Housebound (2014)

The best haunted-house film you may not have heard of. A surly young woman is sentenced to home detention in her mother's creaky New Zealand house, and the comedy is domestic: a mother who never stops talking, and a man monitoring her ankle bracelet who turns out to be a ghost enthusiast. Writer-director Gerard Johnstone stages the bumps in the night with real patience, then folds in a murder mystery that keeps shifting the ground. Rima Te Wiata as the mother steals every scene.