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Director: Remi Weekes

Writers: Remi Weekes (screenplay); Felicity Evans and Toby Venables (story by)

Release Date: 30th October 2020

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His House is equal parts social commentary and rabid nightmare. It's a haunted house flick for the twenty-first century. There's no grand mansion with arched windows and weather vale here; no writer turned murderous madman. Weekes' debut film, instead, focuses on two asylum seekers, Bol and Rial Majur, who are dropped into a decrepit council house after fleeing war-torn South Sudan. Their new lodgings feel like a hellish purgatory that is wedged somewhere between the traumatic memories of the life they left in East-Central Africa and their idyllic vision of Britain gone wrong. Particularly potent is the film's sound design, which crones and whines its way into your ears. A director in his professional infancy, Weekes occasionally relies on the same jump scares to deliver the frights, yet there remains a lot to like. And, with the film's all-encompassing representation of the migrant experience, there's a lot to digest, too. 

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