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* AbusiveParents: Their neighbor admits that he once beat his son with ''a tyre chain!'' Of course, he did catch the boy torturing a small animal... He's deeply remorseful about it though, as the boy disappeared and that was his last memory of him. [[spoiler: It seems to have took, as when we finally meet him-Eugene-he's too timid to hurt a fly]].
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''Housebound'' is a 2014 New Zealand horror comedy film written and directed by Gerard Johnstone, about a woman who is sentenced to house arrest in her mother's home. Not long after moving back in, she starts to suspect that the house may be haunted by the spirit of a murder victim.
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* SecretSquatter: [[spoiler: Kylie's mother's house used to be a halfway house where a girl was once murdered. After a series of unexplained events, the protagonists believe the house is either haunted by the girl's ghost or secretly inhabited by her very alive killer. It's neither. The man in the walls, Eugene, is a severe recluse hiding from his abusive father, and he's been trying to help Kylie find the real killer. Unusually for this trope, once Eugene helps save the family, they are happy to have him continue living in the walls.]]
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* InnocentBigot: Kylie's mother, who otherwise comes off as nice and likable, is surprised that one of the officers assigned to Kylie's case is so well-spoken, because she's Maui. Kylie gives her a mild WhatTheHellHero for this, pointing out that the woman is obviously educated and works for the police department, so of ''course'' she's smart.
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* InnocentBigot: Kylie's mother, who otherwise comes off as nice and likable, is surprised that one of the officers assigned to Kylie's case is so well-spoken, because she's Maui.Maori. Kylie gives her a mild WhatTheHellHero for this, pointing out that the woman is obviously educated and works for the police department, so of ''course'' she's smart.
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* HauntedHouse: Kylie's family house is revealed to be a halfway-house where a young lady was murdered. [[spoiler: Subverted when it turns out to be [[{{hikikomori}} a madman living in the walls]] rather than a ghost responsible for all the unexplained happenings.]] [[spoiler: Although she does wake up Kylie when she's stunned in the climax]].
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* HauntedHouse: Kylie's family house is revealed to be a halfway-house where a young lady was murdered. [[spoiler: Subverted when it turns out to be [[{{hikikomori}} a madman living in the walls]] rather than a ghost responsible for all the unexplained happenings.]] [[spoiler: Although she does wake up Kylie when she's stunned in the climax]].]]
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* AntiHero: Kylie, who starts the movie as a pretty severe JerkAss. She gets better, though.
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* HauntedHouse: Kylie's family house is revealed to be a halfway-house where a young lady was murdered. It's implied she's haunting the place, even after [[spoiler: TheReveal of Eugene.]]
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* GhostlyGoals: IF Elizabeth Amos suggests that Elizabeth's ghost is really haunting the family. She appears trying to scare help Kylie in the first spooky scene, seems to make the teddy bear work to provide clues, and woke Kylie and gave uncover her a toasting fork when murder. [[spoiler: Dennis gors berserk.Ultimately, he's almost right; it's just not Elizabeth's ghost who is doing it.]]
* HauntedHouse: Kylie's family house is revealed to be a halfway-house where a young lady was murdered.It's implied she's haunting the place, even after [[spoiler: TheReveal Subverted when it turns out to be [[{{hikikomori}} a madman living in the walls]] rather than a ghost responsible for all the unexplained ahppenings.]]
* IdiotSavant: [[spoiler: Eugene]] is a mechanical mastermind, but pretty much incapable ofEugene.]] functioning in society.
* HauntedHouse: Kylie's family house is revealed to be a halfway-house where a young lady was murdered.
* IdiotSavant: [[spoiler: Eugene]] is a mechanical mastermind, but pretty much incapable of
** Ironically, Miriam's actress herself is part-Maori, so this could be a case of StopBeingStereotypical.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: [[spoiler: Deconstructed. In the backstory, it's established that Elizabeth was indeed mentally ill and had violent outbursts, but the most shocking act of violence in the backstory was perpetrated against her, not by her. Similiarly, we're lead to believe that she was killed by IdiotSavant Eugene, but TheReveal is that her real killer was Dennis, a completely sane man, and the villain of the film, and Eugene, though extremely mentally ill, is ultimately a MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold.]]
* InsaneEqualsViolent: [[spoiler: Deconstructed. In the backstory, it's established that Elizabeth was indeed mentally ill and had violent outbursts, but the most shocking act of violence in the backstory was perpetrated against her, not by her. Similiarly, we're lead to believe that she was killed by IdiotSavant Eugene, but TheReveal is that her real killer was Dennis, a completely sane man, and the villain of the film, and Eugene, though extremely mentally ill, is ultimately a MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold.]]
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* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Two examples. Eugene and Dennis, who are stabbed in the back and fall off a roof, respectively. [[spoiler: Dennis punches Kylie out and starts strangling her mum,]] and the last scene shows that Eugene lived as well.
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* CreepyDoll: The second scary scene involves Kylie being menaced by a knockoff Teddy Ruxpin doll with low batteries, giving it a horribly distorted voice. It gets even creepier after she throws it in the fireplace.
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* CaptainErsatz: The robot teddy bear is one for Toys/TeddyRuxpin.
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* SayMyName: The film ends with an exasperated Kylie shrieking, [[spoiler:"EUGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENE!"]] before it cuts to the credits.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: [[spoiler:It's revealed Eugene has been spying on the family and drawing scenes of them, Kylie in particular, for years. However, his motive seems to be more loneliness and curiosity than anything, and he behaves more like an AnnoyingYoungerSibling than anything... despite being at least a couple decades ''older'' than her.]]
* StalkerWithoutACrush: [[spoiler:It's revealed Eugene has been spying on the family and drawing scenes of them, Kylie in particular, for years. However, his motive seems to be more loneliness and curiosity than anything, and he behaves more like an AnnoyingYoungerSibling than anything... despite being at least a couple decades ''older'' than her.]]
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* RearWindowInvestigation: Kylie suspects her neighbor of having [[spoiled:killed the girl who was living in her house when it was a halfway house. She even sneaks over to verify it]].
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Averted]]. Kylie stabs [[spoiler:Graeme, thinking he was the neighbor, but he survives the injury.
* ImplicitPrison: Kylie is under house arrest in her parent's house. It's implied that this is more punishment than prison would be.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Was the hand that grabbed Kylie's ankle [[spoiler:and handed her the carving fork]] Eugene? [[spoiler:Despite him having been stabbed in an earlier scene?]] Or was it the ghost?
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* CurseCutShort: Dennis's "F-" is cut off by [[spoiler: explosive decapitation]].
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: It turns out that [[spoiler: Eugene's]] creepy antics were attempts to [[spoiler: warn Kylie about the danger she was in.]]
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* YourHeadAsplode: A carving fork through the jaw doesn't kill [[spoiler: Dennis]], but that same fork hooked up to a car battery sure does.
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* CreepyBasement: The basement is full of life-size sculptures of saints. Human-shaped looming figures with overtones of bloody death? Thanks, those will cheer this basement right up.
* CreepyBasement: The basement is full of life-size sculptures of saints. Human-shaped looming figures with overtones of bloody death? Thanks, those will cheer this basement right up.
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