The Grief Tourist2013

Name: The Grief Tourist
Genre: Psychological, Slasher, Survival
Released: 2013-08-23
Rating: 5.1

“He Goes to Dark Places...”

Directed by Suri Krishnamma

5.1

Crypt Score

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IMDb 5.0Rotten Tomatoes 25%Metacritic 40TMDB 4.7

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Year

2013

Runtime

84 min

The premise

JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale...

Horror Vault's take

Jim Tahana is the kind of man you overlook — quiet, unremarkable, easy to forget. But beneath that ordinary surface lies a disturbing fixation: annual pilgrimages to sites connected to infamous serial killers, a ritual that feeds something deeply wrong inside him. When his latest trip to New Orleans pulls him deeper into his darkest impulses, the line between morbid fascination and something far more dangerous begins to dissolve. What starts as a character study in obsession builds toward a brutal reckoning that is equal parts psychological unraveling and visceral horror.

Content: Violence, Sexual Content, Depictions Of Prostitution, Disturbing Psychological Themes