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When Jessie, who is of German-Chinese descent, returns to her parents’ house in the Black Forest with her teenage daughter Mila to claim her inheritance, she soon finds herself confronted with the traumas of her own youth. After all, her sister disappeared from there under mysterious circumstances back in 1999. As a look at her grandparents’ history reveals, this was by no means the first time strange things had happened within those old walls. For three generations, Jessie’s family has been haunted by ghosts of the past that simply refuse to rest. And Jessie and Mila seem to have inherited an ancient curse along with the house. “House of Yang,” on the other hand, which emerged as the winner of the SWR idea competition on the theme “Deep in the Southwest” from 180 submissions, is a true blessing: a harrowing family history told through the lens of genre cinema, proving that it’s not just the Grimms who can uncover fascinating material in the Black Forest.

If you enjoyed “Dark”, “Looking into the Sun” and “The Amityville Horror”.