Housebound (2014)

Horror Queers

Film Reviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 854 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Check your ankle monitor, grab your cheese grater and prepare for lockdown because we're heading to New Zealand to discuss Gerard Johnstone's hilarious comedy horror film Housebound (2014)! Join us as we discuss Johnstone's background in television before looking at the film through Philip Brophy's not-so-household term "horrality." Then we pretty much just spend the rest of the episode laughing at the endless barrage of hilarious scenes that Housebound throws our way! Plus: Famous Amos, a lesson on how to navigate Rotten Tomatoes, Trace learns about commonwealths (and Coronation Street!) and Joe's real-life New Zealand horror story involving....an apple? Questions? Comments? Snark? Connect with the boys on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Letterboxd and/or Facebook, or join the Facebook Group to get in touch with other listeners > Trace: @tracedthurman > Joe: @bstolemyremote Be sure to support the boys on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bring Home Smile 2 on Digital Now. In this terrifying thriller, an unknown force has latched on to global pop star Sky Riley as reality and her nightmares collide. By the film critics are calling the scariest movie of the year by a mile and get over 40 minutes of bone-chilling extras, including deleted scenes and more.
0:24.4	Available at participating retailers, rated R from Paramount Pictures.
0:32.9	Good morning, afternoon or evening, and welcome to the Bloody Disgusting Network.
0:40.3	The following show is just horrifying.
0:45.6	Beware.
0:50.2	Music Sheriff, you're not cheating on your wife if you eat my lemon square.
1:03.2	Your lemon squares taste like ass.
1:15.5	And welcome back to horror queers.
1:18.2	We're talking three-quarter scale Jesus.
1:21.4	We're talking kitchen sink ghost mysteries.
1:24.4	And we're talking, hello, Moldo.
1:25.8	And I'm Joe.
1:27.4	And I'm Trace. And we're talking one really gnarly exploding head effect.
1:32.0	Oh, my God. It's on par with scanners, isn't it? And so unexpected.
1:37.0	Oh, 100%. I mean, it's cut to where it's like, it's not maybe as impressive as scanners, but that the aftermath of it is just,
1:45.5	who boy.
1:46.6	So everyone, we are talking 2014's housebound this week as part of our underrated or
1:53.8	underseen series that we are running for the beginning of 2022.
1:57.1	And I got to say, I have a hunch this is going to be in the underseen category.
2:02.7	Indeed.
2:03.3	Yeah, we were talking about this off air.
2:05.2	It seems like if people have seen this film, they often really, really like it.
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