A Sudanese couple seek asylum in the
UK but find something evil lurking in an accomplished debut from writer-director Remi Weekes
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With his striking debut feature His House,
British writer-director Remi Weekes has constructed a horror film that takes the overstuffed and overfamiliar haunted house subgenre and briefly revitalises it. He combines elements that are fresh and others that are familiar to create both a humanising story of
immigration and an unsettling, old-fashioned tale of a haunting, neatly oscillating between the two. It’s a confident and compelling statement of intent from a young, ambitious film-maker and it’s no surprise that
Netflix sneaked in before Sundance kicked off to buy the rights.
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