EXCLUSIVE: The UK’s Bankside has sold queer horror The Restoration At Grayson Manor to genre specialist Chroma for North American distribution.
Irish filmmaker Glenn McQuaid directs the Fantastic Fest 2025 premiere. Chris Colfer plays a hedonistic heir who loses his hands in a freak accident. His domineering mother, played by Alice Krige, invests in radical experimental new technology to help him.
A theatrical release is planned for later this year.
Producers are Dublin-based Deirdre Levins, John McDonnell and Brendan McCarthy of Fantastic Films, whose credits include Cannes Critics’ Week 2019 premiere Vivarium.
Co-producer is Thomas Herbert and Florian Brüning of Austria’s Horse&Fruits. McQuaid co-wrote the script with Clay McLeod Chapman.
Financiers include Screen Ireland, Coimisún na Meán and the Austria Film Institute.
“The Restoration At Grayson Manor is audacious, perverse, and emotionally ferocious,” said Ahbra Perry, vice president of Chroma. “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.”
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