Grafted

Grafted (2024)

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.

Date of release
2024-09-12
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (88)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Horror
Director
Sasha Rainbow

Casting

Interesting facts

Grafted is a 2024 New Zealand coming-of-age body horror film directed by Sasha Rainbow, and written by Mia Maramara, Hweiling Ow, Lee Murray, and Rainbow. The film stars Joyena Sun, Jess Hong, Eden Hart, Jared Turner, and Sepi Toa.

Production

Grafted was produced by Murray Francis of Propaganda, and Leela Menon of FluroBlack. It was financed by the New Zealand Film Commission, amongst others.

The story was created Hweiling Ow, after being awarded the Women's Short Horror Film Fund in Melbourne in 2018. She said, "I thought long and hard about where I sat in the Venn diagram of me being a migrant living in New Zealand. I wondered what it would be like to live in someone else's life—to experience their privilege, their empowerment, their politics in a foreign country".

The film was primarily shot in Auckland, New Zealand in mid-2023.

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