RABID GRANNIES

Set in West Flanders, Belgium in the 1980s, two elderly sisters invite their wonderful nieces and nephews to a dinner party in celebration of the sisters' upcoming birthdays. The one nephew who is not invited is the ostracised black sheep of the family whose devil-worshipping activities have resulted in his being removed from the sisters' inheritance. The rest of the guests are merely putting in time; they are actually only waiting for their aunts to die, leaving them amply endowed via their respective inheritances. Unfortunately for all but the aunts, the nephew sends a party gift that turns the scene into a frolic of the macabre and ruins the party: under the gift's power, the aunts turn into cannibalistic demons and proceed to eat up all of their guests.

The aunts, transformed into cannibalistic demons by the gift, eat all of their guests.

Rabid Grannies concludes with a complete reversal of familial power dynamics—the would-be heirs, united only by their greed, are picked off by the monstrous aunts they expected to outlive. The film lands as a gory satire of inheritance and selfishness, suggesting that sometimes the true family curse is the family itself—and whatever is in that gift box.