The Wolf House

The Wolf House (2018)

La casa lobo

Once upon a time there was a country within a country from where nobody could escape.

After escaping from a religious colony in Chile, Maria seeks shelter in a mansion where she’s taken in by two pigs, its only inhabitants. Like in a stop-motion dream, the universe of the house reacts to her feelings. The animals slowly morph into humans and the house into a dark, menacing world.

Date of release
2018-11-01
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (210)
Runtime
1h 14m
Genres
Animation, Horror, Drama
Director
Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $245K
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

The Wolf House is a 2018 Chilean adult animated horror film directed by Cristobal León & Joaquín Cociña and written by León, Cociña and Alejandra Moffat. Inspired by the actual case of Colonia Dignidad, The Wolf House is presented as a fairy-tale themed animated propaganda film produced by the leader of the sect in order to indoctrinate its followers.

Production

The film received production support from several projects, including the Chile Fund for Film Project Development and the FONDART from the National Council of Culture and the Arts.

It took five years to develop the film in the workshop with animators independently. It incorporates both drawn and stop motion animation; the former is used in the for opening and closing scenes, while the rest of the film transforms various objects into different forms entirely such as clay, paint, papier-mâché, and puppets, similar to previous short films created by León and Cociña.

The film was shot in several studios and exhibitions at museums of different cities from Latin America and Europe including the Upstream Gallery in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany and the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile.

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