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The Wolf House (2018) | dir. Cristobal León, Joaquín Cociña

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Horror Movie of the day: The Wolf House (La Casa Lobo, 2018)

Once upon a time in a Colony in the mountains of Chile, there was a beautiful young girl called Maria who spent her time daydreaming and playing with the animals instead of working. One day, she freed three pigs from the stalls in an act of dissobedience, for which she was expected to spend one hundred days in solitude. Not liking the punishment put upon her, she ran away in the middle of the night. Finding refuge in a small hut in the woods, she finds two little pigs she chooses to care for.

While hiding from the wolf lurking outside, she will learn a lesson about hardships and obedience.

The historical context on which this movie was based on is already disturbing enough: Augusto Pinochet's regime in Chile was calvacade of humanitarian atrocities, the nazi German immigrant colony known as Colonia Dignidad being responsible of some of the most repulsive. But the specific way this movie depicts the subject matter is truly haunting; framed as a propaganda piece from the cult itself about escapees, it shows the story through the eyes of madness in a crude, home made, poorly masked fairy tale of unusually uncomfortable visuals by an unreliable narrator. When praising a movie the term “unique” is thrown around like candy, but there's really no other word to describe this film's approach to stop motion animation. It's deliberately unreal, making even the most mundane scenes look uncanny and profoundly unsettling, as if a twisted reality was forming in front of your eyes every second in a never ending continous take. The sound design doesn't fall behind either, a mixture of rather distorted voice overs, a textured foley and a low pitched cacophony that crawls into your inner ear. Equal parts hypnotic and horrifying, it's experimental visuals and symbolism manage to hit the place where the primal and the cerebral meet, so no matter how you approach it, it WILL get under your skin.