CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Ploydsge just watch it!

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Leofwine_draca PAPERHOUSE is an immersive and interesting British horror/fantasy film of the 1980s that has enjoyed some measure of cult success since it was first released nearly 20 years ago. It's certainly an oddball movie, low budget and rather slow-paced, but my advice is to stick with it because it's a journey that does pay off. This is an imaginative tale about a girl who goes on a psychological journey into a make-believe world with some very odd characteristics.It's one of those films which would be spoilt by saying too much about it. The main thing I can say is that this is classic British 'weird' - a genre with a fine literary tradition - and the titular construction is very well realised and memorable. The young cast give naturalistic performances, backed up by old-timers like Ben Cross, and the spooky atmosphere is second to none.

TheBlueHairedLawyer London resident Anna is a preteen girl with a very boring life. She goes to a strict school every day, has very few friends and thinks she's a little old for daydreaming... but when she starts fainting in school she dreams of a lonely little boy her age trapped in the very world she doodled on her notebook in class! She gets sick and, bedridden, has all the time she wants to dream. She's happy to have a new best friend, although her and Marc's relationship starts off badly. They quickly become inseparable, and when she's awake she draws new items for him so he won't get bored.One day she overhears her nurse talking about another patient, who has the same name and description as Marc from Anna's dream world. In the real world he's slowly dying, and Anna plots to rescue him by drawing her estranged father to rescue him... the problem is she draws her father the way he used to be, a confused drunk blinded by booze and unable to reason, so now her dream world has a monster within it. When Marc passes away all of a sudden, Anna is heartbroken... can she ever learn to dream again? Paperhouse is a breathtaking, suspenseful and depressing story, with a boring little girl in a boring world who discovers a talent that gives her a greater purpose in life, the power to connect with the souls of dying people and help them. It was based on a book, the young adult novel Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr. Sadly Elliott Spiers, who played Marc's role, died in 1994 thanks to medication side-effects. Paperhouse has amazing soundtrack, memorable acting and surreal yet strangely beautiful scenery.There is one con; the plot itself is highly similar to the Jodie Foster movie Echoes of a Summer (1976), Never Let Me Go (2010), and the two fiction novels No Place for Eco-Sinners and Coraline. Paperhouse can also drag on in some parts, after all, the main character is bedridden much of the time.Still, Paperhouse deserves a much higher rating than what it has now. Unlike Never Let Me Go (2010), where the main characters grow up with a planned death of forced organ donation, Paperhouse isn't so depressing. It offers hope even after Marc's death, that perhaps he's in a better place, still always protecting Anna. I'm honestly very glad it hasn't been remade because I think it's an excellent film just as it is.Check out Paperhouse, once you get into it, it's a thought-provoking and adventurous, imaginative story.

Superunknovvn "Paperhouse" is a bit of a lost classic. It comes from a time when movies dared to be original and edgy. When characters didn't have to be black and white, when even your lead actress didn't necessarily have to be a person that it's very easy to identify with.From what I'm told the story is based on a children's book. This movie, however, is clearly for adults. Though not full on horror, "Paperhouse" is too dark and scary for children. Director Bernard Rose clearly made the movie on a shoe string budget, but still manages to create an atmosphere of constant unease.One time movie actress Charlotte Burke plays her role convincingly as does the rest of the cast (though Glenne Headly's overdubbed English accent sounds awkward and out of place). The real highlight, however, are the eerie score and the beautiful cinematography, sometimes reminiscent of a less colourful Dario Argento movie.In the end, "Paperhouse" is plodding on a bit and from today's perspective some scenes seem dragged out. Still, it's a movie well-worth checking out that deserves much more recognition than it ever got.

ccthemovieman-1 This was a disappointing horror film about a snotty young girl and her nightmares. For a horror or "thriller" film and hype, it's way too tame. There are only a few tense moments in here, not anywhere as near as many as should have been for a film of this genre. Even those "tense" scenes weren't much. The music made them more dramatic that they actually were.There is a lot of symbolism in here, so the elitist critics label this "a thinking person's horror film." Well, if they think about it, I'm sure they will come to the same conclusion I did - a waste of money at the video rental store.Summary: a yawner that offers an unlikeable lead character and generally poor acting. Vastly overrated and certainly not what it is advertised.