History WesternAnimation / TheHouse2022

** The Developer angers his [[spoiler: supposed]] lover on the phone by calming them darling, so instead he promises to never call them that again, in the process calling them sweetheart. Cue phone getting put down.

* IRejectYourReality: [[spoiler: When confronted by two police officers on the grounds of harassing his dentist by pretending their his lover over the phone, the Developer claims it's not important and that he's done nothing wrong. A rewatch of prior events implies he's trying to force this delusion into the Dentist's own life whilst ignoring the wrongness of it all; his comments to the cops demonstrate he's fully aware that he's been calling his dentist, so it's not a mistake on his end, and when he's hung up on for the final time, the Developer shouts "Dammit!" coming across as angry at the recipient for not playing along rather that upset that his partner has cut communications.]]

* NitpickyAboutLivingArrangements : All of the stories have this in some capacity.
** In the first story, Raymond longs for his previous privileged life that was forcibly taken away from him due to his father being a degenerate gambler. He immediately jumps at the chance to relocate to a spacious mansion built for him and his wife and daughters by a mysterious wealthy man.
** In the second story, the Developer makes the house look pretty modern and stylish, but at the cost of giving off a soulless feeling while neglecting to put thought in basic necessities.
** In the third story, Rosa works tirelessly trying to put up outdated wallpaper.

* NitpickyAboutLivingArrangements: Raymond longs for his previous privileged life that was forcibly taken away from him due to his father being a degenerate gambler. He immediately jumps at the chance to relocate to a spacious mansion built for him and his wife and daughters by a mysterious wealthy man

* NitpickyAboutLivingArrangements: The the first story, Raymond longs for his previous privileged life that was forcibly taken away from him due to his father being a degenerate gambler. He immediately jumps at the chance to relocate to a spacious mansion built for him and his wife and daughters by a mysterious wealthy man

* MeaningfulName: a trait almost all the characters share across the stories is how their names describe them.
** In the First story:

* AnAesop: Wealth and materialism aren't going to make you happy. The final chapter also adds the moral that obsessions, even for fairly reasonable things, can go too far and become unhealthy; sooner or later, you'll have to move on.
* CallBack: There are slight details that help connect the stories together:
** In the second story, a family similar to Raymond's appears during the open house, with the youngest still being called Isobel. The street the House is on is called [[ThirteenIsUnlucky 13]] [=VanSchoonbeek=] Lane. Additionally, Penelope's sewing machine can be seen in a dumpster in the opening scene.
** In the third story, while the insect infestation is absent, one appears briefly on some stairs in a shot when Rosa opens a door.

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** In the second story, after an untold time falling apart, the Developer takes a chance with The House. At first nothing supernatural really happens as The House seeming allows his renovations go unimpeded. As he cuts corners all over the place, and the open house event fails to actually bring in a new family to make The House a home, it opts to make the strange elderly Couple and their family as a last resort. [[spoiler: [[DidntThinkThisThrough It fails to take into account that, as former bugs, they don't have any money to actually buy The House with.]] And their squatting, coupled with the Developer's fraying mind [[spoiler: ultimately leads to them [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard acting like the insects they are, and causes the Developer to devolve into a verminous state (respectively), fully destroying its interior and whatever actual improvements that were made]].]]

* OhLookMoreRooms: Played for horror. Van Schoonbeek's carpenters are constantly building up the house, but its appearance from the outside never changes. Mabel wakes up one day to find that her window to the outside is suddenly a window into a new, windowless room. She and Isobel eventually end up lost within the constantly expanding interior, and are at real risk of death by starvation.

* IRejectYourReality: [[spoiler: When confronted by two police officers on the grounds of harassing his dentist by pretending their his lover over the phone, the Developer claims it's not important and that he's done nothing wrong. A rewatch of prior events implies he's trying to force this delusion into the Dentist's own life, on the basis that when he's hung up on for the final time, the Developer shouts "Dammit!" as his fantasy no longer has ground.]]

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: A shot of the house has two illuminated windows become Schoonbeek's eyes as a phantom overlay of his face fades in front of it, signifying his unnatural influence on it.

** In the second story, a family similar to Raymond's appears during the open house, with the youngest still being called Isobel. The street the House is on is called [[ThirteenIsUnlucky 13]] [=VanSchoonbeek=] Lane.