Housebound – Wellington Film Society
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Gerard Johnstone, New Zealand, 2014 107 minutes R13 violence, horror scenes, offensive language.
Funny, suspenseful and freighted with fright bombs, Housebound could easily be the most energising fun you’ve ever had at a New Zealand movie. It’s a sensational debut for writer/director/editor Gerard Johnstone. A beat ahead of the savviest audience, he steers his film through variations of gothic horror and domestic comedy with the assurance of a genre-morphing native.
Morgana O’Reilly, her scowling face firing off at least 50 shades of pissed off, is Kylie, the awesomely delinquent heroine. Sentenced by the court to eight months’ home detention, and fitted with an ankle tracker to ensure she stays there, she’s set to make life hell for her mother, Miriam – an epitome of chirpy blather and assaulted propriety in Rima Te Wiata’s hilarious performance.
Hearing Miriam on talk radio confiding her anxieties about a supernatural presence in the house – which sure looks like it should have one – seems like the last straw for Kylie. Need we say that events in the attic will prove that Miriam’s not the total d*ck her daughter says she is?” - Bill Gosden, NZIFF 2014
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