“The House” is a stop motion animated collection of three short stories on Netflix. The movie is divided into three different stories, each with different plots and directors, all of which center around a perfect looking house.  

Divided into three parts, the first part revolves around a poor family who moves into a big and beautiful house only to be slowly trapped inside of it. 

As the movie continues, we see a contractor, who is a rat, giving his all to repair the house with a nasty bug outbreak. One couple seems interested in buying the house but things unravel for the worse after a bug spray mishap. 

The third and final part shows the house as an apartment building as the landlady, a cat, tries to fix the problems around the house and reaches a well-deserved realization. 

The film, which is supposed to be a dark comedy, did not meet my comedic expectations. It did have snippets of skin-crawling graphic insects, but the film seemed pretty average in terms of gore scenes. 

It was not unsettling but rather satiric considering the hidden messages the stories tried to paint. The house attracts the hopeless and offers a way out of the struggle in each plot. 

The music was also not as engaging as it could have been. The visuals and setting of characters throughout the movie are outstanding though, as it changes from cute felt characters and human sized rats to lifelike cats. 

What I loved about the movie was its animation style and attention to detail. I liked the voices and minimal dialogue of the characters.

The movie features the unique voices of famous artists like Mia Goth and Helena Bonham Carter which grabs your attention immediately. 

I also enjoyed that it was split into three parts because they were somehow connected to each other, yet they managed to stand out on their own. 

The movie goes on to be less intimidating and unsettling as it moves toward its end. 

What kept me hooked on was not the unsettling plot, but rather the superb animation which makes you forget that it’s a stop-action animated film.