GROW
Synopsis
Following the death of his parents, Hollis Reed falls for Locasta Larkin, a mesmerizing young musician who invites him to meet her family in rural Connecticut. By the time he arrives, Locasta is dead.
That night, she visits him in a fever dream unlike anything he’s ever experienced. When he wakes, something impossible is growing inside him.
Long awaiting this ancient miracle, Locasta’s family imprisons Hollis in their secluded farmhouse and prepares for the birth. As his body changes in ways he cannot comprehend, escape from the house and his fate becomes increasingly impossible.
Blending horror, dark comedy, and surrealism, GROW is a psychosexual nightmare about bodily autonomy and what to expect when he’s expecting.
That night, she visits him in a fever dream unlike anything he’s ever experienced. When he wakes, something impossible is growing inside him.
Long awaiting this ancient miracle, Locasta’s family imprisons Hollis in their secluded farmhouse and prepares for the birth. As his body changes in ways he cannot comprehend, escape from the house and his fate becomes increasingly impossible.
Blending horror, dark comedy, and surrealism, GROW is a psychosexual nightmare about bodily autonomy and what to expect when he’s expecting.
Meet the Filmmaker
Meet the Filmmaker
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Brian
Gottlieb
Writer/Director/Editor
Brian Gottlieb is a writer and director from New York drawn to stories where ordinary life gives way to the uncanny....Read more
Brian Gottlieb is a writer and director from New York drawn to stories where ordinary life gives way to the uncanny. His debut feature, GROW, follows a lonely musician who becomes mysteriously pregnant and is forced to carry a supernatural child to term, transforming questions of bodily autonomy into a surreal, emotionally charged, gender-bending nightmare. Read less
