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Wunmi Mosaku

Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba

Matt Smith

Javier Botet

Yvonne Campbell

Vivienne Soan

Lola May

Kevin Layne

Maureen Casey

Homer Todiwala

Dominic Coleman

Sally Plumb

Roland Manookian

Andy Gathergood

Rasaq Kukoyi

Gamba Cole

Bradley Banton

Emily Taaffe

Ian Horgan

Perry Warner

Mevis Birungi

John Kamau

Destiny Okoh

Steven Blakeley

Tabitha Wady

Kyna Boyle

Julius Reuben

Lanre Olagoke

Adwoa Brown

Mark Gooden

Rita Laker-Acaye

Simon Akinwunmi

Mikey Adewunmi

Yasmine Smith

Cornell John

Aliyah Sesay

Vivien Bridson

Scott Michael Wagstaff

Ty Hurley

Rene Costa

Marie Hamm

Peter Burgis

Adam Bourne

Robby Brown

Rebecca Heathcote

Carsten Richter

Richard Pryke

Christoph Oertel

Chris Lyons

Tony Davis

Alden Dalia

Jack Sands

Jen Annor

David Horrill

Daniel Carrasco

Charlie Carline

Rebecca Cunningham

Kevin Daly

Dora Krolikowska

Lawrence Beckwith

Timothy Hampton

John Whickman

Adam Ridge

Daniel Smith

Daniel Butler

Clare Seymour

Simon Baker

Felicity Hickson

Emily Woodward

Jonathan Spencer

Harry Gay

Jonathan Scott

Nichola Pan Hao

Sara Harrak

Darren Harvey

Nathan Mann

Filipa Fabrica

Stefano Pepin

Tom Davey

Dan Bryne

Greg Whitbrook

Jane Soans

Samuel Sharpe

Charles Obaro

Lucy Ward

Annabelle Hood

Chris Barrow

Luke Stevenson

Paul Carter

Sam Phillips

Tabitha Denny-Northover

Hannah Shipley

Garry Moore

Darren Jackson

James Hogan

Seamus Hawthorne

Simon Jones

Judith Sunga

Reg Patterson

Michael Geary

Jamie Whickman

Sam Gardner

Jamie Ember

Aaron Hopkins

Aiden Convey

Aidan Monaghan

Lucy Whitton

Rob Bliss

Frank Kruse

Steven Schneider

Markus Stemler

Tamara Ramsey

Mark Heslop

Helena Card

Michael Schaefer

Stuart Manashil

Sharon Martin

Khadija Najahi

Nezha Aouis

Mark Huffam

Yariv Milchan

Eva Yates

Jacqueline Abrahams

Remi Weekes

Martin Gentles

Aidan Elliott

Arnon Milchan

Edward King

Roy Lee

Natalie Lehmann

Glenn Freemantle

Jo Hawthorne

Imogen McGrath

Horacio Martinez

Sangeet Prabhaker

Marvin Campbell

Ben Essex

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His House

New Regency Pictures

BBC Film

Starchild Pictures

Vertigo Entertainment

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

drowning

refugee

supernatural

trauma

ghost

folklore

south sudan

diaspora

loss of child

black horror

Repo Jack

A 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.

A glimpse of the horrors faced by refugees escaping war-torn countries for a better life in Britain is provocatively probed in this stylish supernatural horror film from talented writer-director Remi Weekes. <a href="https://www.top10films.co.uk/67374-review-his-house-a-smart-chilling-contemporary-horror/">**His House**</a> unexpectedly blends the anxiety, confusion and alienation felt by a pair of asylum seekers from South Sudan with a nightmarish malevolence born from dark magic and folklore. [_Read my full review on <a href="https://www.top10films.co.uk/67374-review-his-house-a-smart-chilling-contemporary-horror/">Top 10 Films</a>_].

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When "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, aren't really developed and I found the characterisation of the ultra-tolerant "Mark" a little hard to believe, especially as the hunt for their ethereal nemesis starts to manifest itself in ways that become a little too surreal. Indeed, that's maybe the problem with this. It's trying to combine social and political points, but there's nowhere near enough punch from the dialogue and any message is bogged down in a confused hybrid of their supernatural experiences and the reality of their new British life. It can't have had much of a budget but that needn't have mattered had director Remi Weekes focussed more on keeping the story tight and on developing the characters a little more. It invites us to sympathise based on what he presumes are our own moral standards rather than present us with anything or anybody that's especially interesting. As ever, Smith completely underwhelms and though Mosaku offers us some emotional oomph, the rest of this is disappointingly unremarkable.

HIS HOUSE | Official Trailer | Netflix

His House( 2020)

When ghosts follow, they never leave.

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Written by Repo Jack on Tue Nov 03 2020

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