Episode 282: LA CASA LOBO (THE WOLF HOUSE) (2018) with Finn Odum

With Finn Odum (@Finnematic)!

LA CASA LOBO (THE WOLF HOUSE) is a harrowing journey through violent change. The leader of a cult spins a cautionary fairy tale to indoctrinate followers, telling the story of Maria, a girl who finds herself locked in an abandoned house in the woods after narrowly avoiding the jaws of an overbearing wolf outside. Afraid to return to her isolated community, Maria comes to depend on the wolf’s protection and insulation from malicious forces both within the house and outside its shifting walls.

Created by Chilean artists Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León, LA CASA LOBO is inspired by Colonia Dignidad, the real colony in Chile where German fugitives conducted extensive human rights abuses while governments looked the other way. We’re proud to welcome Finn Odum, editor at Perisphere, the Trylon blog, back to the podcast to discuss this intense, enthralling, unrelenting story, told using some of the most viscerally creative stop-motion animation you’ll ever see.

Find Finn…

On Twitter at @Finnematic
On Letterboxd at @finnofthedead
On Perisphere, the Trylon blog
On Trylove episodes about THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951), DIABOLIQUE (1955), CON AIR (1997), and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973)

References:

Watch LA CASA LOBO (THE WOLF HOUSE) on the Internet Archive
“Arica, mi Amor: Cine Chileno y La casa lobo” by Finn Odum for Perisphere, the Trylon blog
“Anatomy of a Right-Wing Fable: La casa lobo” by MH Rowe for Perisphere, the Trylon blog

Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/perisphere-blog-post-guidelines/

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at trylon.org.

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. I’m not gonna tell you what we used as the closing audio because I don’t want to get sued.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 282: LA CASA LOBO (THE WOLF HOUSE) (2018) with Finn Odum

1:14 - The episode actually starts

3:03 - The Patented Cody Narveson Summary

6:20 - The film's importance to Chile as well as within a repertory film lineup

11:18 - Kicking off the roundtable discussion

18:53 - Making sense of LA CASA LOBO's visual style

26:34 - Chile and the cycle of exploitation

37:05 - The titular house as a living refraction of the film's “Us vs. Them” mentality

54:07 - Why now?

1:06:12 - The Junk Drawer

1:11:57 - To All the Loves We've Tried Before: 2018

1:13:57 - Cody's Noteys: The House of Champions 2018