Gerard Johnstone’s Housebound poster paints a creepy portrait

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

One of the few genre films to have slipped under our radar that will be screening at the SXSW Film Festival next week is Gerard Johnstone’s HOUSEBOUND, a pretty cool sounding haunted house flick. Badass Digest recently got their hands on the film’s festival poster and I think you guys are going to dig it. With the tagline: terror gets domesticated, the poster presents a hand painted family portrait with a rather creepy ghoul jumping in for shits and giggles. Dig it below!

HOUSEBOUND is directed by Gerard Johnstone and stars Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru, Cameron Rhodes, Millen Baird, Ross Harper, Bruce Hopkins, Ryan Lampp, Ian Mune and Wallace Chapman.

Kylie Bucknell is forced to return to the house she grew up in when the court places her on home detention. Her punishment is made all the more unbearable by the fact she has to live there with her mother Miriam – a well-intentioned blabbermouth who’s convinced that the house is haunted. Kylie dismisses Miriam’s superstitions as nothing more than a distraction from a life occupied by boiled vegetables & small town gossip. However, when she too becomes privy to unsettling whispers & strange bumps in the night, she begins to wonder whether she’s inherited her overactive imagination, or if the house is in fact possessed by a hostile spirit who’s not particularly thrilled about her return.