David Lynch Fans Will Absolutely Love This Ari Aster-Approved Dark Fantasy Animation With 96% on RT

In the last decade, surrealist aesthetics have brought us multiple outstanding genre outings, both in live-action and animation formats. A notable example of the latter is The Wolf House—one of the most impressive and creative debut features of recent years. It has received high praise from several prominent contemporary filmmakers, such as Ari Aster, who admitted to feeling so strongly about this 2018 surreal animated film by the Chilean duo, Cristobal León and Joaquín Cociña, that he contacted them and became the executive producer of their short film, The Bones. Having based The Wolf House on the facts of one of the darkest chapters in Chile's history — Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, León and Cociña chose a unique visual language to tell this grim story. Combining hand-drawn and stop-motion animation, as well as brief live-action sequences, they gradually turn a darker version of the familiar Three Little Pigs tale into a truly disturbing surrealist feast, comparable to the experimental works of David Lynch or the vividly grotesque animation style of Jan Švankmajer.