Jeff W
One of the most diabolically twisted, beautifully stunning pieces of animation you'll ever see. A massive achievement that took two men and a small crew five years to create. Don't worry about trying to follow the narrative, just let the cascade of mind-altering visuals amaze you. This is fluffing brilliant.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
10/16/23
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Patryk G
Wonderful but mostly incomprehensible.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
03/07/23
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Audience Member
The stop-motion animation in The Wolf House is unlike anything I have ever seen before. It's surreal, absurd, and dark. The images crawl, skitter, climb, and fall apart on the walls and floorboards of the house, a refuge for our POV protag, Maria (Amalia Kassai). The sounds of the animation, mixed with the ASMR sounds they make, are truly an aesthetically pleasing experience. However, the story was difficult to follow — this could be because the film is mostly in Spanish with some German, which means unless you understand those languages, you'll need to read subtitles. Your eyes will not want to pull away from the animation. You'll probably want to review the history that the film draws inspiration from, and after doing so, you may see it in an entirely different light (or lack thereof). Although the film was only 75 minutes, it felt too long. The Wolf House is a must-watch if you're interested in an uncommon animation style, but since these reviews are cumulative, it doesn't make it into the (90)+ area. *Side Note* We tend to focus on the Nazis fleeing to Argentina, Brazil, and even Paraguay, but golly gee they were in Chile, too!
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
02/01/23
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Late R
Going into this having not heard a thing about it, I was not expecting an Art-house film that uses stop-motion with paper mache, cardboard, tape and paints as the primary materials. The crude-looking visuals certainly contribute a great deal to making ‘The Wolf House' very unsettling and creepy, but what really does it is the way they're used to tell a fairy tale-like story -- complete with allegories, a languid pace and narrators using soothing voices, as if speaking to children – that deals heavily with Nazi teachings/brainwashing. The combination is jarring and it creates a lot of uneasiness that increases as the film goes on, culminating in a particularly disturbing ending.
This obviously isn't the type of film to do well at the box office and it probably won't be for everyone, but this surreal experience with impressive visuals (massive kudos to the Art Director and artists) will stick with you, one way or another.
Rated 4/5 Stars •
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
06/01/21
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The stop motion animation in this film is phenomenal. The attention to detail, the painstaking work involved in bringing this to life must be commended. It brings to mind such key figures in such filmmaking as Svankmajer and Bickford.
However, the story line and its connection to the utterly heinous, despicable, unthinkable atrocities of the colony of nazis and other subhumans is terribly thin. I found myself again and again forcing inference where there was no clear connection via symbolism or general use of images. Therefore, it is often quite tedious, imo. I found to difficult to stay attentive despite the brilliant animation. Also, how many times can you say 'it's time to eat your food'/'eat your food'?
3 stars for the animation, but .2 for the rest. 3.2 stars
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/26/23
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I cannot begin to comprehend exactly how this movie was made and the inhuman amount of work that was there (together with overflowing creativity) to get this unique, quite flawless result.
The Chilean animation is not only one of the most terrifying films I've ever seen (with zero jump scares), but a true work of art, employing fascinating visual techniques to tell a truly disturbing story inspired from real events and taking the form of an anecdote for children, slightly resembling the Three Little Pigs story.
León and Cociña's eerie shots together with the superb narration of Amalia Kassai and Rainer Krausse make up for a haunting experience reeking of existential dread, invoking some primal fear in all of us.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/17/23
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