Grummy
Directed by R.H. Norman and Micheline Pitt-Norman
Starring: Violet McGraw, Alexander Ward, and Tom Degnan
Channel: Micheline Pitt
Uploaded October 29, 2024
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Logline: A young girl's flight from an abusive childhood into the amber fields, and long fangs, of her imagination.
Stills taken from Grummy (2021) Review by Paul Catalanotto
Grummy is an exceptional movie about a difficult subject matter. In clumsy hands, storylines about abuse can feel exploitative and uncomfortable in all the wrong ways.
Grummy sidesteps this by casting Violet McGraw as Sarah. She carries the film and delivers an emotional and heartfelt performance. The filmmakers also cleverly hide the ugliness beneath a beautifully realized fantasy world, a choice that makes the difficult aspects of this film more digestible.
Comments are disabled for this movie, which seems odd in this world, but after viewing it, I feel it’s a necessary choice.
The story is about a young girl who retreats into an imaginary world with her imaginary best friend, Grummy. The fantasy world is fantastically designed, and when the real-world terrors creep in, it’s startling and terrifying. The dad enters, yelling and screaming, and hints at things that no parent wants to hear.
Grummy comes to save the day, but things still feel wrong and unresolved. And that’s the real horror here. The real world presented in the movie is never revealed to be a dream, but it’s hard to believe it isn’t. The real world here is the nightmare. The dad is a manifestation of a real monster that’s still alive and waiting.
That’s more terrifying than the entire Universal Monster lineup.
This movie has led to other opportunities for the directing duo, and it’s easy to see why. Their VHS Halloween short closes the trilogy, and it’s easy to see why they’re gaining attention.
Movies like this require courage. And courageous filmmakers should be rewarded, lauded, and encouraged. I look forward to what’s next and recommend this short. But know what you are getting into.
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