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- 2020
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 1 h 33 m
- 2020
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 1 h 33 m
Summary 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.
Directed By: Remi Weekes
Written By: Felicity Evans, Toby Venables, Remi Weekes
- 2020
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 1 h 33 m
- 2020
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 1 h 33 m
His House
72
6.9
Where to Watch
Summary 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.
Directed By: Remi Weekes
Written By: Felicity Evans, Toby Venables, Remi Weekes
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
72
95% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
5% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
72
95% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
5% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
For all of its clumsiness and rookie missteps (which continue through the film’s gut-punch of a coda), His House is an urgent and spine-tingling ghost story about what it means to begin anew in a home that may not want you to live in it.
Remi Weekes’ feature directorial debut not only exposes the horrors of the immigration system, but mines survivor guilt for a clever, bone-chilling thriller.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 87 User Ratings
6.9
66% Positive
57 Ratings
57 Ratings
22% Mixed
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
13% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 87 User Ratings
6.9
66% Positive
57 Ratings
57 Ratings
22% Mixed
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
13% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
In His House, a couple succeeds in escaping the nightmare of being a refugee only to be greeted by a new kind of terror—the past. This film attempts and in my opinion succeeds, in telling a horror story that is much more than about monsters but about our own demons and how they haunt us.
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One of the best British horror debuts in years, populated by well-drawn characters and a particularly nasty spirit. If you get a chance to move into His House, take it.
If His House doesn’t quite achieve the deeply unsettling tone that makes a good horror movie hard to shake, it still succeeds as an exploration of trauma, and the way it can shape and challenge the human psyche.
His House is a strong debut, and exciting — even as its horrors risk redundancy as the film wears on — for its uncanny merging of political experience and the usual, perilous haunted-house thrills.
It’s not close to being the scariest movie you’ve seen this year. But the political/immigration subtext, the grim cause-and-effect of their haunting and a pretty good twist or two make His House a haunted British council flat tale well worth checking out.
A potent if unbalanced mashup of social-issues polemic and haunted-house horror.
Narra una buena historia y es terrorífica, la recomiendo si te quieres asustar.
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The first half was quite nice, atmospheric and sometimes caused goosebumps. The second half was then but a classic trauma story strand in the horror genre. It was likely at the beginning that it would happen like that, but the staging overall was still quite refreshing and well resolved, especially due to the premise with which the film starts. The film was even sad in places and had a great soundscape, but it's not really convincing on its meta level of the refugee issue.
2.5/5 5/10 ghosts overall.
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The story is not bad but form of the narrating and its tempo is horrible. It has nothing but only one jump scare.
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I have a feeling that this movie receives praise because of its attempt to humanise "the refugees", rather than it's a good movie. Take that away and it is a mediocre attempt at horror.
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Production Company
Regency Enterprises,
BBC Film,
New Regency Productions,
Vertigo Entertainment,
Starchild Pictures
Release Date Oct 30, 2020
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating TV-14
Awards
British Independent Film Awards
• 4 Wins & 16 Nominations
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
• 7 Nominations
Fright Meter Awards
• 5 Nominations
