Ozon and the script move a little too far afield and hold on a bit too long as the film approaches its end. Still, In the House has enough trippy truth to it to grab your interest and shake your mind.
morose - showing a brooding ill humor; a dark scowl; the proverbially dour New England Puritan; a glum, hopeless shrug; he sat in moody silence; a morose and unsociable manner; a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius- Bruce Bliven; a sour temper; a sullen crowd.
The term suggests debauchery and disorder in addition to sadistic enjoyment. Another phrase with a meaning similar to Schadenfreude is morose delectation (delectatio morosa in Latin), meaning, The habit of dwelling with enjoyment on evil thoughts. The medieval church taught that morose delectation was a sin.