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Horror, Drama 93 min NR
Rotten Tomatoes100%Metacritic72IMDb
When ghosts follow, they never leave.
After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.
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*His House* takes one of haunted-house cinema’s oldest practical problems, “why don’t they just leave?”, and gives it a particularly nasty answer: because leaving might get you deported. Bol and Rial have escaped South Sudan, survived a lethal crossing and been deposited by the British asylum system into a decaying house they are required to inhabit. Remi Weekes makes that bureaucracy part of the haunting. The building is not simply unpleasant. It is a place they have been told to be grateful for, while every condition of their new life reminds them that their welcome remains provisional. Then the walls start making noises. What *His House* does particularly well is make the supernatural feel attached to the couple rather than the property. Watery footprints, figures inside the walls and an excellent sequence involving a light switch gradually suggest that this is not an English ghost patiently waiting for new tenants. Something has crossed the water with them. That matters because Bol and Rial respond to displacement very differently. Bol tries desperately to become what Britain appears to require, changing his clothes, destroying possessions and insisting this is now home. Rial i
Read the whole review on TMDBWhen "Bol" (Sope Dirisu) and his wife "Rial" (Wunmi Mosaku) arrive in the UK after fleeing their war-torn home in South Sudan, they are given leave to remain whilst their case is further investigated, and housed in an ordinary - if a bit run down - housing estate. Helped by their case worker "Mark" (Matt Smith) they are given the basic essentials to get by, but as their stay becomes more extended they struggle to fit into a community that is at best disinterested, at worst a bit hostile - all whilst they start to believe that their new home is possessed! Things quite literally start going bump in the night and the couple begin to wonder if this has something to do with their ancestors, or perhaps the spirits of the folks they left behind to face the uncertainty. It's those last scenarios that we see expressed through dreams and flashbacks and that give us a clue as to just what horrors they escaped. Question is, though: are there now even greater horrors here for them now? At times this can be quite a compelling look at the psychology of people caught between two stools. Not fitting where they now are, not fitting where they once were. The cultural challenges they face now, though,
Read the whole review on TMDBA power-house debut from Remi Weekes, deftly balancing social commentary with old school horror (and for once, without zombies). The movie pulls you inside the life of a Sudanese refugee couple assigned to an apartment in London after a harrowing escape via boat from their home country. In addition to the nightmare of their experience, they’ve got a potential poltergeist. Movies often face-plant while struggle to convey what is real, a dream, a backstory, or something else. "His House" weaves these shifts expertly. And you will not see the twist coming in the last act. Here's hoping Remi Weekes joins Ari Aster and Robbert Eggers, bringing horror to a new level of intellectual freakiness.
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