The Plot: Keri Russell plays an Emo-ish (borderline Goth-ish) grad student who is writing a thesis on the subject of gay cannibals. She's all mopey and has a dark side that shines through now and then, which sends her on a mission to find out the truth about a gay German serial killer... what she finds instead is a bunch of creepy Germans who have a fetish that involves eating each other (and not usually in the pleasant way.)
This is one of those slow pot boiler movies that feels tainted from the get go, and gradually gets more morbid the further into it you get. By the time the last scenes of the movie arrive, you're most likely going to be cringing and saying "What in the hell is wrong with people?" This movie tackles two difficult and uncomfortable subject matters in cannibalism and gay sex... if you have a problem watching either on screen, you may want to skip this one as there is plenty of suggestive and visceral images of both on screen throughout.
Is it a love story? In a way. It's more a story about some lonely, mentally scarred people finding each other while at the same time finally finding a purpose on their creepy common ground. Either that, or it's a story about some fucked up German serial killer who was the first to exploit and use the internet as a tool for his craft. Either way it's interesting, and even better than that, it's a really dark and creepy movie.
There's a particularly spooky email exchange towards the end which really drove the creepy meter through the roof, and finally gave Keri Russell what she wanted... and more. Dun, dun, dun! But seriously, it was pretty eerie, reminding us of the basement scene from Zodiac; you never know who is where, and why or how they are there, only that they are there and lurking there to give you a message or scare. (I have no idea what I just wrote.)
Subtle, eerie, uncomfortable and just downright spooky, Grimm Love delivers the creepy goods. (I know I just used eerie, spooky and creepy in the same sentence, which is really redundant and sloppy grammar, but it needed to be done!) I was very surprised that this movie has basically sat on the shelf since 2006 and couldn't find any kind of release. It's a flick worth seeing.
