María seeking refuge in a mysterious house in south Chile after running away from a crazy german religious cult. There, she is welcomed by two pigs, the only two inhabitants of the place. As in a dream, the universe of the house reacts to María's feelings. The animals, slowly, morph into human beings as the house turns into a nightmarish world. Made in stop motion, and inspired by the happenings in the colonia Dignidad, a torture center within the Pinochet's regime, The Wolf House appears to be a cartoonish fairy tale that turns into a dark universe of gothic allusions and psychologic horror.
“The Wolf House explores the idea of house and family as something perverse and welcoming simultaneausly, a place where you always have to go back, but in which our deepest fears are born and hidden (. . .) What’s terrorific it’s not only the house itself, but rather the way in which the house and its inhabitants become more familiar to the humans that made them and observe them. On route to realism, the characters of The Wolf House turn into even more stranger, darker, and sinister beings. Even more so than ourselves.”
—Gonzalo de Pedro: Otros Cines España
“Each image of their visually stunning and horrifying (. . .)The film explores, in a visceral way, how one thing can morph into another in very fluid process, turning a dark corner at any moment.”
—Nina Siegal: The New York Times
“A journey to another realm of deepest fantasies (nightmares) that were conceptualized by a greater imagination.”
—Otros Cines
“A hypnotic excercise, where, ultimately, what is being discussed is the consistency of image in film.”
—El Mundo
“The Wolf House offers a disturbing experience.”
—The Hollywood Reporter
