

Housebound
“Terror gets domesticated.”
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.
Top Cast

Morgana O'Reilly
Kylie Bucknell

Rima Te Wiata
Miriam Bucknell

Glen-Paul Waru
Amos

Ross Harper
Graeme

Cameron Rhodes
Dennis

Millen Baird
Officer Grayson

Bruce Hopkins
Officer Carson

Ryan Lampp
Eugene

Ian Mune
Judge
Wallace Chapman
Hollis
Themes & Keywords
About Housebound
Housebound is a horror, comedy, thriller film released in 2014 exploring themes of superstition, haunted house, father-in-law, basement, house arrest, exploding head. Directed by Gerard Johnstone, it stars Morgana O'Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru. 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.
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Return to House on Haunted Hill(2007)
Eight years have passed since Sara Wolfe and Eddie Baker escaped the House on Haunted Hill. Now the kidnapped Ariel, Sara's sister, goes inside the house with a group of treasure hunters to find the statue of Baphomet, worth millions and believed to be the cause of the House's evil.

