This Place is a Sh*thole
2025 · 4m · UK
Directed by Will Wightman
Genres: dark comedy, horror
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
A bickering kitchen-sink argument in an overpriced, filthy London flatshare spirals into a full-blown horror when a creature erupts from the murky sludge in the sink. The monster embodies all the accumulated grime, frustration, and resentment of housemate life.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A kitchen-sink argument mutating into creature-horror is precisely the kind of premise that shouldn't work, and yet Wightman commits to it with such brazen sincerity that it becomes genuinely unsettling—the Insta360 hack is window dressing; the real subversion is treating housemating resentment as legitimate cosmic body-horror.
The formal constraint of 360-degree capture nods to expanded cinema lineage, though the execution leans toward novelty over interrogation; the kitchen-sink realism ancestry (Osborne, Cathy Come Home) sits uneasily with the creature spectacle, and the collision never quite achieves synthesis.
Shooting on the Insta360 One RS isn't just a camera choice—it's the entire film's skeleton, forcing Wightman to choreograph spatial chaos and claustrophobia in ways a flat frame simply cannot achieve, and that single technical commitment transforms a four-minute argument into something architecturally disorienting and genuinely memorable.
Reviews
builds with laughs, shocks, and weird sh*t aplenty.
demonstrates how constraint breeds innovation in the most literal sense.