The House That Jack Built
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- Directed by
- Lars von Trier
- Written by
- Lars von Trier
- Produced by
- Louise Vesth, Jonas Bagger, Peter Aalbæk Jensen, Maj-Britt Paulmann, Marianne Slot, Sascha Verhey, Lizette Jonjic, Piv Bernth, Madeleine Ekman, Tomas Eskilsson, Tine Grew Pfeiffer, Bettina Brokemper, Thomas Gammeltoft, Charlotte Pedersen, Leonid Ogaryov, Lasse Mucha Andersen, Ida Harder, Lina Wichmann, Kristina Prilukova
Why it’s HorroRated
The House That Jack Built is Lars von Trier making a film about what it means to watch a film about what he's making. It's formally rigorous, disturbing, and in conversation with the history of horror and art cinema simultaneously. Matt Dillon's Jack is a fully realized character whose logic the film presents without endorsing. An essential and difficult film.
Synopsis
Lars von Trier places the audience in the position of following Jack's logic and his aesthetic justifications. An austere, difficult film that takes the serial killer genre's implicit questions about spectatorship and makes them explicit and uncomfortable. Matt Dillon's Jack is a fully realized character whose logic the film presents without endorsing.
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Where to watch The House That Jack Built
- Free
- Tubi · The Roku Channel · Kanopy
- Rent or buy
- Prime Video · Apple TV · YouTube · Google Play · Fandango at Home
Streaming in the US changes often. Listings from JustWatch via TMDB, checked November 10, 2026.See every option
Quick facts
- Release date
- October 4, 2018
- Runtime
- 2 hours 32 mins
- Country
- Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden
- Language
- English, German, Italian
- Content rating
- R
- Entry type
- Movie
Content notes
- Blood and gore
- Violence and peril
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