Juri and Loan finally get proof that the house controls its residents, and the missing baby resurfaces in an air shaft.

Hausen’s final two episodes offered the possibility of a slam bang ending, but true to its preceding instalments, this German language horror creeps to an unsatisfying and predictable conclusion. It’s disappointing that what began as a creepy urban horror fable outstayed its welcome by adding little new narrative development each week and amounts to something that could have been told in a couple of hours.

The series has never been lacking in atmosphere, and perhaps it’s too much in love with its grim locale, lingering on crumbling concrete, patches of mould and grimy corridors. Juri cannot get through to his father, who is now seemingly under the full control of the house. In response, Jaschek arranges for Juri to be committed to an institution, oblivious to how he’s being controlled by the malignant force.

The resourceful youngster manages to escape and finally confronts the ‘big bad’ at the same time a fire rages through the block. To say that the final resolution underwhelms and doesn’t provide with the answers you might have expected, let alone left us with a definite conclusion… this isn’t that show.

Verdict: Gloopy, grim and glum – this pre-fab Hades must ultimately be judged as an interesting but colourless thriller that used up its ideas too quickly and even then didn’t feel obliged to explain itself.  6/10

Nick Joy