A House With Good Bones (2023)

Sam Montgomery is an entomologist visiting her mother in rural North Carolina, armed with sensible shoes, dry wit and practical bug facts. Kingfisher excels at folksy domestic banter and wry observations about Southern suburban politeness, but the underlying terror builds with merciless patience. Vulture gatherings, underground swarms of ladybirds, jars of human teeth and suffocating ancestral malevolence turn this cosy domestic visit into pure Southern gothic nightmare. The humour provides necessary relief before the dread closes its fist.