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The Grandmother(2022)

Name: The Grandmother
Genre: Drama, Horror
Released: 2022
Duration: 101 min

2022 · Paco Plaza · 101 min

Susana leaves her life in Paris, where she works as a model, and returns to Madrid to take care of her grandmother Pilar.

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Drama · Horror

5.9498 votes

TMDB score

4/5

Intensity

2/5

Gore

4/5

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How scary is The Grandmother?

There's a heavy, suffocating sense of unease that builds slowly as you watch, more like a bad dream than a thrill ride. The pace is patient and quiet, letting small wrong details pile up in an apartment that starts to feel less and less safe. Body horror and uncanny imagery creep in gradually rather than through jump scares, and the fear comes from watching a familiar relationship turn strange and wrong. It's the kind of horror that unsettles and disturbs rather than one you enjoy being startled by, better suited to viewers who like slow dread over loud shocks.

On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, The Grandmother rates psychological 5/5, visceral 2/5, gore 2/5, lingering effect 4/5, and overall intensity 4/5.

Psychological: 5 of 5
Visceral: 2 of 5
Gore: 2 of 5
Lingering: 4 of 5
Intensity: 4 of 5

Slow burn vs Jump scares: 15 of 100 — leans Slow burn

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Supernatural vs Real-world: 25 of 100 — leans Supernatural

SupernaturalReal-world

Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 75 of 100 — leans Disturbing

Fun-scaryDisturbing

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A slow, quiet family drama that gradually tightens into a deeply unsettling and disturbing final stretch.

Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5.

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