His House

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.

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.

An allegory! Breathtaking movie about refugees who leave a war zone on any cost, and try to settle in a new life. But how easy is to get rid of the wounds one carries and the deads one leaves behind. Wonderful acting.

Narra una buena historia y es terrorífica, la recomiendo si te quieres asustar.

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.

The story is not bad but form of the narrating and its tempo is horrible. It has nothing but only one jump scare.

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.