Grima
2025 · 6m · USA
Directed by Richie Harrington
After committing some unspecified act, Jen is consumed by grima — the visceral, full-body revulsion of nails on a chalkboard — as her guilt manifests as a physical sensation she cannot escape.
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The scouts
A film that makes guilt literally unbearable to the skin — finally, horror that understands shame is a full-body experience, not just a feeling.
Richie Harrington literalizes guilt as nails-on-chalkboard sensory disorder — a single, well-chosen horror mechanism that earns its six minutes if the sound design is calibrated, which is everything for a film like this.
Literalizing guilt as the nails-on-chalkboard sensation — that's a sharply contained sensory-horror premise for six minutes. Whether the sound design earns the conceit is the entire question, and the runtime is honest about that.
Festivals
- FilmQuest 2025