The Wolf House is pure genre, but also, a disturbing, chilling, and intricate work of art that's different from anything else done in this century... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 8, 2023

in The Wolf House the volumetric and the pictorial are governed more by emotional, magical or shamanic rules than merely coincident. Their interrelation is more expressive than geometric or conceptual.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 30, 2022

An artisanal animation with a strange and fascinating beauty in its twisted visual and oral narration. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2022

It is a film in the vein of visionaries or even illusionists, part of a lineage that can be traced back to the Mélièsian origins of cinematographic art.

| Jun 5, 2021

Had I gone into this film mentally prepared for this nightmarish depiction of a doomed existence of betrayal and abuse, it would not have been so bad, but I think it would still be a downer.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 22, 2021

Endlessly inventive, La Casa Lobo is one of those animations for adults- dark and gloomy, pointy in its politics and mesmerizing in its craft. One of the year's best.

| Feb 12, 2021

There's gnarly, unnerving texture to everything in this unhinged film, which fragments and reforms like a nightmare born from the darkest recesses of the mind.

| Jan 27, 2021

A psychological thriller of the most harrowing kind.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 22, 2021

An astonishingly detailed, lovingly assembled piece of work which confronts one of the darkest episodes in Chile's troubled history, this is a film you will never forget.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 16, 2021

An astonishing, profoundly disturbing debut feature: One part early David Lynch short, one part Bruce Bickford stop-motion film, and one part crypto-Nazi ayahuasca nightmare.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 22, 2020

After a mockumentary opening, the main body of the film uses a variety of 2D and 3D animation styles, who jointly create a dreamlike world in which everything seems mutable and nothing seems certain.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 18, 2020

A fascinatingly nightmarish depiction of María's psychology as PTSD crushes her hope and Stockholm syndrome erases her capacity to [differentiate] friend [from] foe.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 14, 2020

Earns high marks just on the strength of its restless images -- sometimes the movie seems dissatisfied with itself, always in motion, always shape-shifting. But a little of that can go an awfully long way.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 7, 2020

[T]his often-incoherent movie ... has striking visuals but lacks a well-written storyline ... Ultimately, the movie's concept needed to better articulated in its writing, and The Wolf House probably would have been better off as a short film.

| Jul 18, 2020

The Wolf House is thick with layered references to Chile's repression under Pinochet, but it's not necessary to understand any of them to get the full brunt of its terrifying, intricately animated imagery.

| Jun 18, 2020

Art as cinema is a surreal experience. This beautiful movie will constantly amaze audiences with its beauty while it also frustrates them.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 18, 2020

It's the Disney's Golden Age enchantment by way of horror master Wes Craven, done with resourceful virtuosity...

| Jun 18, 2020

Joaquín Cociña y Cristóbal León turn an adult story into an effective children's fable via experimental animation of the highest order. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 11, 2020

The Wolf House foregrounds the arts' role in creating space to acknowledge widespread trauma, even if those spaces are unnerving and bleak.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jun 5, 2020

... like those dreams that take you into unknown places: "wonder" with a touch of fear, enough to stir your blood, but not curl it.

| Original Score: A | Jun 5, 2020