Movie Review: At Granny’s House (2015)

April 20, 2018

Written by DanXIII

Daniel XIII; the result of an arcane ritual involving a King Diamond album, a box of Count Chocula, and a copy of Swank magazine, is a screenwriter, director, producer, actor, artist, and reviewer of fright flicks…Who hates ya baby?

When Marion (Glenda Morgan Brown) has one “senior moment” too many, her son saddles her with a smoke show of a caregiver named Rebecca (Rachel Alig). This puts a bunch in Marion’s Depends, but she soon gets over it and her and Rebecca hit it off…and before long ol’ Becky has convinced our old ass friend to turn a room in her home into a sort of AirBnB for weary travelers. This would be all well and good, except Rachel is a Grade-A murder machine that offs any guest that displays sassitude…and she’s so damn good at it Marion doesn’t have a clue…though from what we learn from her son Marion would be apt to answer a banana and eat a phone. Things get more complicated when a married couple take up residence in the room…and by “complicated” I mean Rebecca convinces the husband, Ted (writer/director Les Mahoney) to kill his wife and become her partner in crime. Of course the local heat gets wise, and the relationship between Rebecca, Ted, and Marion comes to a head.
At Granny’s House is a well done suspense thriller. The plot is engaging, and moves at a good clip, the acting is strong with the three principles all turning in rock solid performances (though Alig was the standout for me going from sweet to deranged in the blink of an eye, without ever going completely over-the-top in her performance), and the tension mounts nicely as the body count grows. So what could possibly be wrong with the film?
Well…there is one big flaw with At Granny’s House, and that’s that the opening scene absolutely destroys one of the most suspenseful scenarios the film attempts to conjure, namely; will Rebecca chose to be loyal to Marion or Ted as the shit hits the fan. I have absolutely why Mahoney would choose to make this bizarre choice, but he did, and the film’s narrative takes a hit for it.
Minus the aforementioned misstep, At Granny’s House remains a well acted, tension filled thriller that is worth a look.
 

 


 
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