A psychological-thriller in the haunting tradition of films like Taxi
Driver and Monster, The Grief Tourist takes us into the chilling
labyrinth of a man's dark hobby and his even darker mind. JIM TAHANA
doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look
closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable
American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that
might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over
the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief
tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of
tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are
spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial
killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a
mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary
vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality
deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an
unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to
it's brutal and shocking finale.
