GRACE Gives Birth At Home

Well that's a bummer.
Still, for the folks outside NY and LA, this is probably the best they could hope for anyway.

Dang. I would have much rather seen this in the theater where watching folks cringe and flinch is part of the fun.

1) Don't watch any trailers or clips.
2) Don't read any reviews.
3) Invite friends over.
4) Lose your shit.

Great movie. It made me horribly uncomfortable (much like BIG FAN but in a different way).

Wish it was going theatrical.

Same. This kind of pisses me off.

And thanks for the good word, Bateman, especially with respect to the level of unease compared to BIG FAN, which made me squirm in my seat for a good majority of the running time.

Since there really wasn't a proper post-release thread (that I could find), I figured I'd just bump this.

GOD DAMMIT. It wasn't perfect by any means but motherfucker it worked. And as...blatant as it was, it never felt gratuitous or "shocking." It just WAS. It worked me the fuck over and I'm gonna have to watch something lighthearted and funny before I can even think about going to sleep. Fuck you Paul Solet - you're a sonofabitch and I love ya for it.

One of the most horrifying movies I've seen in a long time. It seems like a cheap comparison but it reminded me of Rosemary's Baby in that it was so quiet and suspenseful that the tiniest little sound in the movie or the room had me cowering. I actually paused the movie and turned the lights on about forty minutes in hoping that would comfort me somehow.

I felt the ending was a little jarring but other than that I have few problems with it.

Honestly? HONESTLY, I don't know what all of you are talking about.

This movie was a huge letdown.


Not scary, not gross, not much of a story, extra cheap looking, and very amateur in much of the acting.
The photography was great and pacing and tone were good, but I mean - MY GOD -- Devin had been hyping this for a year and it was nearly nothing! A baby that attracts flies and drinks blood. I thought there would be something shocking here.

It's not a pimple on the brilliance that is INSIDE.

I hope you are wrong, just ordered this little bugger from a US dvd site... I hate having clunkers in my collection! Do you think that maybe the years worth of hype may have been somewhat influential in your disappoint in it? I remain hopeful!

You'd have to be a retard to compare this film to INSIDE.

Those were pretty much my thoughts when seeing it. I realise most defenders would say that the horror stems from the psychological aspects rather than from the gore but I honestly found NOTHING about it scary. The hype did hurt it a lot in that from the very first moment til the very last I was wondering ok, when is the shit gonna hit the fan?

I second the INSIDE shoutout. Anybody who thought GRACE was scary would probably die of a coronary while watching it.

I almost think you guys went in expecting something a little more superficially scary. Or if not that then you started off WAITING for the shocking stuff and you didn't let it settle in and get a hold of you from the beginning. Everything about this film was completely fucked up in a psychological and situational capacity. Yeah on paper the story beats are masturbatory fluff but the way they're executed and shown were relentless. From the underwater shots in the birthing tub to the first time we see baby Grace. Maddie peeling her blood-soaked bra away from her skin and that sound. And it doesn't help that probably the only sane character in the story was killed in a car accident (and kudos on that little sleight of hand) and the whole little world became a microcosm of severely deranged and/or damaged people. Just completely fucked up in every way.

Yeah some of the effects were a low-budget and the editing got a bit wonky in places but it never served to kill the tension or the atmosphere.

Inside is simply one of the best Horror films to come out in these last 10 years we crappily call the 'noughties'. It is finally get a release in England; alas, straight to DVD. I find this very grating when flecks of shit like the 'Prom Night' remake get cinema releases and wide exposure.

Honestly, I have made friends sit and watch INSIDE, totally unaware of what it has in store for them and they have been visibly shaken by it's full on gore and intensity.

Inside loses points because every character in it is mentally retarded causing extreme frustration for anyone watching it who doesn't suffer from some similar kind of mental disability.

Wait, why the fuck are we still talking about fucking Inside in this thread?

I would maybe consider this film "ok", if slight and relatively forgettable, had I seen it sight unseen. But with The Open Letters begging for a big theatrical release (pretty obvious why it didn't get one), and reports of people gagging and fainting in the aisles....

I just don't know.

I saw a dark little pregnancy movie. But I was begging the thing to "get to me" in some way, ANY way. I wanted to love it enough to buy it. I didn't even really LIKE it.

INSIDE was a bad comparison, I guess. Better would be THE BABY or IT'S ALIVE

Yeah it won't stick with me forever or haunt my dreams but yeah it was an enjoyable/creepy hour 1/2. Really should have cut back on the celebration of this flick.

Did anyone else here watch the Sundance feature on the DVD/Blu-ray? I noticed a quick cameo by Devin in it. I also noticed that the "two people fainted at the screening" seemed to be highly focused upon. Almost too focused upon. Like someone might be trying to create a marketing strategy by announcing it and discussing it over and over again in the feature.

I thought Grace was fairly creepy, and appreciated that they didn't make her look like the zaby (zombie baby) in the Dawn of the Dead remake.

Still, I can't think of one part of this movie where someone would honestly faint (unless they were holding their breath for three minutes, or blackout drunk). While the film was creepy and was well-made, there was nothing shocking or scary in it. And I'm talking about both the shock/gore and the psychological aspect of it.

While I've never found The Exorcist to be really scary (mainly due to my religious beliefs), I can see why people fainted while watching it back in the seventies. On the other hand, I would only expect for a few people to say "Ewwwww" or look away from the screen for a few seconds while watching Grace.

It was a better-than-average horror film, but there was definitely some hyperbole involved in the pre-release discussion, IMHO.

Ugh, too many people are confusing good, squirmy gore effects with real horror.

I like GRACE, though was never scared. It was more of a DEAD RINGERS-esque psychological/medical tale for me. That each person had interesting psychological problems was really nice for a change. I'm personally tired of that style of digital cinematography, but it didn't ruin the film at all. The acting was good, though never outstanding. Well made, with a good unnerving story, though not suspenseful. I think if I was a parent, this film would be impossible to watch all the way through.

I've sat through half (I think) of this and really like it so far. My copy keeps freezing. I don't get the comparison to INSIDE. That's a home invasion story. This is more body horror. So much of what's wrong is either coming from her mental state or her baby (that I don't quite understand but seems like a zombie) and by proxy, her womb. INSIDE is more or less a (damn good) slasher film.

So I finished this up (great way to nurse (huhuhuh) a post-Halloween hangover) and I liked it but was expecting something different from the doctor lady. Not a huge fan of the ending. Props to Jordan Ladd who is on the short list for the quintessential horror movie queen of our times.