By MICHAEL GINGOLD
Self-improvement takes a grisly turn in the movie streaming next month.
GRAFTED, directed by New Zealand filmmaker Sasha Rainbow from a script she wrote with Mia Maramara, Hweiling Ow and Lee Murray, debuts on Shudder January 24. Joyena Sun, Jess Hong, Eden Hart, Jared Turner, Sepi To’a and Xiao Hu star; the synopsis: “Chinese scholarship student Wei [Sun] travels to New Zealand to study medical research at a prestigious university. Shy, introverted, and hiding a genetic facial birthmark, Wei is shunned by her social butterfly cousin Angela [Hong] and her glamorous friends. Determined to change her fate, Wei immerses herself in her late father’s research, working on a revolutionary skin-grafting procedure that could cure her deformity. As her experiments take a dark turn, she becomes more dangerous and unhinged, willing to eliminate anyone who threatens her secret.”
