His House
Directed by Remi Weekes
- horror
- drama
The story
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.
What it’s like
Cold, grey English light pours through the windows of a damp council house, and the camera stays close and watchful, often holding on faces and doorways while the frame feels tight around its characters. The palette runs to muted browns, slate blues and the sickly yellow of old lamps, with the nightmare sequences bleeding into shadow and wet, dark textures. Sound is sparse and unsettling: low rumbling drones, a distant crackle, the creak of floorboards, and long stretches of near silence that make every knock feel like a threat. Its vibe is bleak, haunted and quietly grieving, the kind of film to sit with on a dark night rather than a light one. A young couple fleeing a war-torn homeland try to build a fragile life in a new country while the past follows them, and the film is slow and deliberate, building dread through memory and unease rather than jump scares. The intensity is high: there are frightening supernatural images, brief but harsh scenes of war and violence in flashback, drowning imagery, and a heavy, persistent sense of loss and trauma, though the gore is limited. It suits viewers drawn to atmospheric, emotionally serious horror and stories of displacement, grief and cultural memory, and is not gentle viewing.
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