The Grinn

2017
1h 36m

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3.9/10

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Cristiana DiPietro, Matthew Kalamane, Sarah Leight, Fred DiPietro, Sam Wallace III, Victor DiBartolomeo, John Carroll, and Michka Hawkins in The Grinn (2017)

Drama Horror Thriller

A man awakens in an empty house that he is unable to leave. Battling fatigue, injury and amnesia, and guided only by a cryptic voice on his phone, he begins piecing together fractured memori... Read allA man awakens in an empty house that he is unable to leave. Battling fatigue, injury and amnesia, and guided only by a cryptic voice on his phone, he begins piecing together fractured memories of the events that led him to be trapped. With a terrifying presence confining him insi... Read allA man awakens in an empty house that he is unable to leave. Battling fatigue, injury and amnesia, and guided only by a cryptic voice on his phone, he begins piecing together fractured memories of the events that led him to be trapped. With a terrifying presence confining him inside the house, he ultimately discovers a truth more horrifying than he could have ever imag... Read all

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IMDb RATING

3.9/10

278

YOUR RATING

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1interfacegaming

Don't waste your electricity watching this

The concept was okay. Done with better backing it could have been great. The actor playing Vance hopefully doesn't act as a full time job and has a career to fall back on. The actress playing Vera seemed very stale and unimpressive. Diana was acted possibly the best here but that doesn't mean good. The set up for the ending just seemed to drag on and this film could have been half an hour shorter and marketed as a student indy film and would have been better. The best acting comes from the baby who had no real acting skill, so it was an even playing field.

6ghaalakailinaa

Surprisingly good and interesting

When I started watching The Grinn I wasn't entirely sure what to expect, I admit. We are flooded nowadays by expensive but poorly executed, badly written movies of all genres, so sometimes finding a good movie with an interesting story might seem like a challenge. Luckily The Grinn did not disappoint me. Though low budget it focuses strongly on the story and its character, and through that it delivers an experience that a combination of well written script,an interesting story and good film directing should give. Would recommend it to those who expect more from a good movie than just high tech special effects with boring story behind it.

2danielmanson

I can respect it. But it's all over the place

Right, my brother decided to make me watch this and I want to punch him because of it. Like I said in the title I can respect this indie film for what it is, but the story is just all over the place. I understood the twists and the ending and so on, but it was just illustrated poorly. Don't want to delve into it in huge depth, but its like the director has tried to make this overly confusing for the sake of it. It's not a spoiler, because the character had no purpose, but there was a bloke in a mask. I can only assume he is representing something, but why? There's no point.

1nathanmanson

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The movie is called "The Grinn" because of the creature's face outside Vance's house, which has a large, unnerving grin. The name is an ironic pun because a grin typically connotes happiness, but the creature in the movie represents the opposite -death. This characteristic creates a playful contrast with this subject, an antagonist associated with death. Overall, the pun in the title visually represents the creature's face and generates a sense of irony and contrast.