La Casa Lobo (Joaquin Cocina & Cristobal Leon, 2018)
An intensely disturbing fairytale, sort of a crossover between Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood, with hints of Snow White too, but all of the dark, grim(m), "what the hell were people telling their children in the 18th century" parts. The story of the Colonia Dignidad (which was already the subject of a pretty middling Emma Watson/Daniel Brühl film a few years ago) is troubling enough on its own of course, but this is something else entirely. The way stop motion is used to mess with our sense of reality, especially that confusion between 2D and 3D spaces (people forming in the walls)... even a banal story would seem messed up when told in that way.
So this is quite a unique experience, but I'm not sure entirely what to make of it. Curious to see if other films will use this style... or indeed if they have, it seems that Jan Svankmajer is brought up as a comparison to this, I should probably take a look at that.
7/10