About this Event
Thursday, December 10th – 7:30 PM – SMALL THEATER
Santa Cruz Premiere – New Queer Irish Horror:
THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR, 2025, Fantastic Films / Antenna Releasing, 90 min. Dir. Glenn McQuaid.
“A wickedly funny, bloody and unapologetically queer film.” – William Earl, Variety
Part of the subversive wave of terrific new Irish horror, courtesy of director Glenn McQuaid (I SELL THE DEAD, V/H/S) and producers Fantastic Films in Dublin (VIVARIUM, SEA FEVER, NAILS), THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR makes its Santa Cruz premiere at The 418. Boyd Grayson (Chris Colfer) has made an art form of antagonizing his mother. A hedonistic pianist living off family wealth, he delights in parading his one-night stands through the estate, a reminder to Jacqueline (the always wonderful Alice Krige, from GHOST STORY, STAR TREK, CHARIOTS OF FIRE) that she'll never get the grandchildren she craves. When a freak accident leaves Boyd handless, Jacqueline installs experimental prosthetics wired to his subconscious, on the condition that he finally give her an heir. The hands take on a life of their own, even when detached from Boyd's body, and the body count at Grayson Manor begins to rise.
“Director Glenn McQuaid's The Restoration at Grayson Manor is a campy queer horror-comedy with a Gothic heart … Colfer and Krige go at each other with verbal ferocity, and McQuaid and co-writer Clay McLeod Chapman's script gives them plenty of ammunition. Cinematographer Narayan van Maele shoots the manor with a richness that mirrors the relationship at the film's core while echoing James Whale's The Old Dark House. Part Gothic nightmare, part black comedy, The Restoration at Grayson Manor is a cult classic in the making.” – Colleen O’Holleran, Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)
Ticket Price: $10 advance / $15 door.
Doors open at 7 PM, film at 7:30 PM at The 418 Project, 155 South River Street, downtown Santa Cruz at the Dragons Gate.
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The 418 Project, 155 S River Street, Santa Cruz, United States
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