Dylan (Terry King) is terribly overworked, especially since a colleague
seems to steal away all his clients. Then he receives a call that his wife
Kim (Sonja M.Flaherty) is cheating on him with another man, and when he
decides to spy on her, he finds out the other man is none other than his
colleague at work who has been stealing his clients. At first, Dylan
reacts as if nothing had happened, but eventually, he kills the colleague
and ties up his wife in the basement, where he tortures and eventually
kills her as well. Once she's dead though, he is left heartbroken,
realising that instead of her, he has sent himself into hell. It's not
long before the cops grow wise to what Dylan has done, but once they want
to arrest him, they find him dead in the bathtub, his wrists slit. One
question remains: Who is that man in white, who has called Dylan to inform
him about his wife's infidelity, and who has popped up time and again all
during the story? Why, it's Dylan himself, having chosen his own hell to
live in ... Apart from the twist ending, the plot of this
featurette has virtually nothing new to offer ... and fortunately,
writer/director Ron Atkins knew that and made up for the lack of
originality with a novel approach to the story, taking its plot elements
out of narrative order and rearranging them as if by chance - yet in the
end, the whole story once again makes perfect sense. That all said, Grip
is not a perfect film, as Terry King is not the most convincing lead and
Atkins' directorial effort seems a tad on the flat side, yet it's an interesting
experiment that deserves to be seen.
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