw. One of those talents that I wish I had but for some reason just can’t seem to grasp. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account.
The girl’s youthful resentment of her father manifests as a horror movie, an atmospheric sequence of a hammer wielding madman stalking Anna and Marc. Lol. While sitting bored in school, 11 year old Anna absent-mindedly doodles a drawing of a house. It falls close to commercial 80s schlock with its stylized imagery and its synthetic soundtrack, but I must admit that all the dreams scenes are efficient and close to surrealism, and like in "real" dreams, the dreamer knows that nothing will harm her. Rated the #111 best film of 1988, and #8367 in the greatest all-time movies (according to RYM users). There's much symbolism and ambiguity here to sink your teeth into. Maybe it would be worth reading the book instead! Film data from TMDb. Laura – I think you’d be interested in checking this one out. Bernard Rose's Paperhouse is one of the great unknown art house horror films of the last quarter century, just for the sheer vividness of its psychological terrorscape. I’d be kind of interested in reading the book. I don’t even know why or how I watched Paperhouse but like you I loved being creeped out as a kid!! It's like a Bergman film, in which the clarity is almost overwhelming, and we realize how muddled and cluttered most movies are.
When looking this up, I saw that it’s from the same director (Bernard Rose) who later went on to make Candyman. Based the novel Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr. Hard to say what you’d make of it now, though…. An early reference to “snogging” becomes relevant later as the two kiss for the first time. Paperhouse (1988) Directed by Bernard Rose. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Considering the dark and strange places the film goes, it might be surprising to read that “Paperhouse” was adapted from a children’s novel. In the house, she meets Marc, a boy unable to walk. The story is good enough – it’s probably held up better than the movie. Yes! Anna falls ill and in her inflamed dreams the paper house becomes real and everything she draws comes true. The nightmare that follows delivers the kind of wordless horror that can only exist in the mind of a child, fixing for the viewer an unforgettable image of the angry paternal figure that lurks in the back rooms of the mind. Paperhouse is a film that I've seen several times now, and is a film that seems to have its status as an oddity upgraded each time I watch it. The adolescent mind can also be a scary place. In Paperhouse, an 11-year-old girl is home recovering from an illness when she draws a house which she soon starts visiting in her dreams. Well, what a strange little movie this was! Films with atmospheres that absolutely drown you, Top horror films of all-time as voted for by RYM, The Night of the Hunter , similar movies recommendations, Creepiest/eeriest moments in the history of film. Anna’s first venture into the dream world positively recalls "Christina's World," the famous painting by Andrew Wyeth. Those little things that made my miserable life much happier: Rue Morgue's 200 Alternative Horror Films You Need To See, Dreamlike / Nightmarish / Hallucinatory Films, Películas Clave Del Cine De Terror Moderno, "...And you call yourself a psychiatrist" - 25 films of '88, Rare and Hard to see Films that You Would Like to See in the Criterion Collection. Plot Summary: (via IMDB) Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. It was based on the 1958 novel Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr. I think we liked the same sort of things when we were younger. Being labelled a Horror film probably doesn’t help, nor does the 15 rating which is honestly far too strong for a film with no swearing and only one moment of very mild bloodshed – should the film be reissued I would expect it to receive a 12 rating. Hans Zimmer’s musical score is equal parts foreboding and enchanting, one of the divisive composer’s best soundtrack.
The romance develops naturally, as the two youths are initially somewhat critical of each other. You should check this one out in color! Hmmmm, will see some day. “Paperhouse” isn’t quite a surreal horror film and isn’t quite a children’s fantasy flick but a tantalizing combination of both. Paperhouse stays away from trying to explain it's more dreamy qualities and leaves most things to the viewers imagination. Paperhouse, Friday the 13th, The Entity, IT and Village of the Damned remake. . I was a little confused by the sudden turn of events having to do her father and am not sure what the meaning of that was meant to be. “Paperhouse” isn’t quite a surreal horror film and isn’t quite a children’s fantasy flick but a tantalizing combination of both. Likewise, don't respond to trollish comments; just report them and ignore them. In the house she finds a boy, Alec, who may also exist in the real world, and forms a strong romantic bond with him. I wouldn’t normally say this but they could perhaps do a good remake of this one.
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Weird! It’s just a bit “eerie” and slightly unsettling. He yells at all of us. Lol. As the story unfolded I was again and again impressed at just how powerful the film managed to be up to the … By the way – Thanks to everyone for all your wonderful comments on my blog this week! Change ). In the movie Paperhouse, our heroine Bwahaha.
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