Fresh
The mishmash that results is by turns creepy, silly, inventive, darkly funny and, at one point, mind-blowingly bloody.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Housebound
Terror gets domesticated.
2014 · 1h 51m · NOT RATED
Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Gerard Johnstone
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Housebound
Overview
When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
97%
Tomatometer
Fresh
If Housebound is ultimately much more funny than scary, it's because O'Reilly's pugnacious performance runs so counter to the genre's usual treatment of women in peril.
Mike D'Angelo, AV Club
Fresh
Hard to categorize -- horror-comedy? mystery-thriller? -- but lots of fun to watch.
Chuck Wilson, Village Voice
Fresh
A welcome return to quirky Kiwi horror comedy with a juicy payoff.
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
A marvelously entertaining combo of haunted-house thriller, murder mystery and domestic comedy, Housebound marks a mighty impressive feature bow for Kiwi scripter-helmer-editor Gerard Johnstone.
Richard Kuipers, Variety
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