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Beauty is only skin deep.
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.
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Grafted
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New ZealandR16
New Zealand International Film Festival
25 Sep 2024
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France12
Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival
05 Oct 2024
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Spain
Sitges Film Festival
06 Oct 2024
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Australia
Monster Fest
Theatrical
12 Sep 2024
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New ZealandR16
21 Nov 2024
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AustraliaMA 15+
Physical
02 Apr 2025
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AustraliaMA 15+
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Australia
06 Oct 2024
- Premiere Monster Fest
21 Nov 2024
- TheatricalMA 15+
02 Apr 2025
- PhysicalMA 15+
France
25 Sep 2024
- Premiere12 Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival
New Zealand
08 Aug 2024
- PremiereR16 New Zealand International Film Festival
12 Sep 2024
- TheatricalR16
Spain
05 Oct 2024
- Premiere Sitges Film Festival
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NZIFF #1
Absolutely love how that prosthetic snaggletooth ended up getting passed around the cast like a blunt
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The Substance meets Mean Girls with a refreshing touch of New Zealand flavour. With the creative narrative and outrageous depictions of gore, it is something truly original. When this releases internationally, it will find its cult audience.
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I hate to be a hater especially of nz cinema but this was so frustrating…. On paper everything i want a nz genre film to be and yet fails at so much. Commendable for its effects work and visuals on a comparatively low budget but a lot lets it down- acting, script, even just its own ideas start flailing around half an hour in, and without much of a structure it all falls apart. Wish i loved you but this was rough to watch.
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Before y’all read any further, please note I was off my face on an edible when I watched Grafted and obviously still high when I wrote this, also idk why some ppl r being such haters… so.. um.. anywhom..
Not to reduce a movie to people’s looks, but if the guy who played Wei’s dad is into 24 year old tatted up blonde ‘twinks’, please pass him my number. I need him so bad… (I feel corny saying that, but sometimes I need to put my truth out there)And not to mention the girls were so pretty too. Y’know that Bella Hadid tweet that’s like, “Prolly make a gay man reconsider 😌” .. well that’s how I felt seeing them,…
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It's the rest of the world that's ugly.
Opening with a haunting pre-credits scene in which a scientist uses a serum to fix a scar on his face that has an unexpected impact on his mouth, this body horror outing from New Zealand gets off to an electrifying start. As the movie continues, it subsequently focuses on the scientist's daughter who becomes intent on carrying on her father's research as a university student with a personal goal of fixing a birthmark on the side of her face. With a slight buck tooth in addition to the facial scarring, she has difficulty being accepted among her peers though and after an accident, she suddenly gets the bright idea of grafting not…
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I can definitely see why Shudder picked this up for distribution overseas (derogatory). 🙃
I can always forgive technical shortcomings on account of a low budget and directorial debut, but at least give me a confident voice and vision. This thing hit just about every branch on the cliché tree as it stumbled over itself and fell down… How did it take four people to write this!? 😳
Are first gen kids really still this ashamed of their heritage? I thought it was a 90s period piece for a second with the way Angela was behaving! I mean, I came of age as a mixed-race first gen kid 20 years ago now (and I’m South Asian, not East Asian,… -
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NZIFF #2
in the word(s) of tatianna from rupaul’s drag race … choices 😗🫣