Housebound

Starring Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata and Glen-Paul Waru, Housebound was funded by the NZFC’s Escalator scheme, the film premiered to critical acclaim at Austin’s SXSW Festival in March 2014. In April,...
New Zealand Production
Feature 2014 Horror, Comedy 109.00 minutes
Blood duet
When wayward teen Kylie Bucknell is sent under house-arrest to live in the home she grew up in, she encounters something even more terrifying than her superstitious blabbermouth mother Miriam.
Dead by Dawn Film Festival
Audience Award
2014: SXSW (South By Southwest) Film Festival (World Premiere)
Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival
Chicago Critics Film Festival
Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival
Pifan (Puchon International Fantastic FF)
Fantasia Fest
Melbourne International Film Festival
Fantasy Film Fest
FrightFest
Slash Film Festival
Saskatoon Film Festival
Lund Fantastic Film Festival
Vancouver Film Festival
Sitges Film Festival
Kosmorama
Razor Reel Fancine
Black Bear Lodz
2015: Syfy Fest

Directors

Gerard Johnstone

Producers

Luke Sharpe

Screenplay Writers

Gerard Johnstone

Executive Producers

Ant Timpson
Michael Kumerich
Chris Lambert
Daniel Story

Cast

Morgana O'Reilly
Kylie Bucknell
Rima Te Wiata
Miriam Bucknell
Glen-Paul Waru
Amos

Crew

Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper | Music
Simon Riera | Director of Photography

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