Film

His House

Name: His House
Genre: Horror, Drama
Released: 2020
Cast: Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Wunmi Mosaku, Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba, Matt Smith, Javier Botet

Horror
Very dark

A haunted-house horror that uses its genre machinery to explore displacement, trauma, and the psychological cost of survival. A refugee couple trying to rebuild in small-town England discovers their new home harbours something darker than bricks and mortar—and learns that ghosts aren't always supernatural. Bracingly clever and painfully human.

TMDb rating

3.2

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you want a slow, grief-soaked haunted-house story where the real dread comes from displacement, guilt and a marriage under strain, and the ghosts are as much about memory as menace.

Skip it if you need jump scares and a brisk pace, since this builds its unease slowly and leans on a heavy, serious mood with little room for relief.

What it asks of you: Roughly ninety-three minutes of unhurried, watchful scenes that trust you to read what goes unsaid, and to sit with discomfort rather than be rescued from it.

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