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Grafted (2024)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When an awkward but brilliant Chinese student wins a scholarship into a prestigious New Zealand University, she finds a new way of achieving the popularity she craves one bloody body at a time.
Style:
psychological horror, tense, dark, intense, slasher, transgressive, dark comedy, psychological thriller
Plot:
body horror, obsession, graphic violence, college campus, isolation, manipulation, alienation, exchange student, peer pressure, social isolation, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, teacher student sex, female murderer, student, revenge, youth culture, murder, killer as protagonist, teacher student relationship, experiment gone awry, identity theft, psychological drama, birthmark, scholarship
Time:
contemporary
Place:
new zealand
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