what movie is the closest thing to house of leaves ?

myhouse.wad

Would it ever be possible to read this on a kindle?
I read comments that it's impossible but I'm too cheap to buy a hardback and just rather torrent it.

1408.

>>213288555
yep

>>213288527 (OP)
Blair Witch kinda

>>213288527 (OP)
Give me a summary of this thing uh this… buh buh b-b-book. So I don’t have to read it. Thank you.

>>213288699
I prefer 1488

>>213288675
borrow it from the library

>>213288675
nigger the paperback is 15 bucks

>>213288736
guy keeps going into a maze of hallways that appear in his house, records it and some other people die doing it then he stops
and some other guy keeps going schizo talking about the case

Any movie with cringe-ass writing

>>213288675
>Would it ever be possible to read this on a kindle?

No.

>>213288675
I'm reading it right now so it is possible. The book's gay tho

>>213288780
no

>>213288759
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyxEDSnegTU

>>213288736
Guy goes crazy editing a madman's essay on a horror movie that does not exist. The movie is about a family in a house that is bigger on the inside than on the outside. The hidden twist is the guy and the essay don't actually exist either and the whole thing was written by the madman who was depressed that he never had a son.

>>213288527 (OP)
Experimental movies that nobody here watches.
A Field in England perhaps.

A true equivalent would look more like an assembly of found footage and stock interviews but half the material is irrelevant build up. There’s no overarching narrative and it can’t be shot as a movie. Just a folder of 100 files to be played out of sequence.

>>213288736
idk i ragequit after page 4

>>213288555
This unironically.

>>213288675
>possible to read this on a kindle?
Impossible. Defeats the purpose. The book is intended for you to flip the pages, make annotations, turn the book around and over, get tired from going back and forth between different pages, even the sound of turning the pages when Johnny Truant is thinks he is hearing the monster or when Halloway shoots the walls making a hole on the pages of the book have an impact while reading. It would be like watching a 10 min essay summary of Synecdoche New York and hoping to get the same impact. You will get the story, sure, but the story is pretty simple, it's about the experience you share with the characters of the book itself. Even when not reading, having the hard copy looking at you from your bookshelf makes you feel unease, at least it happened for me when I obsessed over it for a month.

>>213288699
2nd good option

>>213288736
It's 4 stories told in parallel. The story of a photographer whose house gets impossibly huge on the inside while remaining small on the outside and the decline of his family and love life as he obsesses over the house mystery. This is documented on film and retold on the 2nd story of Zampano, an old blind man who investigated the tapes and wrote notebooks trying to understand what happened until he died under mysterious circumstances. The third story follows Johnny Truant who finds the Zampano's notes and tries to rebuild what happened in the tapes from text as a way to cope with the loss of his mother and his empty life. The fourth story is yourself reading the book and how different scholars, academics and real life or fake people interpret the entire book and their discussion about it written in footnotes and showing the impact of the book, the film and the lives of Johnny, Zampano, Navidson in real life or not.

>>213288807
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>>213289903
this sounds fucking stupid?

>>213289983
This is not for you then.

>>213289983
Yeah the book is a lot more style than substance. You also have to remember that the book was written 25 years ago before being meta was cool.

>>213289992
or its just not that clever or well written
it sounds made up as it went along and pointless

>>213290028
Ok.

>>213290026
>You also have to remember that the book was written 25 years ago before being meta was cool.
being meta was only cool back then because it wasnt reddit yet

>>213288555
Damn this looks kino from the premise
Thanks anon

>>213290028
Explaining the plot really ruins it because the fun comes from trying to piece it all together.

>>213290099
yeah but if you explain it and it falls apart it was just a jj abrams mystery box tease

>>213290129
But that's also kind of the point because the characters in the book also realize that it doesn't matter and there's a message about family and the dangers of obsession. House of Leaves is overrated and pretentious but its still a good book that you have to experience for yourself to truly understand.

>>213290215
ok thank you anon

this looks very gimmicky

>>213290453
Don't read it then.

>>213290453
Gimmicks can be fun. The genre is called ergodic literature and I really enjoyed how the A Series of Unfortunate Events series had bits of it when I was a kid.

>>213289983
It is stupid as fuck. I remember when faggots on here and Something Awful were soifacing over this shit and acting like it was the scariest thing ever put to paper.
>omg le house is bigger on the inside than the outside!!!
>help me niggerman i'm going insaaaaaane!!!

>>213288527 (OP)
I started reading this but when does it get as good and crazy as people say? I'm only a few chapters in but so far it's been 10% story and 90% meaningless run-on rambling

>>213290453
People talk shit about gimmicks too much, as though we're all so enlightened as to be above simple tricks. If a gimmick is entertaining, who cares

>>213290669
It never gets "scary" the horror that people talk about comes from realizing that you are becoming obsessed with findinf the answer to the book like Johnny Truant, Navidson and Zamapano did.

>>213288555
I feel like everyone glosses over the true horror of that game. This game file is cursed and warps reality right? That means the guy who published it was cursed into become the fag’s husband and having his prior life overwritten.

>>213290453
The brainlet author was a one trick pony and none of his other books with typesetting gimmicks sold worth a shit.

>>213288527 (OP)
In terms of plot overlap - pic related (it's not great).
In terms of themes and aesthetics, the epilogie of 'The house that Jack built' comes to mind.

There isn't really anything quite like it and it's a good thing they didn't try to adapt it. Aronofsky in his prime could have maybe pulled it off. Eggers wouldn't do a bad job, but the material probably doesn't have enough homolust for his taste.

>>213291446
God dammit.

>>213288527 (OP)
Inception nigga cmon

>>213288527 (OP)
German show Dark or unironically the first season of Stranger Things.

Both are more scifi oriented and mostly about kids/teenagers but still, there are similar themes. Not really the outright unsettling, bizarre shit from the book but its something.

>>213288527 (OP)
Rebecca Hall KINO coming thru

>>213290453
Why is he calling Eraser starring Schwarzenegger a comedy???

>>213293216
good movie I should rewatch it

>>213288527 (OP)
I’m 120 pages into this book. Does it ever get crazy or is it just le house exploration found footage + Johnny truant fucking 10/10s?

>>213294363
the ending gets pretty bizarre

>>213294405
>bro it’s like YOU’RE Navidson, bro….*smokes joint*

>>213288527 (OP)
I dunno, there's tons of Jewish nepobaby movies. Just pick one.

>>213289983
also the book is printed upside down and round the edges of the page, or just two words a page, and you have to jump back and forth to follow footnotes etc

cast it

>Adam Sandler as Navidson
>Jack Black as Tom
>Zendaya as Karen
>Kevin Hart as Billy
>Willem Dafoe as Zampano
>The Rock as Holloway
>Ryan Gosling as Truant

>>213294725
If you have to resort to tricks like that, maybe your story isn't very compelling.

>>213294725
I'm just gonna download the epub and then rate it 1/5 on goodreads for being a gimmicky shit.

>>213295071
Get a load of this lmao. This is some Terryology 1 x 1 = 2 shit
>Danielewski has described his style as:
>Signiconic = sign + icon. Rather than engage those textual faculties of the mind remediating the pictorial or those visual faculties remediating language, the signiconic simultaneously engages both in order to lessen the significance of both and therefore achieve a third perception no longer dependent on sign and image for remediating a world in which the mind plays no part."

>>213294725
>>213295071
His book right after House of Leaves was another dumb gimmicky bullshit thing where half of it was written upside down or backwards or something like that. It got shit on and he basically vanished.

>>213288527 (OP)
>A book about a book about a book about a fictional documentary movie
>Reads like a noir about a bohemian dude in the 90s
This is the most masturbatory book I've ever read but it's surprisingly not bad probably because it's my first time encountering these stylistic gimmicks

>>213295102
It works without the gimmick too I listened to the audiobook as well. It's just less meta that way.

Dude, just read the King in Yellow instead and get the same effect.

>>213288527 (OP)
The Night House had some great scenes.

>>213288527 (OP)
Probably "This House Has People in It"

>>213294897
Navidson is a chad. Chris hemsworth.
Karen should be Dakota Johnson.
Johnny truant can be Johnny depp

>>213296792
Forgot pic

>>213288675
Yes, but it's probably a pain in the ass.

>>213288555
dogshit wad for tourists

>>213288527 (OP)
Definitely picrel, although it's either a hit or miss. For me it was very personal because I have a phobia to darkness.

>>213289903
>The fourth story is yourself
fucking cringe

>>213297108
same I still sleep with the light on but love getting scared by movies

>>213288527 (OP)
Les documents interdits 1989 - The Ferguson Case

>>213290453
It is kinda gimmicy, but it doesn't matter.
Just read the book, and instead of ignoring the weird typeset, be aware of it, think about it as you're reading
Trust me, if you just let the book do what it's trying to do and stop trying to meta-meta analyze it, it's an incredible read.

This sounds like Pale Fire for people that go to Hot Topic.

>>213291466
This is the only movie actually (legally got around it by being "JUST" different enough) based on the book. You could say in spirit only. Because the fag author won't sell the rights like a moron, while he's barely scraping by selling some "the green mile" novella series with 10 pages per book and doing stupid collabs with his sister musician. It's a good enough movie but like any movie in pales in comparison to the book. In this case, while being a good movie, it's 1/100th of what the book is (if you skip all the drug addict and mom nonsense and just read the Navidson Report).

>>213289983
This is why you only read The Navidson Report, which is 10/10 next level shit

>ctrl + f
>no pic related

the plot is exactly the same, and the fact that there's no gimmick to distract you makes it well, better

>>213291466
>>213298456
i'm actually retarded

>>213290641
you also have to remember this book came out before the backrooms and limslop

I would say that this is pretty similar to The Navidson Record plot-wise, specifically, as opposed to House of Leaves more broadly. I think there are a couple story-within-a-story-within-a-story-within-a-story movies, though the only one that comes to mind is The Grand Budapest Hotel in which this is just played as a joke at the beginning and ending since the outer layers are otherwise irrelevant.

>>213293216
Great, great movie.

>>213288527 (OP)
Not a movie. But maybe Netflix's Archive 81.

>>213299498
The structure of House of Leaves makes it hard to find a good film comparison since a visual medium adaptation of the book would be something along the lines of a psychotic alcoholic Youtuber commenting over a half finished documentary about the Navidson record that includes excerpts of the film produced by a madman who started censoring his own documentary before he died. Also said Youtuber has a second channel where he reads letters his mother wrote him from an asylum.

>>213300590
sounds like reddit would love it

>>213301138
it's really popular among redditors and women for whatever reason.

>>213298244
yeah, I wish the whole book was just an extended Navidson Report...

>>213290453
It is very gimmicky. I would have appreciated it more if it was better integrated into the story and used sparingly, but it is mostly done to say "Look what I can do!", with only a couple exceptions.

Did anyone else find Johnny Truant to be so obnoxious that they couldn't finish the book? I keep telling myself to try and get back into it but I lose motivation halfway through each excruciating rant about fucking hookers and doing drugs or whatever

>>213288527 (OP)
>The house that never left
You can thank me later

>>213301900
I like the approach to a unreliable narrator who's mental struggle is the spirit of the book. But, God, he is executed so poorly. Pale Fire does it way better.

>>213301159
Because it has the appearance of depth without any actual substance.

>>213297090
>I Like to Play Contrarian: The Post

>>213288675
No because a lot of what makes the book interesting is the odd formatting of pages.

>>213288527 (OP)
What I really did not like about this book is how often it jumps to one of the narrator's stupid fucking diary entries about fucking homely women and letting them put fingers in his asshole. Whenever a Johnny section came up I skipped until I didn't see women anymore.

>>213302483
no i'm just an actual doom wad lover and have been for ages. myhouse is for tourists, much like hdoom.

The Night House has a lot of Navidson Record vibes to it.
But House of Leaves is a lot more than just the Navidson Record.
It's multiple narrators deep about a fictional documentary and layers in real life shit to make it more credible.
Butterfly Kisses has elements of that. It's a fake documentary about a fake documentary directed by a guy who might have died IRL and has a lot of interviews with real people.

That Kevin bacon recent horror film started out using the same premise but didn't make the landing. It is no stir of echoes.

>>213288527 (OP)
I loved the book but its overrated. The Navidson Record is amazing but the Johnny stuff is sometimes decent but most of the times really bad.

The singer poe is his sister and has a great album that is supposed to be listened together with the book. One of the songs has mark reading lines from the book. You would know of poe because it is the credit song on stir of echoes titled hello.

>>213301900
this but honestly, also the navidson record

i rarely see anyone pick apart zampano's shtick as much as they do with truant's exploits, but it's kinda just as annoying - you *know* you're reading the same dude cosplaying as an edgelord, then an old guy

>>213304310
The story about the schizo woman and the dog is cool. I also like the mother's letters.

>>213289903
4th step ruins it

>>213291466
>directed by David Koepp 5 years after Mordecai fiasco
>No others films set for him to direct
>All his new screenplays are shit
RIP

>>213305865
I didn't have the resources to decode the letters because I read much of it on a plane, but looking it up later, that one message was just brutal. I can't imagine slowly decoding a secret message from my infirm mom only to see that appear letter by letter.

I hate this film but hey if you like it, you like it, not my problem

>>213297502
What's Lolita for people that go to Hot Topic?

>>213288555
He said movie fag

>>213288527 (OP)
MZD’s sister is the singer Poe. She has an album, Haunted, that is a companion to House of Leaves.

>>213288527 (OP)
>Upstream Color
>The Hours

>>213290453
Found Footage, the Novel. Mogged David Foster Wallace and Infinite Jest into oblivion in popular genre fiction.

>>213289983
it is
its a gimmick that runs thin really fast
its not really well written either so unless you really get a huge kick out of the gimmick and dont get tired of it theres really nothing to the book

>>213288527 (OP)
i've never read the book nor watched the film but my guess is synecdoche new york because they both seem like pretentious junk