[3] Kylie Bucknell, a troubled young woman, attempts to steal the safe from an ATM but she fails to escape and is arrested.

A security contractor, Amos, explains that Kylie's ankle monitor will alert the police if she ever leaves the premises of her mother's house.

When she confronts him with evidence that he was an intern at the halfway house, he attempts to kill Miriam and Kylie, while incapacitating Amos.

Months later, all have recovered, Amos removes Kylie's ankle monitor, and Eugene has seemingly become an accepted (albeit mostly unseen) member of the household.

The site's consensus reads: "Alternately hilarious, gross, and simply diverting, Housebound is the rare horror-comedy that delivers on both fronts.

[8] Fangoria praised the film, rating it at 3 out of 4 stars and stating that it "neatly carries some universal ideas about throwing away childish indignation and rebellion, and getting to know your parents as people with pasts and personal lives, not just nagging overseers.

"[9] Shock Till You Drop also gave Housebound a positive rating, as they considered it one of the highlights of South by Southwest.

[12] Chuck Bowen of Slant Magazine rated it 2.5/4 stars and wrote that each of the film's elements are "competently and engagingly orchestrated" but do not combine into a coherent whole.

[21] Original writer and director Gerard Johnstone is set with Dave Neustadter and Walter Hamada as executive producer for New Line.