Quartile rating: 7.5/10 · 1 rating
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.
The House is a striking stop-motion anthology that earns its distinctiveness through its singular visual identity and genuinely unsettling tonal shifts across its three vignettes. The stop-motion cinematography is exceptional — each segment has a carefully crafted, claustrophobic aesthetic that amplifies the dread and dark comedy in equal measure. Novelty is very high: the anthology structure, the surreal horror-comedy blend, and the thematic cohesion around a single house across eras feel genuinely one-of-a-kind. Plot and acting are solid if uneven — the first segment is the strongest narratively, while the third feels somewhat meandering, and the voice performances serve the material without standing out dramatically. The ending is tonally appropriate but somewhat ambiguous in a way that feels slightly undercooked rather than deliberately resonant.