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Mr. Van Schoonbeek has specifically created these garments to complement his architectural vision.
~ Thomas telling Raymond and Penny to wear the clothes Mr. Van Schoonbeek gave them, as well as revealing Mr. Van Schoonbeek's true intentions.

Mr. Van Schoonbeek is the main antagonist of the first story "And heard within, a lie is spun" in the 2022 Netflix animated film The House.

He was voiced by Barney Pilling.

Biography[]

As Raymond sulks in the forest at night, drunk and upset over his relatives' comments regarding his poverty, he discovers a sedan chair in the middle of the woods, unaccompanied by any servants and lit from within by a warm lantern's glow, with Mr. Van Schoonbeak sitting inside and silently beckoning him through the window. Though their conversation is never heard, Raymond returns home some time later, ravenously hungry and raving about "a miracle" and how "everything's changed". Before his wife could get a straight answer from him, Raymond ends up falling asleep at the table.

The next day, a man named Thomas appears at their doorstep and explains what happened to Raymond last night: Mr. Van Schoonbeek, Thomas's employer and an eccentric architect and artist, has designed a beautiful hilltop mansion and has offered to let Raymond and his family live there at no cost, desiring only artistic satisfaction rather than monetary gain. The only caveat is that they must give up their old house and everything inside and move in immediately.

Mr. Van Schoonbeek never meets with the rest of the family, even after they move in, although during the first night when Raymond struggles to light the fireplace, he is seen sitting in a darkened corner, rocking back and forth on a stool and giggling maniacally at him, seemingly unnoticed by Raymond. He reappears a second time behind Thomas in the basement as he is hiding in a dark corridor, quietly watching Emily head back upstairs. Here, Van Schoonbeek is far larger than normal, with his head alone taking up much of the corridor, making Thomas appear doll-sized compared to him.

He appears briefly a third time during a nighttime shot of the mansion from outside, with his head as a large, ghostly overlay covering the house and his eyes overlapping a pair of lit windows,

He reappears for the last time as Raymond and his wife Penny have transformed into furniture, laughing uproariously as he did before.

He does not appear in either of the next two chapters, although in the second chapter, the house is mentioned to be on "Van Schoonbeek Lane".

Personality[]

Mr. Van Schoonbeek is an enigmatic character whose true nature and abilities are left vague. He seems to play the role of a tempter, enticing Raymond and his family into his house with promises of luxury and comfort, only to trap them and absorb them into his mad artistic creations. It's implied he has some sort of supernatural power, drawing Raymond into his clutches with his words, seemingly hypnotizing him and his wife to turn a blind eye to their daughters and the danger they are in. In all but his first appearance, whenever he is in the same room as the others, he is never addressed or noticed, as if he were invisible and silent to normal people even when he laughs out loud. His supernatural nature is made more blatant in the basement, where he appears as a giant compared to Thomas. This, paired with the dollhouse in the opening scene, seems to imply that Mr. Van Schoonbeek sees Thomas and all the others as mere dolls or playthings, and takes sadistic delight in watching them succumb to the house, eventually turning Raymond and Penny into a chair and a set of curtains, respectively, letting them both burn down along with the house.

Aside from his manservant Thomas, Mr. Van Schoonbeek also employs a team of construction workers who continually repair and refurbish the mansion, though they also end up trapping Mabel and her family inside by walling up hallways and removing the stairs. When Mabel attempts to talk to them, they only glare at her with glazed, zombie-like glares, as if they were under some sort of mind control. His powers of persuasion seem to be limited, however- Mabel and Isobel don't seem to fall for the same tricks that their parents do, and Thomas, while he does carry out Van Schoonbeek's commands, is shown to regret his actions more and more until Mabel and Isobel discover him in the attic reduced to a drunken wreck, sobbing loudly and surrounded by empty bottles. He confesses he's just an actor being fed lines, and doesn't want to do this anymore. His fate is unknown.

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