The high stress care of a difficult 88-year-old grandmother is tearing a Basque family apart. They think that she’s addled, until one family member after another come to realize that she actually is lucid and diabolical. She’s so evil that it becomes either her or them.
Monserrat Carulla makes the most of the delicious role as the conniving grannie. You may have seen her in the excellent Spanish horror film The Orphanage. The rest of the cast is excellent, too.
It’s a dark comedy and much, much darker than American audiences are used to. She does some very bad things to sympathetic human characters and to innocent animals.
This Spanish movie is in the Basque language and is also titled Urte Berri On, Amona!.