His House
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): October 30, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
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IndieWireDavid EhrlichOct 28, 2020
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. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonOct 30, 2020
Though this isn’t very gory, the intensity level is impressive in the haunting scenes, so much so that, at one point, I caught myself watching through my fingers. The sound design also deserves mention, because a haunted house is only as good as its noises, creaks, and moans. Read full review
80
Vanity FairRichard LawsonNov 7, 2020
His House is a grim and poetic lament about a boggling global tragedy. Read full review
80
PolygonRobert DanielsOct 30, 2020
Remi Weekes’ feature directorial debut not only exposes the horrors of the immigration system, but mines survivor guilt for a clever, bone-chilling thriller. Read full review
80
IGNSiddhant AdlakhaOct 29, 2020
Tightly wound on almost every front, His House packs an enormous emotional punch even once its scares grow stale. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Simran HansOct 28, 2020
Genuine jump scares are bolstered by the film’s spooky sound design, as well as terrific performances from Dirisu and Mosaku, whose terror is palpable. Read full review
80
EmpireChris Hewitt (1)Oct 19, 2020
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. Read full review
75
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenJan 4, 2021
Wunmi Mosaku (Ruby on HBO’s Lovecraft Country) has a fierce sense of determination, even if her character has to defer in this traditional marriage, and Sope Dirisu keeps revealing more and more layers to the husband, a man struggling to survive under what ultimately feels like the curse of assimilation. Read full review
75
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiOct 30, 2020
Throughout, Dirisu and Mosaku enliven a fascinating character study. Read full review
75
Original-CinKaren GordonOct 29, 2020
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. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubAnya StanleyOct 28, 2020
A potent, heart-wrenching spin on the classic haunted house story, buoyed by two stellar lead performances. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineDerek SmithOct 26, 2020
Throughout, Remi Weekes forcefully, resonantly ties the film’s terror to the inner turmoil of his characters. Read full review
70
Rolling StoneK. Austin CollinsNov 5, 2020
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. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriOct 30, 2020
Horror is often cathartic, purifying — it puts you through the wringer but you emerge on the other side, somehow cleansed. You’ll find no such succor here. His House is beautifully made, and its scares are monstrously effective, but its images of real-world dread remain unresolved, its specters unvanquished. The film leaves you with wounds that won’t heal. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangOct 29, 2020
A crafty feature debut for the English writer-director Remi Weekes, His House is one of those return-of-the-repressed freakouts in which suspense and social conscience effectively breathe as one. That’s the idea, anyway. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreNov 3, 2020
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. Read full review
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The Associated PressJake CoyleOct 29, 2020
By bringing the migrant crisis into a horror-film realm, His House has forcefully captured the traumas of the refugee experience. The grounded performances and pained faces of Dìrísù and Mosaku offer no easy answers. Read full review
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzOct 27, 2020
Ultimately, Weekes’s story, which pivots on a minor-key twist that doesn’t quite earn its intended gasps, falls just short of justifying its feature-film length. There is an excellent short film hiding in the corridors of His House – it just needs a slight renovation. Read full review
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VarietyJessica KiangFeb 5, 2020
A potent if unbalanced mashup of social-issues polemic and haunted-house horror. Read full review
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