By MICHAEL GINGOLD
The latest from the creator of I SELL THE DEAD has landed distribution.
Chroma has announced its acquisition of North American rights to THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR, with theatrical release planned for later this year. Directed by Glenn McQuaid (I SELL THE DEAD) from a script he wrote with genre novelist Clay McLeod Chapman, it premiered at last year’s Fantastic Fest and stars Chris Colfer, Alice Krige (SLEEPWALKERS), Daniel Adegboyega, Declan Reynolds, Gabriela Garcia Vargas and Matthew McMahon. According to the official synopsis, Colfer plays “Boyd Grayson, a hedonistic heir who loses his hands in a freak accident. His domineering mother, Jacqueline [Krige], invests in radical experimental new technology to help him.” Things go gruesomely and wickedly awry from there.
“From our first conversations, it was clear Chroma really got this film,” McQuaid says. “Their persistence and enthusiasm throughout the acquisition has been incredibly affirming. THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR is a deeply personal, Gothic queer horror, and finding a North American partner willing to champion its ambition and strangeness means everything to us. I couldn’t be more excited to have Chroma bringing it to audiences.”
“THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR is audacious, perverse, and emotionally ferocious,” says Chroma VP Ahbra Perry. “Glenn McQuaid has crafted an unsettling horror story that explores queer identity and repression, and bodily autonomy, in a way that feels both operatic and intimate. We’re thrilled to bring this film to North American audiences, and to showcase Chris Colfer’s powerful return to acting in such a daring, transformative role.”
