2020
“After all we’ve endured, after what we have seen, what men can do, you think it is bumps in the night that frighten me? You think I can be afraid of ghosts?”
His House came to Netflix on October 30th last year, with little fanfare at the end of Netflix And Chills 2020, but has since been highlighted by Empire among other places.
The question with haunted house stories is always why they don’t get out. In His House from director Remi Weekes, Bol (Sope Dìrísù) and Rial (Wunmi Mosaku) are refugees seeking asylum assigned a council house somewhere near London as they wait for a decision about whether they can stay. And even if they weren’t in danger of deportation, Bol feels he struggled to get here and deserves to stay.
It plays well with their isolation and the strangeness of the place, the normal pressures as well as the supernatural ones that get increasingly surreal. It also has them treated quite differently by the haunting, which is something I haven’t seen often.
And for Doctor Who fans who may be wondering, at no point is Matt Smith’s character particularly helpful. His familiarity kind of pulls me out of the story, good as he is, especially when early on he mentions “There’s a doctor down the road...”
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