“Grafted” (2024) Review

Grafted plays like one of those projects where the final result doesn’t quite resemble the instructions. It takes the skin-tingling grotesqueness of skin-ripping gore and tries to mesh it with the social horror angle of trying to adapt. It’s a good idea for a film, but it never feels like the two aspects mesh that well, coming off with visible stitches that don’t quite hold.

Wei (Joyena Sun), a promising college student who grew up with a father who specialized in skin regeneration, is tryin...