‘Grimcutty’ Ending Explained: A Meme Becomes An IRL Monster And Hurts Teens In Hulu Horror Flick

Move over, Big Brother! Someone new is watching – and his name is Grimcutty (or your parents – more on that below).

The self-titled star of the new Hulu original film, which premiered October 10, is one for the digital age. Call it The Ring for Generation Z, Grimcutty isn’t so much a horror film as it is a dark comedy about the struggle for parents to understand technology and their children; it’s a commentary on mental illness and anxiety in the age of Instagram. But even though it’s not incredibly scary, there are still jumpscares, blood, and enough cringey moments of parents using the internet to make anyone terrified (content warning for mentions of suicide).

Want to learn more? We’ll let you in on what really went down at the end of Grimcutty, so read on if you dare. But be warned: spoilers ahead!

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What is the Grimcutty plot summary?

Grimcutty tells the story of Asha (Sara Wolfkind) a Suburban teenager and amateur YouTuber with a knack for ASMR, whose obsession with social media and her phone make her parents Leah (Shannyn Sossamon) and Amir (Usman Ally) wary of the way technology is affecting her and her brother Kamran (Callan Farris). Ever since she quit track, she’s been much more reserved and her parents believe cell phone addiction is to blame. Each week the family goes on one “phone-free” outing so as to bond, which Asha struggles with as her YouTube channel makes her highly anxious.

But soon word gets around that a meme called Grimcutty is spreading to teenagers through links or text messages, causing them to cut themselves or harm others (in one event, a child even stabbed his mother). Leah and Amir warn Asha and Kamran about this, though the children are filled with skepticism about where the mysterious meme came from and how it would be able to control people. As the parents do more research, Asha begins to see Grimcutty, a tall skeletal figure similar to the internet meme of Slender Man or the Momo Challenge. When she alerts her parents of this, they don’t believe her as only she can see it and they determine the best thing would be for Kamran and Asha to put their technology in a “Detox Box” (more on this later) so that Grimcutty won’t get to them. At school the next day, she and her new friend Cassidy (Tate Moore) decide to cut class to do more research about the Grimcutty. They discover that the root of the detox box is mommy blogger Melinda Jaynes (Alona Tal), whose posts are technology-focused with titles like, “Is Your Child’s Smart Phone Making Them Grow Horns?” After finding a deleted post with an image of Grimcutty, Asha thinks Melinda’s hiding something while Cassidy has a strong suspicion that Melinda’s son Brandon (Kayden Alexander Koshelev) was the child who stabbed his mother. After Cassidy leaves, an “un-zen-like” Asha attempts to find Melinda’s address and contacts her brother, who reluctantly agrees to help. During another close encounter with Grimcutty where Asha cuts herself, her parents find her and take her home, only to discover that Grimcutty has also gotten to Kamran and choked him.

Waking up in the hospital, Asha attempts to prove to Leah that what she saw was real but her mother still doesn’t believe her. Having found Kamran’s computer with Melinda’s address, Asha steals Leah’s keys and decides to go after her. As she leaves the hospital, she finds Cassidy and reveals a theory: whenever their parents freak out about technology, Grimcutty attacks. The more Asha tells them about it, the more hysterical her parents get and the more they attempt to control technology; thus, Grimcutty isn’t in control – the parents are. Cassidy warns Asha that she needs to figure it out fast, as the psychologist she met with is about to talk to her parents. “If our parents freaking out makes it stronger then…I’m dead,” she says, and soon Asha is off to fight the mass hysteria that has created Grimcutty.

What is the Grimcutty ending explained?

After Leah discovers that Asha has left, she takes off after her, but she lies about where she is to Amir, who has seemingly become more hysterical. Meanwhile, Asha heads over to Melinda’s to ask her a few questions about her blog and Grimcutty. Though Melinda evades her questions and cuts the conversation short, Asha decides to do some further investigations after finding a computer keyboard and various other pieces of technology thrown into a trash can. After sneaking into the house, Asha soon finds Brandon locked in a closet in his room. He warns her to lock him back in but it is too late – Melinda has found the two of them and threatens Asha with a gun, repeatedly asking her to give up her phone. Asha presses her about what she did. “He did that to himself, I’m just trying to protect him,” Melinda says. When Leah shows up at Melinda’s, Asha tells her the theory and her mother eventually realizes that her daughter is telling the truth. After Leah confronts her, Melinda becomes hysterical, which as the theory predicted, causes Grimcutty to descend. Immediately, Leah runs up to Brandon’s room, where she finds him suspended in the air and being choked by an unseen Grimcutty. As Asha enters to save her mom, Melinda pulls the gun on her, prompting Leah to push her over, causing Grimcutty to release his grip on Brandon. As Melinda prepares to strike again, Brandon stabs his mother once again, this time causing her to officially fall over.

Coming back to the hospital with Brandon and Leah, Asha learns that Cassidy has killed herself and Amir is going crazy, causing Grimcutty to attack Kamran again. As she begins to calm down, she attempts to save Kamran by getting Amir’s attention so that Grimcutty will only attack her. The final showdown between the two of them takes place outside of the hospital, after Asha has stabbed Amir to rid Grimcutty. Having finally been able to calm herself down with deep breathing, Amir enters and Asha is attacked again by Grimcutty, who chokes her in the air just as he did to Brandon. Finally seeing that his daughter was right all along, Amir stabs himself with a medical needle filled with fluid that is supposed to help him calm down. At last, Grimcutty has released his grip off of Asha and her family. The final scene showcases Asha, finally free, telling her ASMR viewers about Grimcutty and her experience with it.

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Stream It Or Skip It?

We seem to say this every time we come across a feelgood teen drama aimed for kids, but it’s almost refreshing to see teens doing things that are inspiring instead of seeing them have sex, drink and party. Call us old fuddy-duddies, but we’re encouraged that Netflix seems to be investing in a lot of shows that are more about the inspirational than about, well, the other stuff. A new series from Australia is in that inspirational category.

Opening Shot: A teen is on a plane. We hear her voice say, “They say that courage is knowing that you might have a chance at failing at something, and choosing to do it anyway.”

The Gist: Kyra Berry (Jada-Lee Henry) was a top gymnast in the U.S., surprisingly making nationals without a professional coach. But she hurt her knee at the national meet and offers to join various academies dried up. However, but then former world champion Maddy Cornell (Emily Morris) offered her a tryout at her Correga Academy in Adelaide, Australia; the three-month tryout could lead to a multi-year academic and athletic scholarship.

Despite the competition — only six scholarships are available, and only one for an international student — most of the girls are happy to see Kyra. Scarlett (Zoe Rae Burns) and Maya (Luciana Valdez Tirado) are not among that group; they even post a selfie of themselves on Kyra’s social media feed declaring themselves the academy’s champions.

Kyra knows the competition is going to be tough, especially because she can’t complete her front fulls without falling, something that’s been plaguing her since her knee injury. But Maddy encourages her by showing her video of an injury she suffered before she became a world champion, and tells her to work with Jaimi (Trung Le), the strength coach who specializes in helping people rehab from injuries. As she works with him for two weeks, her confidence grows.

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What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Gymnastics Academy: A Second Chance is a spin-off of two Australian family movies: A 2nd Chance (2011) and A Second Chance: Rivals! (2019). Both starred Morris as Maddy Cornell; in the first film, she was more or less around the age Kyra is in this series.

Our Take: What we have been appreciating about the various Australian kids’ series that Netflix has debuted over the last year or so is that they’re well-written stories that both kids and adults can appreciate. They don’t talk down to their kid audiences and they don’t irritate adults. They’re just good stories that star teens that aren’t doing the types of things we see in other series, like the recent Aussie import Heartbreak High.

Are there high stakes here? Sorta. There’s only one international slot for the scholarship, and it seems that Kyra is coming from behind in order to grab one of those slots. Scarlett and Maya are going to do all they can to knock her out of contention. But most of the series seems like it’s going to be more inspirational and coming-of-age than anything else, with Kyra coping with being on the other side of the planet from her Minnesota home, maybe dating Bradley (Jett Gazley), a soccer player at the school where the academy students go, and her overall transformation into a confident, world-class gymnast.

And that’s OK. There’s certainly space for a feelgood teen dramedy that has minor conflict, lots of scenes of people flipping and twirling, and inspirational competition scenes. Jada-Lee Henry is extremely likable as Kyra, and Morris’ calming presence as Maddy is welcome, whether you ever saw the two other Second Chance films or not.

What Age Group Is This For?: The show is rated TV-G, so it’s good for all audiences, though gymnastics-loving kids 6 and up might appreciate it the most.

Parting Shot: Scarlett and Maya realize that pushing Kyra out of contention is going to be tougher than they thought; Myra looks towards Kyra as she says, “I have another idea…”

Sleeper Star: Akira Van plays Li, one of the girls who becomes fast friends with Kyra. She’s under tremendous pressure to achieve, and when she introduces herself, she talks about how much she has to do on top of her already strenuous day of gymnastics and school.

Most Pilot-y Line: Scarlett and Maya mention a student named Louisa, who got cut when she couldn’t do a front full. Jami overhears them and asks another coach, “Was there a Louisa here last year?” “I don’t think so,” the coach replies. It did sound like a pretty lame lie from Scarlett and Maya, didn’t it? As TV villains, they need to do better.

Our Call: STREAM IT. Gymnastics Academy: A Second Chance has a feelgood story, appealing stars and lots of top-notch scenes of athletic achievement. It’s definitely not edgy, but that’s a refreshing change for us.

Joel Keller (@joelkeller) writes about food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com, VanityFair.com, Fast Company and elsewhere.



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NYC motorcyclist’s leg severed, two others injured in Brooklyn crash

An 18-year-old motorcyclist’s leg was severed when his bike barreled down the wrong way of a street into an SUV in Brooklyn Saturday evening.

A passenger on the bike suffered a head injury in the accident, which happened just before 8:30 p.m. at Avenue C and McDonald Avenue the Kensington section, police said.

A preliminary investigation revealed that the motorcyclist was driving the wrong way on Avenue C when he slammed into the SUV, which was traveling north on McDonald, according to the NYPD.

The motorcycle was going the wrong way when the crash occurred.

Two others suffered injuries including a head injury to the motorcycle passenger.

Police respond to the scene of the crash in Brooklyn on Sept. 18, 2022.

Once victim was rushed to a local hospital with severe injuries on Sept. 17, 2022.

The two injured people were being treated at Bellevue Hospital.

Photos of the scene showed the victims being taken away in stretchers as a green-and-black motorcycle laid in the street while the elderly woman who was driving the SUV inspected her vehicle for damage.

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I’m afraid my siblings will bully me if I tell them I’m bisexual

DEAR ABBY: I am a teenage girl who has recently discovered I am bisexual. I told a few close friends, and I’m happy to say they have accepted me. Nothing has changed. I have not told any of my family yet. I know my parents will support me, but the problem is two of my four siblings. They constantly tease and taunt me, call me names and pick on me. 

I have been raised to stand up to bullies, and I am mostly confident with myself. I have brought up their bullying to my parents a couple of times, but after discipline from my parents they keep doing it. They are clearly homophobic, and I know they will tease and pick on me even more if I come out to them. 

I want to tell my parents, but I’m afraid it will inevitably lead to my siblings knowing. I don’t think if my younger siblings knew they would care, but they might be confused or weirded out since the concept is foreign to them. 

Should I try to convince my parents not to say anything to my siblings until later? I don’t want to hide, but I don’t want to be pushed to depression, low self-esteem or worse if my vocal homophobic siblings know and chastise me about my sexual orientation. — NEW LGBTQ+ MEMBER

DEAR MEMBER: Your siblings are not necessarily “homophobic.” They may just get a kick out of making their younger sister uncomfortable, and whatever punishment they receive is not sufficient to curb the problem. Whether your parents divulge it, your sexual orientation will become apparent sooner or later, so don’t bother hiding. You have friends and parents who support you. Handling negative comments from your immature sibs will give you the confidence to handle others in the future. 

You may want to consider joining a LGBTQ-friendly youth group for additional support. Your parents can find ways to help you by contacting an organization called PFLAG (pflag.org). It’s the first and largest organization for LGBTQ people, their parents, families and allies. You are an intelligent teen who is in the process of discovering who you are, and for that I applaud you.

DEAR ABBY: Over the last year and a half, I’ve been in a relationship with someone I have known for a lifetime. He’s married but working on getting a divorce. He has promised we will do things together once everything is settled. There have been several recent deaths in his family, including a grandchild who was killed by a drunk driver. 

Until a week ago we talked daily, when he told me he needed some time to think and get everything straight. I offered to return the things of his that I have. He said not to, and repeated that he just needed some time. His family has leaned on him for years. I’m sure he is overwhelmed. Should I wait and see what’s next or mend my heart and move on? — STANDING BY IN THE EAST

DEAR STANDING BY: As you are probably aware, I have printed many letters from women who were strung along far longer than two years. Back off. Give him six months to get his head and his life straight and to get that divorce filed. If nothing has changed by then, you will have devoted only two years of your life to the affair, and you should move on.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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‘Keep This Between Us’ explores how teachers groom students

Growing up in a small town in Texas, Cheryl Nichols adored her high school drama teacher. He was the kind of guy who read poetry and made her feel like she was the smartest girl in class. She relished his reading recommendations, and admired his killer taste in music. 

“He was one of those teachers who was such a dear mentor,” Nichols, now 39, told The Post.

One night when she was just 16, he invited her and some of her classmates over to watch the ’90s comedy series “Strangers With Candy.” Later that evening, with his wife in another room and none of her classmates in sight, he leaned in to kiss her. 

“I knew that it wasn’t just a flirtation. [I knew it was wrong] when it became an actual physical thing — it was at his house — a bunch of theater kids would go there periodically and he and his wife would have us over and they would cook for us. [His wife] was not aware of what was happening,” Nichols said, of her predator who was hiding in plain sight.

Cheryl Nichols documents her relationship with her high school teacher when she was just 16 years old in the new Freeform docuseries “Keep This Between Us.”
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“I was in a relationship with my teacher and it started when I was 16,” Nichols admits in the trailer of her new four-part docuseries “Keep This Between Us,” out Monday on Freeform. 

In it, she chronicles her relationship with the mentor she trusted — though never names him, she said, for legal reasons — who groomed her to keep their relationship a secret.

“Dearest Pony: OK, first things first — never send an email with your real name on it. Remember, this is our little secret,” Nichols said, reading an email from her former teacher in the trailer for the docuseries.

“He just starts getting more and more sexual,” she says in the series, which sheds light on the prevalence of grooming in schools across the country and how common it is among young women and older male teachers.

“It started very innocently. He’d complement me on my intelligence or the way I danced at the pep rally, and it just slowly turned into this kind of direct sexual innuendo conversation,” Nichols said.
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“My relationship with the teacher was a really delicate process and something that was seemingly deliberate on his part. It started very innocently. He’d complement me on my intelligence or the way I danced at the pep rally, and it just slowly turned into this kind of direct sexual innuendo conversation,” Nichols told The Post.

The glaring warning signs, she said, went overlooked because of her admiration for someone whom she thought was her mentor, a common misconception among many teenage girls who may experience similar grooming patterns, Nichols said.

Grooming is defined as a pattern of manipulative behaviors used most commonly as a tool to sexually abuse young children and teenagers, according to the nonprofit organization RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network). Abusers use manipulative tactics, targeting vulnerable victims to emotionally or physically separate them from loved ones by gaining their trust through attention, gifts or sharing “secrets,” according to RAINN. These tactics are most often used by someone in a victim’s closest circle — family, friends or authority figures like teachers, coaches or mentors and can be particularly difficult to recognize. That was the case for Nichols.

“He was just easy to be around and he enriched the parts of my life that needed in enriching. I thought he hung the moon. I thought he was the greatest thing ever and I loved how much attention he would give me. I felt loved by him,” she says. “How could you not love a person that’s that invested in you?” 

But really, that was a tactic, she said, that helped him gain her loyalty as their bond grew stronger, and, ultimately, kept their relationship isolated well into her early college years.

“[I thought,] ‘This person really loves me so he must not want to hurt me.’ It occurred to me that [the relationship] was wrong the entire time, but I didn’t have the adult processing skills at that point to think about the consequences of this,” she said. “As a teenager, you don’t always have the awareness that you are being targeted or these things are happening to you. You’re looking for validation from all adults who are around you.”  

Nichols interviewed her classmates, teachers and family to put together the missing pieces of her past and shed light on teenage grooming in schools.
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When Nichols, now a filmmaker, decided to move to Los Angeles in her early 20s to pursue her career, the relationship ended, she said. According to her, the teacher never faced any consequences over their relationship, but he was fired from a job after later having an inappropriate relationship with another student.

In the series, Nichols reaches out to the teacher for comment in a fraught moment.

 “I haven’t spoke to him in about 10 years and I surely hadn’t seen him,” Nichols told The Post. “I was really nervous. I had been through a lot of therapy and I was really concerned about being drawn back into his web in a way, to be totally honest. I was afraid that he was going to be able to manipulate me.”

In the series, Nichols reaches out to the teacher for comment in a fraught moment. “I was really nervous. I had been through a lot of therapy and I was really concerned about being drawn back into his web … I was afraid that he was going to be able to manipulate me.”
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And he was.

“He actually didn’t directly deny it, but skirted the conversation at every point and focused on the college aspect [of our relationship],” said Nichols. He also denied the accusations to producers of the series show. In some ways, she regrets reaching out to him.

“I would not advocate victims to confront the people that groomed them or their abusers — I would never advocate for a confrontational moment. There was a part of me that was naively jumping into it as a filmmaker and I had no idea what would happen to me. It’s been a long road.”

Nichols hopes “Keep This Between Us” will foster conversations about teenage grooming and help parents discuss some of the subtle warning signs with their kids, such as secretive relationships or teachers or those in positions of power overstepping boundaries.

“We haven’t spent a lot of time culturally thinking about what those subtle signs are. Just in general, the line is crossed if a teacher gets your number and is privately texting you. If you’re being complimented by your teacher in a way that makes you uncomfortable. There are immediate signs that you are being targeted,” she said. 

“Keep This Between Us” premieres Monday at 9 p.m. on Freeform as a two-night event and will be available to stream on Hulu.

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Landon Barker talks ‘bad’ mental health days, shares OCD graphics

Landon Barker admits it’s been a rough few days for his mental health.

“My derealization has been really bad and I just wanna come on here and tell everyone your [sic] not alone and we are all imperfect in our own ways,” Travis Barker’s 18-year-old son wrote via his Instagram Stories early Wednesday.

“I love you guys. #mentalhealthawareness.”

The teenager, who wore a black turtleneck and silver jewelry in a picture that accompanied the text, went on to share multiple graphics.

The first described derealization as a “relatively common” symptom of anxiety, listing a few telltale signs.

“Your limbs feel strange,” the Instagram post read in part.

”Things don’t feel real. Your face looks weird in the mirror. Feeling detached from reality. Feeling disconnected from your body. Things feel like they’re moving in slow motion.”

The rest of the re-shared graphics described OCD, clarifying that the mental illness is not an “enjoyable … personality quirk” but an “intrusive and distressing” disorder.

Landon assured his followers that they are “not alone.”
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The teen has recently been making headlines for his relationship with TikTok star Charli D’Amelio and his father’s marriage to Kourtney Kardashian.

One month after news broke that Landon and D’Amelio, also 18, were dating, they made things Instagram-official with a PDA pic.

The teen is currently dating Charli D’Amelio.
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The dancer gushed over how “sweet” her boyfriend is while speaking to Entertainment Tonight in July.

“I think for a long time it was really difficult,” the “D’Amelio Show” star said of dating in the public eye. “But now I kind of live life first and think about what people are going to say after.”



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