His House

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…

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*…

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 ar…

*His House* takes one of haunted-house cinema’s oldest practical problems, “why don’t they just leave?”, and gives it a particularly nasty answer: because leaving might get you deported. Bol and Rial have escaped South Sudan, survived a lethal crossing and been deposited by the British asylum system into a decaying…