Grace (2009)

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• Dead A

  
  This movie is sick as hell. Very disturbing. I saw this because of the poster. It seemed like "It's a good movie that will make you jump in every moment". But sadly it bored me to death (I'm still alive...muhahaha). Anyway, it looked like a low-budget movie. Every… More
  This movie is sick as hell. Very disturbing. I saw this because of the poster. It seemed like "It's a good movie that will make you jump in every moment". But sadly it bored me to death (I'm still alive...muhahaha). Anyway, it looked like a low-budget movie. Every time I expected to see the baby with horrifying feature, instead, I saw a regular baby who looked like "Give me a toy, I want to play now!". The story was good but they couldn't make it useful. But I must confess the ending is good. It sounded like "there's going to be a part - 2, people". Another thing that caught my attention, why would anyone want to deliver their child in a bath tub?<a href='http://www.mysmiley.net/free-facebook-smileys.php' title='facebook smileys'><img src='http://serve.mysmiley.net/confused/confused0050.gif' alt='facebook smileys' border='0'></a> (or what do you call that?) Don't have any idea but that was weird. I think they did explained why but my ear was also bored to take it anymore. And fyi, that baby looked totally fake. Anyone can figure that (even the dog in your house). <a href="http://s1039.photobucket.com/albums/a471/3niR/?action=view&current=grace_filmstill3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a471/3niR/grace_filmstill3.jpg" border="0" alt="grace"></a>

• Leigh R

  
  Disturbing. Not so much for the scariness, but for the plot itself. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

• Carlos M

  
  Although a few times effective, this overly twisted horror flick is unfortunately mostly unscary, as it tries to be much more disgusting and graphic than genuinely unnerving and unsettling.

• Lorenzo v

  
  <i>"Love... Undying."</i> After losing her unborn child, Madeline Matheson insists on carrying the baby to term. Following the delivery, the child miraculously returns to life with an appetite for human blood. Madeline is faced with a mother's ultimate… More
  <i>"Love... Undying."</i> After losing her unborn child, Madeline Matheson insists on carrying the baby to term. Following the delivery, the child miraculously returns to life with an appetite for human blood. Madeline is faced with a mother's ultimate decision. <center><font size=+2 face="Century Schoolbook"><b><u>REVIEW</u></b></font></center> Exceptionally unsettling horror thriller with Jordan Ladd turning in a superb turn as a recently widowed woman whose pregnancy experiences complications, to say the least, involving a supremely miraculous yet chilling outcome. With some truly inventive editing and a queasy sound design by John Coniglio and Darrin Navarro and Brett Hinton, respectively, novice filmmaker Paul Solet makes a remarkable debut hearkening themes from "Rosemary's Baby" and "May", the film lingers long after its haunting climax. Kudos also to Samantha Ferris as Ladd's former mentor and current midwife who harbors more than a passing interest.

• Nani V

  
  At times it got a little boring and I lost interest. Don't get me wrong, the story had potential, but it just got too crazy for me.

• Emily A

  
  Again, this is a movie that will make your very skin crawl. I found all the characters very three-dimensional and interesting, and all had very tangible motivations for everything they did. A pregnant woman is involved in a car accident that kills her husband, and carries her baby -… More
  Again, this is a movie that will make your very skin crawl. I found all the characters very three-dimensional and interesting, and all had very tangible motivations for everything they did. A pregnant woman is involved in a car accident that kills her husband, and carries her baby - the fate of whom is as yet unknown - to term. Her baby's very close brush with death turns it into a strange little monster who will only eat blood. The result is a harrowing story about a loving mother's slavish care for her infant, and her growing distance from everyone else, who don't understand the situation. I'd love to see a sequal that sows you the girl and woman that baby Grace grows into.

• Tim S

  
  Strange film. At times horrifying, but overall, not a perfect film.

• A.D. V

  
  Hardly as disturbing as everyone makes it out to be unless you consider the grandmother subplot which had several scenes making me squirm uncomfortably in my seat. The film breaks down into three parts: the set-up and introduction to "the problem" (this part moves along… More
  Hardly as disturbing as everyone makes it out to be unless you consider the grandmother subplot which had several scenes making me squirm uncomfortably in my seat. The film breaks down into three parts: the set-up and introduction to "the problem" (this part moves along well enough); then there's the figuring out and coming to terms with "the problem" (which eats up way too much of its running time as the audience is way, way ahead of the mother); then the resolution--if the majority of the film had been as suspenseful and bloody as this part we'd have a winner. As it stands its a slow curiosity piece that is ultimately forgettable except for the final "shock" at the end that had me rolling on the floor.

• Steve K

  
  Well acted but not all that suspenseful, Grace is a decent little flick that works on the creep factor more than gore. If it were any longer it would likely be unwatchable, but thankfully it has the sense to stay short. No big surprises, but certainly worth a look for better the… More
  Well acted but not all that suspenseful, Grace is a decent little flick that works on the creep factor more than gore. If it were any longer it would likely be unwatchable, but thankfully it has the sense to stay short. No big surprises, but certainly worth a look for better the better than expected performances, especially from Ladd. I also should note that I have a friend whose wife will be giving birth soon and who has chosen a midwife. I realized while watching the film that this would likely freak him out far more than me, so give it an extra half-star if you're into natural childbirth or vegetarianism/veganism.

• Mike N

  
  Lesbian heartache! Crooked doctors who die easy! Conniving, lactating menopausal mothers-in-law! Carnivorous black cats! Vegan dieting! All of that and more in this film! Oh, right, and there’s a zombie baby that needs human blood to live named Grace. Get it? “Grace?” Ha? “Be… More
  Lesbian heartache! Crooked doctors who die easy! Conniving, lactating menopausal mothers-in-law! Carnivorous black cats! Vegan dieting! All of that and more in this film! Oh, right, and there’s a zombie baby that needs human blood to live named Grace. Get it? “Grace?” Ha? “Be disturbed!” this movie insists. “Or die from laughter,” it unwittingly adds. The movie’s premise actually lured me in, because there seemed like some interesting disturbances to be mined from this, and not the trite, psychologically absent fodder actually contained within. A baby that dies mere weeks before the due date, is carried to term because the mother is a headcase, and the baby lives, only to require actual blood for sustenance! Intrigue! Yeah, that may work better as a short story experiment, because in trying to play up – with all the seriousness it could muster – the disturbing drama of such a situation, the film made a joke of itself. The movie started losing me when the progression in Maddie’s (the mother’s) discovery of baby Grace’s “special” needs became clunky and unrealistic, taking severe leaps in guesswork in why Grace is acting the way she is. Mostly because I think the movie couldn’t sustain any more of its deliberately moody pace for longer than the already-slim 84 minutes it clocked in at. After that, the movie unspooled into the realm of accidental yuks, and movies like these can never recover from that realm. The lesbian midwife subplot, the collusion of whackjob mother-in-law and corrupt doctor subplot, and even unexplained flies... it became a parfait of "WTF" which served only to distract from the core plot, which needn't this extra silly baggage. But the original premise may as well have been nourished on animal's blood, too. From juxtaposing whispered lullabyes against a bloodstained mother’s bra to the heightening of the strings and quick pullaways from the flies hovering around baby Grace’s bleeding mouth, this movie pulled out all the visual stops in its desperate attempt to unnerve the viewer. But there was no weight to any of it. The consequences of baby Grace's condition and its affects on Maddie became more and more side-splitting, climaxing with no less than 3 doorbell-ringing visitors on the same day for a heretofore recluse of a mother, and the absolutely far-from-harrowing bloody confrontation each one experienced. I half-expected a final montage of blood doubling as tears and a lonely baby’s cry echoing through the night with children's music chiming and strong emphasis on the deep cellos. If only to make the movie accidentally better, I guess.

• Ryan M

  
  *** out of **** A baby's cry - no, a baby's scream - is quite possibly one of the most annoying sounds known to mankind; this is something that both writer-director Paul Solet and his debut feature "Grace" know very well. In a cinematic legacy of children from… More
  *** out of **** A baby's cry - no, a baby's scream - is quite possibly one of the most annoying sounds known to mankind; this is something that both writer-director Paul Solet and his debut feature "Grace" know very well. In a cinematic legacy of children from hell and toddlers from beyond the grave; here's an artful horror flick where the child is not from hell, nor is it undead. No, it's a normal baby; just with some ugly, gruesome peculiarities. That is what makes it a horror film in the first place; because a baby is a baby, but a baby that vomits blood and loses all its hair at the mere gentle touch of a brush is something else, and signifies a young child that might break instead of bounce if one were to drop it. The parent of this child is Madeline (Jordan Ladd). She's tried getting pregnant a few times, but one time while she is engaged in sexual intercourse with her husband Michael, things seem to work out for once. A few seconds later and bang, Madeline is pregnant, and she's living the vegan life. Michael's mother Vivian (Gabrielle Rose) does not approve of the foods that Madeline is indulging in; nor does she approve in her choice of doctors. Instead, she recommends one that she trusts quite a bit; only to have her suggestions rejected by both members of the couple. Their choice is to go to a birthing clinic; where they meet the kindly woman who runs it, Dr. Patricia Lang (Samantha Ferris). They seem to like her; and she seems to like them. But that won't get the baby born. It's only a matter of time now. Indeed, it is. Madeline suddenly feels increasing pain in her chest area one night, and has to be rushed to the hospital shortly thereafter. It is there that Patricia prevents the doctors from beginning the labor process; as they intended to. So Michael and Madeline drive home the next night, their child still with them. But then, a fatal car crash changes everything; killing Michael, killing the baby, and leaving Madeline alive. It is then that she refers to Patricia and the clinic for further help; delivering her unborn child and miraculously nursing it (her) back to health, and naming the child Grace. Was it a miracle - a blessing - or was it a bad omen for things to come? The child seems pretty alright at first; although it doesn't take much time for the strange stuff to start happening. The flies seem to like it around the baby's crib, and the kid doesn't appear to want to drink her milk. At least not from the bottle. She'll take it from mommy's breast; but then again, it's soon revealed that what she's taking in is not milk at all, but rather blood, and it would certainly appear that this is her preferred beverage, contrary to the conventional baby foods and needs. So it's kind of like "Hellraiser", but with a screaming baby. A screaming baby that upchucks half the blood that it absorbs, develops odd and painful looking rashes all around its little body, and looks consistently sick enough to die just about any minute. But then again, Madeline doesn't look much better either. That makes sense, though; she's succumbed to depression. She's just lost her husband, and his mother won't get off her back about the baby and other unnecessary bullshit, and the baby is a loud and prevalent whiner. If "Grace" can't create great and memorable characters; it can certainly create a situation that's real and unnerving enough for us to sympathize for what they're being forced to endure. The film shifts rather abruptly from a sweet little mother-daughter relationship to a disturbing infectious horror-thriller in what feels like a blink of an eye. That probably won't sit well with a lot of people, but if you're looking for a genre picture that's a little less conventional than the rest, I think this will do. It's different, it's disturbing and best of all, it's believable. The acting is solid enough, and the direction was taut enough, for me to buy into the situation and its many horrors. There isn't necessarily a hint of greatness at any point in the movie; but if Solet can make stuff like cat food disgusting and distressing, I'd say he's a new-found talent. I understand why the film will be criticized by a lot of people. If you do not care about the characters, then you cannot care about their problems; that is an age-old theory, and let's not treat "Grace" as if it's any exception, because it's not. I admired the film because it has a simple aim - to make the audience feel uncomfortable and disturbed - and in my mind, that's just what it does. As an avid horror fan, I was quite surprised by how down-right nasty and gross some of the scenes were; particularly a few that came around near the end. Now, that isn't always a compliment; but it is in this case. "Grace" is by no means an entertaining film, but it is one that I just couldn't look away from; I blame the damn baby screams.

• Jacob P

  
  I really like the story to this one...i really do. I just think it could've done a little better, that's all.

• Chris B

  
  For anyone looking for an out of the ordinary horror film that has it's roots focused on atmosphere and a disturbing premise rather than loud and gory violence as most modern day horror films do, have found a worthwhile endeavor. "Grace" is really a disturbing and… More
  For anyone looking for an out of the ordinary horror film that has it's roots focused on atmosphere and a disturbing premise rather than loud and gory violence as most modern day horror films do, have found a worthwhile endeavor. "Grace" is really a disturbing and creepy film that is certainly not for new mothers or anyone with kids as the film really could mentally distort the viewers life views. The acting is decent and the film is recommended for anyone looking for a decent horror film that focuses primarily on mood and atmosphere instead of jump cuts and loud music to get into the head of viewers. While a little confusing, due to the extraordinary circumstances of the film, ultimately it ends up being a worthwhile and disturbing horror flick worth any horror junkie's time.

• Deb S

  
  The movie opens with a couple, Michael (Stephen Park) and Madeline (Jordon Ladd) having sex. The look on Jordan's face is detached and bored but we soon learn she's had two previous miscarriages and conclude that sex has become nothing but a tool for Madeline. We also find… More
  The movie opens with a couple, Michael (Stephen Park) and Madeline (Jordon Ladd) having sex. The look on Jordan's face is detached and bored but we soon learn she's had two previous miscarriages and conclude that sex has become nothing but a tool for Madeline. We also find out that she is a lesbian who wants a baby more than anything in the world and it's gotten to the point where she can't even take pleasure in sex anymore as she's afraid it's just going to lead to the disappointment and heartache of yet another miscarriage. Fast-forward months later and we see that Madeline is pregnant. Mike's mother Vivian (Gabrielle Rose) wants to make sure Madeline has the kid in a hospital but she wants to have a midwife named Patricia (her ex lover) deliver it. But then disaster strikes yet again as the family is involved in a horrible car accident resulting in Michael's death near the end of her eighth month that kills the baby as well. But despite what both doctors and her mid-wife tell her, Madeline's determined to carry the baby to full term and "give birth" to it naturally as planned. She's expecting a still birth but a miracle happens and she gives birth to a child that she names Grace. Not long after she gets home the baby starts exhibiting some odd behavior. From this point on the atmosphere of the film is even heavier and you just know things aren't going to end well for any of the characters involved. It seems our beloved infant is not interested in suckling mother's milk. She a very "special" child and has special needs that will make her mother go to great lengths to satisfy this hunger. Just how deep is a mother's love and how far would a mother go for her child whom she loves unconditionally? Jordan Ladd does an amazing job as a woman walking the edge of sanity who ultimately takes the leap. Her performance is so brilliant that you feel for her and can't simply write her off as some crazy bitch as she tries to hold onto the one part of her life that will make her feel whole.

• Daniel P

  
  Urgh. The neat poster art pulled me into buying this blind on DVD. Whilst this has a simple and impressive visual style combining hand-held camera techniques with tight framing and some effective close up shots, the film quite fantastically fails at selling its hook.… More
  Urgh. The neat poster art pulled me into buying this blind on DVD. Whilst this has a simple and impressive visual style combining hand-held camera techniques with tight framing and some effective close up shots, the film quite fantastically fails at selling its hook. <i>Grace</i> starts depressing, a tone it maintains throughout Madeline's labour, the still birth of Grace and the miraculous resuscitation that is the catalyst for the apparent bloodlust of the infant. After boringly stretching the film to breaking point for another hour there's then a sudden lurch into unintentional comedy come the ludicrous, OTT final section, replete with (spoiler) the now presumably romantically involved Madeline and midwife Patricia - in ridiculous disguises - and a get-out ending that reeks of sequel. Oh, and the sub-plot is tedius. Boring trash.

• Leo L

  
  Here's an interesting movie that is truly unsettling, but overly grotesque! Its story plot is abrupt, but one cannot help but watch it nonetheless. A movie that is every expectant woman's nightmare. Worthy!

• Jason R

  
  Grace boast a really great female cast with a trio of outstanding actresses (Jordan Ladd, Gabrielle Rose, and Samantha Ferris) who give stand out performances. The film itself will makes you feel very uneasy at times, but after hearing that some people had passed out during a… More
  Grace boast a really great female cast with a trio of outstanding actresses (Jordan Ladd, Gabrielle Rose, and Samantha Ferris) who give stand out performances. The film itself will makes you feel very uneasy at times, but after hearing that some people had passed out during a screening of the film, I was expecting this to be a little more messed up. Everything aside this a well acted, and well directed film, and if you like the more independent style horror film then this should be on the top of your list of must sees.

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