150 Words About . . . HOUSEBOUND (2014)
by James Newman
Housebound is a film I recommend to horror fans who don’t mind a few giggles with their goosebumps. In fact, that’s my only beef with this otherwise effective fright flick from New Zealand — I wish the folks who made Housebound had gone darker with it (even if the humor does work more often than it doesn’t). When perpetual delinquent Kylie is busted in the act of robbing an ATM, the courts sentence her to house arrest in her own personal hell: her mother’s home. If things weren’t bad enough already, once Kylie settles in, she starts seeing and hearing stuff that suggests the house where she grew up is now haunted. Housebound gets a tad too “Scooby-Doo” at times once our anti-heroine starts digging into the mystery of WTF’s going on, but there are worse ways you could spend 106 minutes. Overall, this one is a lot of fun.
