Synopsis
The Banishing (2021) is a British horror film from Christopher Smith that you can watch online on iFILM. It's 1930s England, war looming on the horizon, when a young reverend named Linus moves into a church-owned house with his wife Marianne and their adopted daughter.
Nobody tells the new arrivals what happened to the previous tenant: he lost his mind, killed his wife and hanged himself. The little girl starts talking to someone no one else can see, hooded figures drift through the halls, and Linus keeps denying it all, brushing off the eccentric occultist Harry Price, played by Sean Harris. Jessica Brown Findlay carries the emotional weight as Marianne. The script draws on the legend of Borley Rectory, long called the most haunted house in England.
Smith builds dread through suffocation rather than jump scares: religious guilt, a woman nobody believes, and walls that keep another man's sin. It suits anyone who likes slow gothic horror over cheap shocks. Stream The Banishing online on iFILM.
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