For fans of queer horror, The Restoration at Grayson Manor is a welcome spooky season release. Directed and co-written by Glenn McQuaid (V/H/S), The Restoration at Grayson Manor stars Chris Colfer, marking his first film role in nearly a decade.Colfer, who rose to fame as Kurt Hummel in Glee, stars as Boyd Grayson, a spoiled but talented musician with major daddy (and mommy!) issues. Chaos ensues when his mother Jaqueline (Alice Krige) finds him in a compromising position with a one-night stand. Amid their arguing, a career ending tragedy strikes.Unable to care for himself, Jaqueline secludes Boyd away in Grayson Manor, a creaky Irish castle, with a team of medical professionals, all of them questionable. While Dr. Jefferey Tannock (Daniel Adegboyega) attempts a revolutionary but unproven treatment for Boyd, Boyd spars with his mother and nurse Claudia (Gabriela Garcia Vargas). Furious at the world for his accident, Boyd also forms an unlikely bond with medical assistant Lee (Declan Reynolds).However, at Grayson Manor, nothing is quite as it seems. Betrayal, violence and calamity wait around every corner of the aging manor, as Boyd tries to come to terms with his new normal.Colfer gets a chance to chew the scenery in this film, bringing a theatrical flair to everything Boyd does. The film is at times broad, but the melodrama of the film calls for something over the top. The love/hate relationship between mother and son anchors the film and gives Boyds tenuous emotional state real depth.Director McQuaid balances the campiness of Boyds situation with the increasingly life or death stakes solidly. Madness and manors go together like Texas and chainsaws, and the setting drops a gloomy haze over everyones intentions.The Restoration at Grayson Manor isnt just a body horror film, either. There are negative Oedipal undertones, hints of conversion therapy, the dark side of technology and the fear of losing oneself to despair.If you are looking for a biting horror comedy with entertaining performances, check out The Restoration at Grayson Manor when it comes to a film festival near you.The post Chris Colfer returns to the big screen in queer horror The Restoration at Grayson Manor appeared first on News Is Out.