A small-town sheriff and her deputy awaken to a changed world where blood drips from taps, people vanish, creatures roam the woods, and the dead rise as the town descends into chaos.
Grimmfest says: Imagine that the most sectarian, intolerant, vengeful, bigoted, bat-shit crazy version of American Fundamentalist Christianity is right after all; that only they are saved, with the other Christians damned as sinners, alongside unbelievers and members of other faiths. This is the bone-chilling concept of the latest film from the ferociously independent maverick Upstate New York filmmakers, the Adams Family. A laconic, middle aged female sheriff wakes up one Winter morning to discover that the world has quite literally turned to hell overnight, and it is up to her and her inexperienced young deputy to deal with the situation. Combining the harrowing existential horrors and moral and spiritual conundrums of Michael Tolkin’s cult classic, THE RAPTURE, with the deadpan tone and terse, smalltown characters of FARGO, this startling, challenging, astonishingly ambitious film is both darkly funny and genuinely nightmarish, offering a genuinely unusual, original, and utterly horrifying vision of the encroachment of hell upon the mortal world; mixing “zombie apocalypse” tropes, Cronenbergian body horror, and the hallucinogenic visions of Hieronymus Bosch, and then grounding it in an all too recognisably mundane paranoid post-COVID reality. And the scariest thing of all is that there are Fundamentalists out there who will believe it’s a documentary.