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Film Brain reviews this German horror film, staged in a single continuous shot, where a pregnant fiancée discovers her future family have some ghosts in their home - and their past.

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00:00Neither than Farouk is home, but she's not alone, in the German horror film Home Sweet Home, where evil lives.

00:07Farouk is heavily pregnant at her fiancé David Cross's family home, waiting for him to return,

00:13but she soon finds it harbours a ghost with a dark generational secret.

00:18Home Sweet Home is staged as a single shot, which means it effectively plays out in real time,

00:23which genuinely adds to the eerie atmosphere, especially in its early scenes,

00:27as Farouk makes her way slowly through the house.

00:30And she's not just carrying a baby, she's carrying the entire movie, and she does a terrific job of it.

00:36What she finds in the basement isn't a Native American burial ground,

00:40but what is, is the sins of Germany's colonialism in Africa at the turn of the 20th century,

00:45which would provide a unique historical backdrop for the horror, if the film did anything with it.

00:50That potentially interesting commentary is immediately discarded for a very conventional

00:54stalk-and-chase third act that all gets very silly in a way that even the gimmick can't hide.

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