The House is the sort of movie you hope to find hiding among the piles and piles of garbage on Netflix. And then you do, and it’s … pure magic. Everything about this stop-motion animated triptych of stories tied around the same house is pitch perfect.
From the meticulous animation that mind-boggles with its creative choices and precision to strange, terrifying, and even hopeful script of each tale, this movie is spellbinding. Macabre, gothic, trippy tones dominate throughout despite a rather uplifting ending. What’s more, as horror, it really works. It’s genuinely disturbing! The opening story of a young girl whose family moves into a strange, ever-changing house built by a mysterious architect is a claustrophobic wonder of a nightmare. The middle story of a home flix-and-flip gone to Hell is skin-crawlingly, viscerally upsetting terror. And the final story as if to make up for it all is a rather lovely melancholy tale of finding a balance between holding on and letting go. The fact that the first story features people and the other two animals doesn’t even faze. It all somehow just works. Right down to a custom-made and absolutely perfect closing song performed by a multi-talented artist who also provides one of the lead voices for the movie. The song goes something like, "This house. I don't know what this house is." And that's exactly right. It's different for everyone, and that's the beauty (and the horror) of it. What makes a house a home? Do you dare find out? This is likely much too weird to become a classic, but it really ought to be. Watch this. Wath this right now. Well, wait until dark and then …
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