Housebound

AroView: A home detainee is forced to move back into her old family house where she grapples with her neurotic mother and supernatural disturbances.

A confidently directed and cleverly constructed Kiwi horror-comedy, packed with far more wit and surprise than all-comers of late in this genre, its trump card being a sensational central performance from Morgana O’Reilly, who gleefully carries off her stroppy character with deadpan delivery and sex appeal.

“Funny, suspenseful and freighted with fright bombs, this could easily be the most energising fun you’ve ever had at a New Zealand movie.” ~NZIFF