When an elderly Haitian grandma is forced to move in with her estranged son, she begins to suspect something is very wrong with his perfect family.

This season’s penultimate instalment of the horror anthology series does something a bit different by playing out its end scene first and then flashing back to calmer times so that we can see what went wrong. Unfortunately, with just 20 minutes of screen time there’s only so far you can flash back, and things go downhill pretty quickly.

Sharon Hope is Desi, who has been forced to move in with her son and family – we don’t find out why – and very soon she’s locking horns with them about her treatment of child Rex (Jaiden Smith). The problem with the little darling is that he has no boundaries, his parents encouraging such a liberal upbringing that he can do what he wants, including destroying his grandmother’s religious property.

Desi practices Haitian voodoo as a force for positive, and she recognises that Rex is a little devil (literally). He professes to his parents that he wants to learn about the old ways, but it’s nothing to do with respecting the past – he wants to exploit the weaknesses, with fatal consequences.

Verdict: In a neat reversal in the usual trope, voodoo is seen as the pure force here, and it’s the refusal of the second generation Haitians to embrace it that lets the real evil force into the home. The ‘devil kid’ is nothing new in horror media, but there’s enough of a twist here to suggest even the old tales can be given a polish. 8/10

Nick Joy