The House(2022)
2022 · Paloma Baeza & Emma De Swaef & Niki Lindroth von Bahr & Marc James Roels · 97 min
Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.
Animation · Drama · Comedy · Horror · Fantasy
7.01.2k votes
TMDB score
2/5
Intensity
0/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How The House scares
Three separate stories unfold across different time periods, each one slower and stranger than the last, with the mood shifting from sad and eerie to almost nightmarish before settling into something quietly melancholy. Nothing here jumps out at you; instead the unease comes from strange stop-motion visuals, odd characters, and a growing sense that something is wrong with the house itself. It's more sad and unsettling than outright scary, the kind of dread that sits in your chest rather than makes you jump. This is best for people who like weird, dreamlike animation and don't need blood or scares to feel unsettled.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, The House rates psychological 4/5, visceral 1/5, gore 0/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 2/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 1 of 5
- Gore: 0 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 2 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 10 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 30 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 60 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
An eerie, dreamlike unease that ebbs and flows across three connected stories rather than building to one big climax.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 2.
How scary is The House?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, The House rates 2/5 — moderately scary, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. The fear is mostly in your head — it unsettles far more than it assaults. Expect it to be restrained with gore and genuinely disturbing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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