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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