Granny
Genre: Horror
Director: Susanne Bier
Writer: Andrew Doster
Cast: Levi Miller, Meg Foster, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Ashley Rickards, Brad Dourif
Plot: The film begins in the evening, with a man, Albert (Brad Dourif) who is leaving the room and locking the door properly. Shortly after, sinister noises begin to appear on the upper floors of the house. The door he had previously closed begins to move quickly, the man tries to keep it closed and to lock it again but he cannot and falls to the ground. The man's face is frightened and says "No no no, stay back ..". The man is thrown against the wall and then we see him fall ruinously from the stairs. The camera shows the bloody man's face and is presumed to have broken neck bone as well.
Simon (Levi Miller) is a boy who is watching an old horror movie on TV with his older sister, Maddie (Ashley Rickards), who is due to leave for an important photo shoot the next day. At the climax of the film, the phone starts ringing, making Maddie jump, who almost spits the popcorn in her mouth, making Simon chuckle for a moment. Maddie gives him a dirty look. Sandra (Carrie-Anne Moss), their mother was in the kitchen sitting by the table and was writing the shopping list while sipping a glass of liquor.Sandra looks up showing a tired face. The woman answers the phone, but initially she heard only silence. A few seconds later, however, you can breathe and even strange sounds. After asking who he was several times and not having received the answers, the woman ended the call thinking that it was a stupid joke. Shortly after another phone call arrived, this time it was a doctor who said that Albert, Sandra's father, had been found lifeless down the stairs of his house with so many broken bones. The doctor says he probably had slipped or had a heart attack and had fallen violently banging his head on the ground. Sandra was then consoled by their two children.
The following morning Sandra, who is a widow and forced to do two jobs, gets out of bed and goes to the bathroom. She goes to the bathroom and gets ready and takes a few pills given by her doctor for a principle of depression and drinks a glass of water. She asks Simon to spend a few days in the grandparents' house where his grandmother Grace (Meg Foster), who suffers from Alzheimer's, still lives. Simon accepts and greets his sister Maddie who is going to go take the train and wishes her good luck for that job. The caregiver was only available for a few hours in the morning and until then Albert has been taking care of Grace.Simon is accompanied to his grandmother's house, which is about a couple of hours old. When they arrive, the caregiver Nora (Emmanuelle Chriqui) awaits them. Nora lets them in but Sandra says she doesn't feel like it and that she has to go to work in the afternoon and starts to get the car. Before getting into the car, the woman turns and takes a look at the house. He looked up at a window and thought for a moment that he saw a disturbing figure behind the glass. Meanwhile, inside the house, the kind Nora is preparing tea and offers it to the boy. In front of the cup of tea, Nora begins to list her grandmother's disappointments and strange behavior.
He also tells a disturbing thing that Albert had revealed to him the day before his death. In fact, she tells of the lady's night activities similar to sleepwalking and Nora advises the boy to put his grandmother to bed shortly after dinner. Also, the bedroom had to be locked and nobody had to sleep with her. From an Albert story, Nora says that one night Grace, laughing like crazy, tried to strangle him in his sleep. Simon thanked Nora for advice, but thought this whole story was a big exaggeration. Their dialogue ended when they heard Grace's voice say nonsense. Nora and Simon went to Grace's room and saw her sitting and smiling and even recognized her nephew in a few moments of lucidity. Simon begins to unpack the suitcase and meanwhile lunchtime arrives and Nora leaves after preparing something to eat. The day is quiet and they stay together in the living room, even if the grandmother hasn't even said a word despite Simon's attempts to make a speech. Then Simon played Call of Duty until evening until he arrived at dinner time and Simon noticed that his grandmother's face looked more relieved, wrinkles also seemed to disappear and that his eyes were more lively. Nora had made soup. He warms her up and starts feeding Grace. At one point, when Simon fed her, clenching her mouth for a few moments. Simon tried to tell her to open her mouth to pull out the spoon and shortly after when she opened her mouth she looked at her nephew and laughed a little, he looked like a child. Immediately after dinner Simon put his grandmother to bed and she continued to smile disturbingly. The boy, after a moment's hesitation, locked his grandmother's room and went to his room and started a Skype call with his sister Maddie, talking about their respective days. Maddie said the photo shoot had gone well and perhaps she would begin to make a career in that area. Simon congratulates her and then says that the day with Grace was all in all good. At 3 A.M. Simon wakes up with a start when he hears a series of noises coming out of his room. Simon, surprised, gets up from the bed and looks out the door seeing nothing and then goes to his grandmother's room looking through the keyhole. He was shocked to see his grandmother who was in the same position in which he had left her, including his disturbing smile on his face and with his eyes turned towards the door. At this point Simon runs into his room and closes himself inside even if he hasn't been able to sleep anymore. The next morning Nora came and listens to Simon's stories of the events of the night before. The day was still calm, although Simon imagined the grandmother's unnatural smile the night before and the anxiety that increased in the boy for the arrival of the evening. After dinner he took his grandmother to bed and when Simon was about to close the door, the night said "Good night dear" with extreme clarity and the boy quickly closed the door and took refuge in his locked room. At 3pm Simon wakes up and immediately hears a noise that has made his blood freeze, he has heard a knock on his bedroom door and has seen the door handle move. Simon was terrified of what was going on until there was silence. After a few minutes Simon opened the door and checked the corridor. As a first step he went to his grandmother's room to find out how he got out, but the door was closed and his grandmother was sleeping peacefully. Then he went back to his room, sitting on the edge of the door to check the situation, but nothing strange happened. The next day, together with Nora, they checked doors and windows and saw that there had been no infringements. Simon said it may have been some sort of dream or jokes of the imagination. The day was a photocopy of the previous day, but at dinner the boy took courage and tried to communicate with his grandmother looking into her eyes, asking for news about what happened the previous nights. Grace stood still for a few seconds before beating her hands on the table and bursting into a long roar of laughter before returning serious with her usual gaze lost in space. As soon as dinner was over he tried to warn his mother of the events that were happening in that house. Sandra was at work in the room where she worked as a waitress. She did not believe him and said it was all the result of his imagination. Simon throws his cell phone nervously. Shortly afterwards the young man brings his grandmother to bed and while she is tucking up the covers, the grandmother begins to say a series of incomprehensible words in a language that Simon did not know. The boy backed away and locked the door like every evening. This time he didn't want to fall asleep and he started listening to music and playing with the PC until tiredness took over. Simon suddenly heard his grandmother's plaintive moans coming from the hallway and loud footsteps as if someone was running back and forth in the hallway. The boy was terrified and did not know what to do and began shouting at his grandmother to go back to bed. At this point there was silence for several minutes. Simon trembled and opened the door and saw his grandmother's room open, even though he had locked it. Simon slowly approaches and sees that his grandmother was there on the bed she was sleeping. As soon as Simon touched the door to close it, his grandmother's reaction was immediate. Grace began to bounce on the bed and laugh out loud until the first light of dawn. Meanwhile Simon had closed the door and put himself in his room with his hands in his ears.
The next day Nora didn't show up and didn't reply when she tried to contact her. Simon decided that the next one would be the last night there. In the afternoon Nora arrived, creating some amazement in the boy. Simon tried to tell the events of the previous night but the woman did not want to know anything about the night events and gave him a pair of cuffs for further moderation.
Evening came and he handcuffed his grandmother on the bed and locked the door. Simon let out a sigh of relief, until after a while he heard his grandmother keep repeating "you're under arrest, you are under arrest". Tired and perhaps more relieved from having stuck his grandmother in bed this time he fell asleep early. At some point he dreams that his grandmother manages to remove the handcuffs and the strength of the mind open the closed doors and head towards her bed. At this point Simon opened his eyes and realized it was a dream. The boy takes the phone next to him to look at the time and when the screen lights up he saw that his grandmother was above his bed with his face a few centimeters from his and with his disturbing smile. The grandmother jumped on him, Simon she could not move, it seemed that her grandmother weighed almost a ton and then she started screaming. Grace also began to do the same as a sign of mockery of Simon. The weight of the grandmother seems to return to normal, makes her fall from the bed and runs off into the corridor. The grandmother tries to grab him but during the fight Grace falls from the stairs and then remains motionless. Simon ran away was found by some passers-by and was taken to the hospital in shock. He woke up after a few hours in the hospital with his mother who was very angry with him saying that his grandmother had run away and that she seemed to have vanished into thin air. After a few days, in the evening, he returned home and started surfing the Internet and found a series of interviews of people who claimed to have woken up due to a figure of a woman with a disturbing smile rising above them. and prevented its movements. He also finds a link where he finds news regarding other similar cases of people who had been in contact with older people who behaved in a dangerously bizarre manner. At that moment he hears giggles coming from the kitchen and the sound of a falling glass. Simon's face is a mask of terror and he sees the figure of Sandra with a knife planted in the abdomen that is approaching him staggering whispering to run away. Sandra falls to the ground as the blood expands below her on the floor. At this point we see Grace's eyes in the dark and chuckling she says "See you soon ..", then breaks the window and runs away. Simon approaches the mother who with tears in her eyes apologizes for not believing him and dies in the arms of her son while he shakes her hoping that she was only passed out.
A few weeks later: We see Grace completely immobilized in a wheelchair pushed by some people armed with guns and rifles and they enter a large isolated structure.
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