Housebound

This New Zealand horror/comedy nimbly jumps through the tropes, and inventively subverts them along the way.

"...at work. The latest export, Gerard Johnstone’s feature debut Housebound, continues this tradition with marvelous aplomb...."

Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

SXSW Gets Housebound

Director Gerard Johnstone opens the door on the New Zealand shriekfest

"...be busted by someone like TV's Ghosthunters? According to Housebound director Gerard Johnstone, "There's something incredibly funny about people..."

March 11, 2014 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Krampus

This horror-comedy brings a demon to the holiday gathering

"...unloved in-laws (Koechner and Tolman) arrive and everyone becomes housebound by a blizzard. Koechner is fine as the football-crazed..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

M3GAN

A yassified Chucky for the iPad Kid generation

"...Gerard Johnstone of another cult favorite of the 2010s, Housebound, in retrospect M3GAN always seemed poised to be a..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Dead

Comedy about raising the dead doesn't raise too many laughs

"...odd outburst of goo, that's made sticky-funny faves like Housebound and What We Do in the Shadows so internationally..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

What We Do in the Shadows

Cleverly executed, this vampire spoof by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, is a lot of fun.

"...double-bill with another recent Kiwi genre parody: the ghostly Housebound...."

Feb. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Gives Us the Horns

Daniel Radcliffe's latest heads up final wave of films

"...of some FF alums. So welcome again, Gerard Johnstone's Housebound, Adam Barrett and Simon Wingard's The Guest, and Nacho..."

Sept. 10, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Elijah Wood and Ant Timpson Turn Over a New Leaf in Bookworm

The Come to Daddy team make a very different family flick

"...to recommend to the right audiences” like Deathgasm and Housebound. After that, making a family movie “still doesn’t feel..."

Oct. 18, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish

Anime adaptation of bittersweet romance adds a little honeyed soap

"...wheelchair from an unnamed disease or accident, she’s basically housebound by a grandmother who confuses love with control, and..."

July 9, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival: The Sideways Light

Home with the family, both living and passed

"...palette as another recent haunted house-movie, the black comedy Housebound, writer/director Jennifer Harlow tries for a much more melancholic..."

Oct. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hard Candy

Metaphorically speaking, Little Red Riding Hood eats Humbert Humbert in this story of an online predator and his jailbait, gamine prey.

"...and, as the unspeakable revelations stack up and the housebound (literally so) tête-à-tête turns grimly conversational, it's clear that..."

April 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Star Maps

"...revered Mexican comedian Cantinflas. His other son is a housebound horror who does nothing but watch TV, masturbate, dress..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jenna Davis, The Voice of M3GAN

Texas actor talks about changing from straight horror to comedy

"...story by Insidious creator James Wan, and directed by Housebound's Gerard Johnstone ("Mister Gerard," as Davis politely insists on..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Cesária Évora

A loving portrait of the late-blooming singer

"...for Portuguese soldiers, before an intense depression kept her housebound for a decade...."

March 14, 2022 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

Five Things to Do Indoors This New Year's Weekend

From unmissable books to housebound horticulture, fill up your indoor Hogmanay

Dec. 31, 2021 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

12 New TV Shows to Watch in January

Plus another dozen returning shows to reacquaint yourself with

"...The Marvel Cinematic Universe is just as housebound as you and me these days, as evidenced by..."

Dec. 29, 2020 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Public Notice: EDU Tidbits

Plenty of school news, even though school’s out for now

"...available at AustinTexas.gov/COVID19. See the mobile schedule there, or housebound folks now can call 512/972-5560 to schedule a home..."

June 19, 2020 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Austin Arts Happenings Online: A Chronicle Round-up for Your Quarantined Exploration

Live and creative diversions – from your talented friends & neighbors

"...MUSEUMS from all over the world. But right now, housebound & missing the ‘hood, we’re totally loving the local..."

March 23, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...when Lee encouraged the couple to connect with a "housebound" single lesbian mother with three kids. "She wanted our..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

DVDanger: I Hear Voices

Horror elevated aurally by Henry Rollins and Jeffrey Combs

"...is part spook show, part hidden-room horror à la Housebound and The People Under the Stairs, with neither the..."

March 7, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: 'Among the Living'

'Stand by Me' and then die by me

"...Starting with 2007's gory, housebound nightmare Inside which was followed by 2011's equally chilling..."

March 13, 2014 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Releases Full Feature Lineup

Slate includes everyone from Wes Anderson to the Zellners

"...Housebound (New Zealand) Director/Screenwriter: Gerard Johnstone When Kylie Bucknell is..."

Jan. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

The Fuse Is Lit

The lineup for Fusebox Festival 2013 has been announced

"...has remixed The Iliad into Phone Homer, in which housebound Clytemnestra takes Skype calls from Agamemnon, Helen, Penelope, and..."

Jan. 30, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

From Soup to Nuts (Hold the Nuts)

A hardly comprehensive look at Austin's soup scene

"...may conjure up images of convalescence and being generally housebound, there's a surprising amount of gustatory pleasure to be..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Point Austin: Giving Thanks

In a dark time, among us walk ordinary heroes

"...of other Chicagoans. Near the end, he was mostly housebound, and I suspect he voted absentee. Terkel had been..."

Nov. 28, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Happenings

Nov. 22-28

"...More needs help preparing and delivering meals to Austin's housebound elderly and disabled. Training begins 10:30am; delivery starts at..."

Nov. 23, 2007 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...able to work and maintain families; the sickest are housebound for years...."

Aug. 5, 2005 Column

Jokes Are Old and Tired

"...able to work and maintain families; the sickest are housebound for years. I fall between the extremes, operating at..."

Aug. 1, 2005 Postmarks

Perdita

Perdita, playwright Monika Bustamante's chilling exploration of what can happen when loss barrels its way through everyday lives, is one of the most tightly crafted and beautifully written works of the year, and its production at Hyde Park Theatre is of sterling quality.

"...working her prickly charm as Goldie, Stee and Luce's housebound neighbor. Cyndi Williams and David Jones are convincingly creepy..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

After a Fashion

You'll have to know when to hold 'em at the 10th anniversary of the fabulous VIVA! Las Vegas charity event; Remedy's love heals; and West Lynn's local indie retailers could use some of your love now that street construction has finally ended.

"...before; when I was so injured as to be housebound a couple of years ago, she regularly came by..."

June 13, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

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