Year: 2018
Directors: Cristobal León and Joaquín Cociña
Screenplay: Cristobal León, Joaquín Cociña and Alejandra Moffat
Starring (voices): Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause
Running Time: 75 minutes
Genre: Animation, horror, fantasy
Maria, a young girl in an isolated German commune in Chile, escapes into the forest where she finds a strange house. Inside the house she discovers two pigs who slowly become human, and she raises them as her children. Meanwhile the house itself seems to change to reflect Maria's emotional state.
This Chilean film is a strange stop-motion animation, which has it's inspirations in fairy tales, urban legends and the real-life Colonial Dignidad cult. The film opens with a brief live action introduction, presenting the film as a production made by the cult to introduce it to new or potential recruits. The Wolf House is the first feature length project by animators Cristobal León and Joaquín Cociña, who had previously made some well-received short films, including a music video for the rock band The Smile, an off-shoot of Radiohead. The film is genuinely surreal and deeply disturbing. It feels genuinely nightmarish and has something of the feel of legendary Czech animator Jan Švankmajer. However, it is very much it's own thing, and is definitely recommended to horror and fantasy fans.
The Wolf House
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