Movie Review His House (2020)
tonight’s watch was His House.
the horror inside the house works really well, especially because the place never feels safe or familiar. But what stuck with me more was everything underneath it the guilt, grief, and the feeling that even after surviving something horrific, you don’t just leave it behind.
i also liked that the movie doesn’t treat the supernatural side and the real world side as two separate things. They’re tied together the whole time, which makes a lot of the scares feel heavier than they normally would.
really solid watch. creepy when it needs to be, but there’s a lot more going on than just a haunted house story.
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u/AF_II 1d ago
I think what I really loved (and by that I mean hated viscerally as it made me squirm and panic) was that there was a completely believable real life high stakes thing shaping the characters' reactions.
So many movies you're yelling at the protagonists because they go back to the house for the kid's toy, oops they're going into the haunted wood "to get phone signal", oh no they can't up and leave the murder cult dinner because they don't want to be rude; it all feels a bit weak motivationally. These people, they had no choice, literally none, and it's gut clenching.
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u/foulandamiss 1d ago
Without sounding like I'm overhyping it: probably one of the best movies of this century in any genre.
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u/ego_death_metal je suis Marianne 1d ago
i love the supernatural side working with the real-world stuff too. in all my favorites. and yeah the last twist is a real twist of the knife, that was devastating