2022 · animation · drama · comedy
The House
Directed by Paloma Baeza1h 37m2022
Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.
Our read: The House (2022) reads as a neutral, kinetic, surreal animation · drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured animation / drama, surreal in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- brisk
- intense
- surreal
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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How The House feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want handcrafted stop-motion dread, class satire, and surreal household unease.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if unsettling puppet horror and bleak capitalism will sour your night.
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