Alex Weller’s Reviews > House of Leaves > Status Update

Karen Green used to be an extroverted, excited tomboy when she was a kid. But when she turned fifteen, she became an introverted quiet girl. It's believed her claustrophobia was caused by childhood isolation. She went through studies and several different types of medication that all failed. Her background was left out of the movie because Navidson was too anxious to portray it properly. Damn.

Yet another anomaly appears in the house. A strange hallway, the one from Navidson's first short, appears in the living room. The two children enter it, and Navidson runs to get them out. Karen, however, cannot enter, and neither can Navidson's camera. Odd.

After Tom leaves, Karen once again refuses to acknowledge the anomaly, while Navidson wants to publicize it. Regardless, neither one wants the children inside the house. Thankfully, the children are too busy playing outside.

By June, the enigma is still unexplainable and unsolved. Tom, however, needs to go home. He bids goodbye to his brother and his family before Reston gives him a ride home. It becomes clear that Navidson loves his brother very much. Good for him.

Just started reading a chapter in between Chapters 5 and 6. Billy Reston arrives at the Navidson House and, after making his way up the stairs by dragging his ass up by the railing, he confirms the house's enigma for himself. Bizarre, huh?

Finished Chapter 5! Johnny reflects on how odd it is that he's still infatuated with Thumper after four months, despite her being a stripper who's older than him. He just loves her outlook on life and projected everything about her onto the girl he fucked that night, who then left him all alone. I guess his thoughts of Thumper were an echo that gave him sexual pleasure. Overall, this chapter was confusing.

Johnny goes on about how the girl regularly stops at the tattoo parlor now and drives him nuts to the point where he always goes off on an imaginary emotional tangent every time he thinks about her. Good to know, Johnny.

Johnny begins the story. He was at that restaurant and shared his drawings with his boss, who was not impressed. Johnny got so angry that he imagined ripping his boss's head off. While he was distracted, the girl appeared out of nowhere and Johnny instantly became interested in her and forgot about his boss. Interesting!

As Zampanò finishes his analysis, Johnny feels there is something more at work and believes that the writings are beginning to make sense. But as he contemplates it, Lude disrupts everything by coming over and partaking in drugs and mushrooms with Johnny, which leads him to a party where he has an affair with a girl who reminds him of another girl he met at a restaurant he was at with his boss.

Zampanò keeps going on about echoes, the measurements for acoustics, how temperature and surface can affect shit, and just shit that I don't fully understand. Okay.