His House is the horror film we needed

Halloween just passed and I’ve been looking for scary movies coming out other than ordinary hocus-pocus. I had the opportunity to watch an advanced screening of the new thriller and horror film written and directed by Remi Weekes from a story by Felicity Evans and Toby Venables, His House became available to stream on NetFlix on October 30th, 2020. I was very optimistic about how the content was going to come off and if His House was going to be scary or if I was going to be afraid. We’ve been seeing a lot of black writers and directors step into this genre over the last few years like Jason Peele who released several projects, that have challenged the horror Genre. Normally when we think about black people in scary movies, it can be comical and when things get eerie we exit stage left, watching black folks reactions can be comical but His House was not like that.

His house was based on a refugee couple from South Sudan, starring Wunmi Mosaku, Sope Dirisu, and Matt Smith. The couple was torn from a war zone in their country seeking a new life in an English town. What’s cool about this concept is that it dug more into the background of what a black person in this position could experience. His House wasn’t the typical storyline that took place in an America hood or where it showed the characters experiencing racial injustice. In His House were able to see a different culture…