During last year’s Fantastic Fest we uncovered several genre gems, and one of them – Homebound, is about to continue its festival journey with a screening at this month’s FrightFest Glasgow. The annual event sits neatly inside Glasgow Film Festival, hijacking the festival to share some of the best and brightest new dark delights. Written and directed by Sebastian Godwin, Homebound is a perfect example of less being more. Godwin’s feature debut seamlessly works in family paranoia and anxieties into the fairly standard scenario of meeting your partner’s family.
Homebound reunites Mr. Selfridge stars Aisling Loftus and Tom Goodman-Hill where this time around they play couple Holly and Richard. When Richard decides to take Holly home to meet his three estranged children, Lucia (Hattie Gotobed), Ralph (Lukas Rolfe), and Anna (Raffiella Chapman), they soon discover that his ex-wife is missing and the children are behaving strangely. As their actions become gradually more disturbing, Holly begins to unearth a dark and twisted secret.
Emerging from Film London’s Microwave Project, Sebastian Godwin’s feature debut is remarkably constructed and is an effortless masterclass in generating tension. From the opening encounter with Richard’s children to the shocking conclusion, Homebound consistently builds palpable unease as Godwin layers on more and more from scene to scene. It really is a remarkable film and one that we’ve been keen for wider audiences to see since we caught it at Fantastic Fest. Ahead of the screening at FrightFest Glasgow we spoke with Sebastian to get some more details about the thought and intent that went into creating this brilliant British psychological chiller.
Homebound plays FrightFest Glasgow on 11 March, tickets for the screening can be purchased here. Homebound arrives in cinemas across the UK on 1st April and will be released on Digital HD on 4th April 2022.
