One house, three eras, and a rotating cast of unhappy occupants form the spine of The House, a 2022 British stop-motion anthology that treats a single address as a character in its own right.
What is The House about?
Across the film's three segments, a poor family, an anxious property developer, and a landlady who has simply had enough each find their fates tangled up with the same mysterious building. The stories don't share characters so much as they share a location and a mood, letting each director bring a distinct tone to the same set of walls before handing off to the next era. It plays less like three unrelated shorts stitched together and more like variations on a theme, with the house itself acting as the constant against which every occupant's anxieties, ambitions, and disappointments get measured.
About the cast
The voice cast spans Matthew Goode, Helena Bonham Carter, Claudie Blakley, Paul Kaye, Miranda Richardson, Mia Goth, Will Sharpe, and Susan Wokoma, a lineup drawn largely from British film and television. With three separate segments and three different directors, the voice work carries a heavier load than in a conventional animated feature, since the stop-motion character design stays deliberately unsettling rather than warm, leaving tone and performance to do much of the storytelling.
Context & significance
Directed by Paloma Baeza, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, and Emma De Swaef, The House was produced in the United Kingdom and released in 2022 as a stop-motion anthology aimed squarely at adult audiences rather than children, despite the medium's family associations. The dark-comedy label undersells how unsettling the visual style gets at points, and the anthology structure lets the film explore anxiety about property, debt, and belonging from three angles without needing a single continuous plot to hold it together.
Watching The House on Ktime
The House streams on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles available, letting viewers pick whichever suits their preference. A free K-Time account login is required to watch, though the page itself is open to browse without signing in. It joins K-Time's catalog of animated features curated for a Farsi-speaking audience, alongside other 2022 releases across drama and comedy.