10 More Horror Movies Way Weirder Than Advertised

Despite being advertised as a horror up-front, the trailer and Netflix clips had most of us believe The House would be a twee, Wes Anderson-esque stop-motion animation with a slightly spooky tone. Not so.

With a quartet of directors (duo Emma de Swaef and Marc James Roels, with Niki Lindroth von Bahr and Paloma Baeza) lending each segment their own unique style, the film is a tri-pronged anthology movie, dancing in turns between serene dioramas and icky nightmare fuel set in felt and wool.

The first segment features a bulbous-headed Edwardian family who moves into a fancy modern house before it turns on them; the second features a property developer and anthropomorphic rat who has a sinister infestation of fur beetles and larvae; and the third centres on a make-shift family of anthropomorphic cats in a post-apocalyptic future.

Far from the scattershot approach of The ABCs of Death (2012), The House manages a consistent aesthetic between three stories that, while they don't necessarily dovetail, feel comfortable presented alongside each other - and are joined by the titular theme.

Each segment has its own branch of horror to explore, whether gothic, visceral or just plain surreal, and a voice cast to match, with the likes of Helena Bonham Carter offering some serious horror credibility. It's kooky, it's weird and it's not something to watch while eating.