#housebound 2014

[mythtakens]

Housebound (2014) dir. Gerard Johnstone

[gardensinner]

Just watched housebound 2014 and I gotta say I FUCKING LOVED IT

Practical effects, funny as fuck crappy cgi in the end. Literally hilarious, but also scary, and the ending was amazing, and the COSTUME AND MAKEUP FOR EUGENE WAS AMAZING gave me beetlejuice vibes. I kept on getting surprised by who the bad guy actually was! Surprise found family in the creepiest way? Hells yeah.

I do have a fav. Although Kylie is second fav, I love pathetic asshole women.

[splatteronmywalls]

[hannahwatcheshorror]

HOUSEBOUND (2014)

 💁‍♀️Strong Female Lead

A pretty well rounded horror movie! Surprises and turns only from the fact that we are all used to the same sort of story. A neat twist that didn’t make me feel jipped, just excited. It isn’t a revolutionary film, but it’s a good horror movie that feels satisfying to watch and discover the secrets.

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

Girl is finding freaky stuff in her house, turns out, some dude has been living in the walls and is actually trying to help her and her family. It’s fucky, especially when you want it to be about ghosts but it's scary humans instead. I originally gave it 5 stars on Netflix but, fam, I think I would remember this movie more if it was really worth 5 stars.

[allsadnshit]

My co worker showed me how to set up my voicemail box after a decade of not having one and to my surprise an entire decade of voicemails started coming in. I was listening to the ones from 2014 and it was so many missed moments. My step mom trying to call me during my dads first intervention. I thought she just never said anything. A really happy loving voicemail of my old best friend singing he misses me was wanted to hang out. A million voice messages from my nai nai saying she just wanted to touch base. My first coffee manager telling me I got the job. My first art curator asking if I had anything I wanted to sell.

It took me all my energy at work not to have a complete mental breakdown.

I've been talking so much about grief this year because to my surprise, finally feeling safe and finally starting to process a lifetime of stunted emotions has been the most painful and joyful thing I've ever experienced. No one tells you when your mind and body protect you from harm with disassociation that when you finally come out of it, you will be left alone with all your feelings and the moment will have passed. I feel like I've let everyone I ever loved down, especially when I got sick. I feel like everyone watched my become emotionally unavailable and unable to trust, and pulled away with every hard thing that happened to me this last decade and now the truth is I don't have any friends. No one made it through the wreckage, and I am second guessing if I even did now. I stopped being able to eat anything, go out, or even look my loved ones in the eye my last few years in my hometown and then I feel like I acted so rashly and so emotionally manic calling crying after not talking for months and they must have thought I was so unstable and selfish and now I am scared that's a fair description.

I feel like I wasn't myself for a really long time and nothing could get through to me even though I was desperate for connection. Family, friends, relationships all passed me by and I left everyone disappointed and confused while my chronic pain got worse and cycled into violence with my undiagnosed ocd keeping me housebound.

I feel like I am a million miles away by the time I am turning around hearing my name called out, and all I can do is stand there knowing it's an echo by now.

I don't understand why I am so bad at showing people I love them and need them. Even as I unravel it all in therapy, does it even matter when it's too late? I feel inconsolable and like I've never once been able to make the people who mattered to me felt like they did and now I am too scared to try.

So I'm gonna go home and eat dinner

[watermelinoe]

Any horror movie recs for the season?

yessss i am so glad you asked >:3c

horror comedy

shaun of the dead (2004): romantic comedy with zombies tucker & dale vs. evil (2010): hillbillies mistaken for killers by some college kids the cabin in the woods (2011): pokes fun at horror tropes but also has some genuinely scary moments fright night (1985): cult classic vampire film, it's a comedy to me an american werewolf in london (1981): werewolf horror comedy cult classic housebound (2014): haunted house horror comedy with a twist the menu (2022): i thought it was funny ok

creature features

alien (1979) and aliens (1986): sigourney weaver being sexy for 4+ hours and also there's aliens jaws (1975): you know, the big fish, the musical fish crawl (2019): surprisingly fun movie with alligators tremors (1990): kevin bacon vs underground monsters the thing (1982): in which there is a Thing

feminist themes and/or woman-centric

the invisible man (2020): elisabeth moss is a woman who believes her abusive ex-husband is not really dead his house (2020): a refugee couple from south sudan deal with racism and a haunted house the haunting (1963): based on shirley jackson's the haunting of hill house (and i do recommend the mike flanagan miniseries as well) the descent (2005): all-female cast becomes trapped underground with monsters the night house (2020): another "horror as metaphor" where a woman deals with the aftermath of her husband's death last night in soho (2021): college fashion student realizes the sixties had a dark side pearl (2022): a movie about a totally normal woman the love witch (2016): horror comedy tribute to 1960s flicks saint maud (2019): titular character becomes obsessed with saving the soul of her patient a girl walks home alone at night (2014): persian-language black-and-white vampire movie the boy (2016): creepy doll movie with a twist gothika (2003): halle berry plays a woman accused of murdering her husband what lies beneath (2000): starring michelle pfeiffer as a woman uncovering her husband's dark secret

some movies that actually scared me (ymmv):

the autopsy of jane doe (2016): father-son coroner duo attempts to establish the cause of death of an unidentified woman insidious (2010): comatose child has summoned The Horrors sinister (2012): true-crime writer finds a box of homemade snuff films the conjuring (2013): rural family gets haunted and must seek the help of vera farmiga and patrick wilson aterrados (2017): argentinian supernatural horror film

it's hard for me to say what's scary because what scared me as a kid or as a teenager a decade or more ago may not be scary for adults or by today's standards, i will say that in recent years the ones on this list that had me the most tense were the invisible man (2020) and the night house (2020)

[retourne-toi-eurydice]

i was tagged by @kissingmonsters to list 7 comfort films 🎬 thank youuu!

1.Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019, dir. Céline Sciamma) because it's my favourite

2. Housebound (2014, dir. Gerard Johnstone) because cringe personal reason

3. Giselle (2014, Royal Opera House) because i will never, ever tire of it

4. Hot Fuzz (2007, dir. Edgar Wright) because i'm English

5. Alice in Wonderland (2010, dir. Tim Burton) because it changed my life (i was 12)

6. Knives Out (2019, dir. Rian Johnson) because everything you want to happen happens

and finally...

7. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005, dir. Steve Box & Nick Park) because it's just so fucking funny

here are my no-strings-attached 7 tags, if you fancy it!: @gavetheflamingswordaway @a4chocolate @hammerhouse @almost-born-in-1893 @parnagfegg @whizbang-cap (i may have double tagged someone here)

[magz]

Am get the criticism about the "global strikes" being made with "little preparation, little fallback, and not much community-strong effort" -

This one being planned on Twitter by a non-palestinian with even less traction and even more disorganized than previous ones - and Bisan and other regular Palestinians saying to do anything Now Now while crying and dying

But to get what we need to do better, would have had to established and prepared *months* - *years* before the genocide against Palestinians got to this stage again.

Which wasn't the case on a worldwide platform with this fervor, even wider than in 2011 and 2014 when we were a kid n started being aware of this stuff.

So with these criticisms - establish as much as possible and make an effective alternative to these strikes made in desperation. Use your knowledge for benefit of the cause, and apply it so it can do change.

Find people with more influence, your unions, your strike funds and bailout funds, the everything that you are able to identify as a weakness in these attempts and strengthen it.

Use that energy for the cause if you're able to, in a reasonable time frame before the damage is too huge (it's already very awful as-is). And don't let it become just repeating discourse on a dying social media platform.

Am multiply disabled with degenerative conditions. Housebound n at-risk in D.R. (not united states nor canada nor u.k.), don't have a real job, don't have these contacts either. so am acknowledging own limits in "truly contributing" that aspect and irl praxis. Am only doing what am able to, because it's the what can do in any way.

[kurgy]

hey. hey. in WHAT movie is there a guy in the walls who helps them find the killer?????????????

Housebound (2014)

[mythtakens]

Housebound (2014) dir. Gerard Johnstone

[cipheramnesia]

Hey, I think you're good at posting and smart! I would watch all the horror movies you recommend if I wasn't such a scaredy cat

You should still watch Housebound (2014) because it's incredibly good, very funny, and will make you smile at the end.

[dio-the-thot-exterminator]

Can I have a list of some of your favorite obscure horror movies so I can watch them at some point?

Of course! hehe not sure how obscure these films actually are, but I like them, and people don’t talk about them enough 😞

Housebound (2014) [so fun, so silly!]

Die Säge des Todes (1981)

Ticks (1993) [YEEEAH buggies]

Starry Eyes (2014) [god tier blood, grime, and UNEASE]

The Suckling (1990) [yummy creature design]

Broken (2006)

The Initiation of Sarah (1978)

The Beast Within (1982)

Terror Train (1980) [i like miss jamie <3]

The Premonition (1976)

The Unborn (1991)

Squirm (1976) [more bugs! cute lil worms]

Don't Go In The House (1979)

Satan’s Little Helper (2004)

Prophecy (1979)

We Are What We Are (2013)

Don’t Go Into The Woods (1981)

Graduation Day (1981)

The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

Jason X (2001) [This movie is solid! Everyone’s such a hater 😡]

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Oh! Then I have some films that are more popular.

The Brood (1979)

Tokyo Gore Police (2008) [mouth watering practical effects!!!]

A Reflection Of Fear (1973)

Trouble Every Day (2001) [This actress man, just WOW]

Repulsion (1965)

Pieces (1982)

Triangle (2009)

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Now I wouldn't call these obscure but i like them so much, and any chance I get, I will tell people to watch them 🥺🥺

Possession (1981) [One of my favourite movies of all time! The story, the acting, the effects UGH. Gagged me for sure.]

Dead Alive/Braindead (1992) [Honestly up there with Possession. So good but in a completely different way. It’s high camp, high gore, and it felt like i was high while watching it]

Lake Mungo (2008) [A movie that actually scared me while i was watching it, and stuck with me for a good week. Triggered my fight or flight like no other. rawr]

No One Lives (2012) [This would run all the time when I had cable. And I'd sit and watch it every time this came on. There are...certain scenes that are just burned into my mind]

The Cell (2000) [I don’t even know what to say. The visuals in this movie are just SO GOOD. I want to tongue kiss the entire art direction team. The costumes, the cinematography, it’s so creative and so lovely]

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I have to give a mini shout out to Lucio Fulci, he is my favourite director. Period. If you’re interested in his movies [some focus on zombie, slasher, Giallo] his Gates of Hell Trilogy is always a good start!

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Ah alright now onto production companies [yay? Woohoooo??]

Troma. Fucking Troma, a lot of the movies they make are gross, stupid and cheap. So if you want something that’s absurd but still strangely entertaining. I’d recommend looking through their catalog of movies, picking a random one and seeing what happens.

Full Moon Features <3 If you want some film series, I’d recommend Puppet Master and Subspecies! [I’ve seen every Subspecies]. Full Moon has a lot of killer doll and toy films. But they do branch out. Castle Freak kinda wild though.

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Ok i'm done now.

If you have any movie recs for me, send them my way :D

[ittakestwopod]

We mentioned our love of New Zealand horror in our latest episode - so here are some of our favourites! (These all at least have comedy elements because kiwis can't make horror without turning it into a horror comedy.)

Loop Track (2023) Dir. Tom Sainsbury A four-day journey turns into a fight for survival. This is a psychological thriller about Ian, who wants to get as far away from humanity as possible, into the New Zealand bush. Some other individuals get attached to him. And he has the feeling that they are being followed. Is that real though? Housebound (2014) Dir. Gerard Johnstone A young woman is forced to return to her childhood home after being placed under house arrest, where she suspects that something evil may be lurking.

The Frighteners (1996) Dir. Peter Jackson After a tragic car accident that kills his wife, a man discovers he can communicate with the dead, and he uses that gift to con people. However, when a demonic spirit appears, he may be the only one who can stop it from killing the living and the dead.

Black Sheep (2006) Dir. Jonathan King An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into bloodthirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.

What We Do in the Shadows (2014) Dir. Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are struggling with the mundane aspects of modern life, like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.

I've added these to a Letterboxd list also

[aggressivelyarospec]

rainbowsparkle-cake submitted:

“Housebound” (2014)

Thriller/horror film for Halloween! Romance-free. Does a good job of subverting expectations, in that the character who traditionally would be written as the bad guy is actually just a somewhat creepy person but with good intentions.

Additional Information: Comedy, Horror, Mystery Trailer:

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[cultofcreatures]

hiii thanks for rbing my horror recs post! here's your recs! :)

based on the wolf of snow hollow i'd recommend ready or not (2019), what we do in the shadows (2014), the return of the living dead (1985), werewolves within (2021), villains (2019), the final girls (2015), bodies bodies bodies (2022), scare me (2020), an american werewolf in london (1981), housebound (2014), cursed (2005) and harpoon (2019) because they're great fav horror comedies starring quirky chaotic characters. 

based on the platform i’d recommend snowpiercer (2013), cube (1997), parasite (2019), battle royale (2000), us (2019), fresh (2022), the hunt (2020) and the menu (2022) which all contain social commentary about privilege and power. 

based on the night house i'd recommend the lodge (2019), watcher (2022), the invisible man (2020), perfect blue (1997), the haunting (1963), let's scare jessica to death (1971) and resurrection (2022) about women struggling with paranoia and their grip on reality.

based on alien i'd recommend the thing (1982), sunshine (2007), the descent (2005), annihilation (2018), nope (2022), 10 cloverfield lane (2016) and event horizon (1997) because they're some of my fav isolated setting creature horrors.

based on get out i'd recommend the people under the stairs (1991), his house (2020), savageland (2015) and the blackening (2022) for horror with commentary about racial injustice, and black swan (2010), i see you (2019), the wailing (2016) and barbarian (2022) for very twisty gripping horror.

i'm honestly not very familiar with the vaporwave aesthetic/genre but i'd say i saw the tv glow (2024), it follows (2014), cam (2018) and videodrome (1983) have some vaporwave elements!

hope there's some you haven't seen yet! :)

Wow! Thank you for doing this! You really put a lot of work into it! I have seen some of them, and you're spot on with your descriptions! But there are definitely a few that I haven't seen and have added to my watchlist. Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.