After her younger sister’s illness is declared to be incurable and terminal, an imaginative teenager is sent, together with her sister, to stay with their domineering and sinister grandmother, while her parents go in search of a less traditional cure. But the grandmother has an agenda of her own…
Grimmfest Says: The new film from Isaac Ezban sees him moving away from the Twilight Zone style Sci-Fi weirdness that characterised earlier films such as THE SIMILARS, THE INCIDENT and PARALLEL and turning his talents to something more… traditional: a flamboyantly full-blooded Old School Latin Gothic horror shocker; the kind of film that is unafraid to crank everything right up to eleven, but is none the worse for it. Because, for all its sound and fury, there is smartness and subtlety here, too. This is a master filmmaker working his effects with real intelligence and sophistication, building on the fairytale premise of the two children and the malignant witch with an understanding both of genre tradition and of the power and resonance of myth and fable that calls to mind the best work of Guillermo Del Toro or Angela Carter. Beautifully shot and staged, with truly jaw-dropping production design and location work, stunning, mostly practical vfx, and remarkable performances from the two young leads, who prove more than a match for Mexican screen legend Ofelia Medina as the Grandmother from Hell, it’s a dark and deadly delight; a truly Grimm(fest) Fairy Tale.