Last year, when everyone and their hotter, younger selves were praising “The Substance,” another excellent body horror film swept the film festival circuit. From New Zealand director Sasha Rainbow, comes “Grafted,” which finally gets a US release this week on Shudder. Her candy-coated fable, about a lonely outsider trying to assimilate (in more ways than one) was one of my favorite films of last year. Rainbow talked to Macabre Daily about the making of the film, and how she “graduated” from shorts to her first feature. Check it out!
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Sure, we love the occasional snowfall and the quiet majesty of watching a sunset through a stand of trees, but those are fleeting, and we need something to get our hearts racing to fight the cold. Luckily, the beginning of the year has some incredible new films sure to melt not only the ice but your freaking face!
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Much like Hansel, sci-fi body horror is so hot right now. From “The Substance,” “Alien: Romulus,” to the Frankenstein-like stories of “Birth/Rebirth,” “Poor Things,” and, well, “Lisa Frankenstein,” there’s been a glut of recent films about the minutiae of our bodies and how they can be manipulated and transformed. Entering the arena is “Grafted,” a gnarly tale of an outsider taking her place in an indifferent world, one face at a time.
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Sasha Rainbow's satirical body horror film, "GRAFTED" is picked up by Shudder ahead of the premiere at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain!
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