A refugee couple from Sudan are placed by the authorities in a grotty house in a small town. where they struggle to adapt to the customs of their new homeland, including endemic racism. Their past has left them scarred, though, having lost their daughter on the way to England, and this soon manifests itself as waking nightmares where they are haunted by an evil presence hiding in the walls of their house.
Sadly, her's where it veers off course: it wants to talk about loss and trauma, but the horror trappings (not really helped by having Doctor Who Matt Smith as their case worker) prevent us from being able to engage properly with any serious intentions, and it doen't function too well as a horror film either.
5/10
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