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Grave Intentions

2021 film directed by Lukas Hassel, Brian Patrick Lim and Gabriel Olson

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ111915049
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Grave Intentions is a 2021 American anthology horror film directed by Lukas Hassel, Brian Patrick Lim and Gabriel Olson and starring Joy Vandervort-Cobb, Beth Grant, Sharon Lawrence, Robert Forster (in his final film appearance) and Hassel.

Cast

Joy Vandervort-Cobb as Madam Josephine

Beth Grant as Mattie Whalen

Robert Forster as Don Whalen

Sharon Lawrence as Olivia Korhonen

Kevin Dee as Willie Bingham

Gregory J. Fryer as George Morton

Charly Thorn as Florence

Lucas Oktay as Young Luke

Lukas Hassel as Father

Colleen Carey as Mother

Astarte Abraham as Aunt/Mom

Release

The film was released on digital on October 15, 2021.

Reception

The film has a 67% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on six reviews.

Bobby LePire of Film Threat gave the film a 9 out of 10 and wrote "As with all anthologies, some portions of Grave Intentions are stronger than others.

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The public source identifies “Grave Intentions” as 2021 film directed by Lukas Hassel, Brian Patrick Lim and Gabriel Olson. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Grave, Intentions and film.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2021-10-15. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Grave, Intentions and film providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q111915049. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from Grave Intentions” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.