Justine (Garance Marillier) is a vegetarian, and has been so for all her life - but now she's going to university to become a veterinarian, and part of the hazing ritual is that she eats raw rabbit kidney, and that doesn't only give her a rash, it also leaves her craving for ... meat. Now that wouldn't even be that much of a problem (and I know vegetarians would disagree and I respect that, but I mean from a purely practical point of view), but things come to a head when Justine's sister Alexia (Ella Rumpf) loses her finger, and Justine finds it ... and eats it up. Weirdly enough though, Alexia catches her doing so but treats it as the most normal thing. Thing is of course, Alexia is a cannibal, which for some reason is hereditary, and since the girls have the same parents (Laurent Lucas, Joana Preiss), Justine just has to be a cannibal as well - not that the parents haven't done everything to prevent her cannibalism from breaking out. Justine, being the good girl that she is, does what she can to prevent becoming a full-blown flesheater, but things come to a head when she wakes up next to her dead and partially gnawed off roommate and part-time lover (Rabah Nait Oufella) ...

Basically, Grave is a fun horror flick ... that just takes itself a little bit too seriously. Bsically, this is a reworking of the (admittedly inferior) Alyssa Milano cult hit Embrace of the Vampire, though replacing vampires with cannibals, and could have thus have been a trashy but fun horror romp - but it just tries to hard to remain utterly serious and thus loses some of its drive. That said though, the thing's pretty well directed and the cast is very solid, so it's a very enjoyable movie - but it still remains behind what it could have been ...

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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