Overview
A haunting tale of escape and betrayal unfolds within the walls of a sinister commune.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Graphic
- surreal
- unsettling
- nightmarish
- arthouse horror night
- experimental animation showcase
What critics said
Critics broadly regard the film as a formally astonishing, surreal, and deeply unsettling work whose inventive visuals intensify its disturbing historical subject matter.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Walls, furniture, bodies, and painted surfaces visibly transform throughout Maria's refuge in the sentient house.
The story refracts Colonia Dignidad's dictatorship, torture, and child abuse through a wolf fable and supernatural domestic space.
The house shelters Maria and her children while also changing shape and threatening to betray them.
Maria's escape with her children is shadowed by the colony's crimes against children and coercive belief system.
Films like The Wolf House, and why
The House
surreal stop-motion animation, oppressive authoritarian themes, and disturbing transformation imagery
My Love, Don't Cross That River
experimental adult animation, psychological unease, and starkly expressionistic visual design
Pan's Labyrinth
political trauma rendered through dark fantasy, child endangerment, and haunting atmosphere
Mad God
nightmarish animated storytelling, grotesque metamorphosis, and oppressive institutional power
Movie Details
- Directors
- Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña
- Release Date
- 2018-11-01
- Runtime
- 74 min
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 (202)
Cast
- Amalia Kassai
- Rainer Krause
- Karina Hyland
- Carlos Cociña
- Natalia Geisse
- Javiera Ramirez
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- fuboTV, Night Flight Plus, OVID, Fandor Amazon Channel, Darkroom, Eternal Family, Bloodstream
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Bloodstream
- Buy
- Amazon Video
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Wolf House about?
- A handmade nightmare transforms a Chilean cult’s historical violence into a mutable fairy tale of escape, captivity, and betrayal.
- What is The Wolf House like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Wolf House as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is The Wolf House violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in The Wolf House as graphic.
- What did critics think of The Wolf House?
- Critics broadly regard the film as a formally astonishing, surreal, and deeply unsettling work whose inventive visuals intensify its disturbing historical subject matter.
- Which films are like The Wolf House?
- Films with a similar feel include The House, My Love, Don't Cross That River, Pan's Labyrinth, and Mad God.
- How long is The Wolf House?
- The Wolf House runs 74 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Wolf House?
- In United States, The Wolf House streams on fuboTV, Night Flight Plus, OVID, Fandor Amazon Channel, Darkroom, Eternal Family, Bloodstream.
