CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Claire Dunne One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Jim McCormick Here's a morbid little bundle of joy! Madeline, a pregnant mother is involved in a car crash. She goes to the doctor & is told her unborn baby is dead. She decides to keep the baby full term, as she is obsessed with having a baby, even if it's dead. The child is born & pronounced dead, but something very strange happens, the baby thought dead comes back to life! Madeline overjoyed, names the baby "Grace." Grace is not your typical bouncing baby girl, as a matter of fact, Grace is not typical at all, as she starts to produce an odor of rotting flesh, & attracts flies. It seems as Grace has an appetite, a very peculiar appetite, not for mother's milk, but mothers blood!"Grace" is indeed a strange nightmarish film. It will not appeal to everyone, especially mothers who have had a miscarriage or still born baby. They will find this film sacrilegious to a sanctity of motherhood. The rest of us? Well, I'll just say it's not to everyone's taste, as this is truly an ugly & disturbing portrait of the obscenely unnatural. It's repulsiveness will attract us like a car wreck, we don't want to see, but we have to know. We watch in morbid fascination as baby Grace feeds off her own mothers blood through her breast, shredding & bloodying Madeline's nipples like a rat in baby human form. It's quite the disturbing portrait of depravity & a mother's desperation. Not for everyone.Those of you that have not seen this film, you're forewarned. Be prepared for the warped offensive film this is, that is somehow mesmerizing.

oneguyrambling After seeing Grace I have three choices:1) I have simply seen too many of these B and C flicks to be effected anymore. 2) Or horror filmmakers are getting lazy. 3) Or Grace is simply a bad movie.I think it is a combination of all three in this case, but if I had to point the finger I would nominate 1, just before 2 and 3.Grace is a pretty well made and well acted film, there just isn't too much to it.When you go to a DVD shop and pick up a cover, you scan the title and any quotes on the front before flicking the wrist to read the summary right?In the case of Grace, this 2 step process told me exactly what would happen in the film, start to finish. This wouldn't be a bad thing if there was something entertaining in the film, but in this case there really isn't.There are no explosions, jokes, flashy fight scenes or dramatic kills, precious little suspense and unfortunately for a horror film nothing in the way of scares.Put simply if you read the cover and think "Oh that would be gross", you've already been as impacted by this film as you would be by watching it.Now how to explain the film in a way that doesn't give anything away?As we see quite graphically in the opening moments, Michael and Madeline have finally conceived after years without success - GO ON MY SON!. Rather than have the birth at a hospital Madeline decides to use the services of a midwife named Patricia, something that her Mother in Law (M.I.L. DEFINITELY no "F") does not approve of.An incident during pregnancy escalates into an argument between the doctor appointed by the M.I.L. and Patricia, and ultimately Patricia's actions narrowly avoid what might have been a catastrophe for the unborn child.Only on the way home from the hospital the couple's car runs off the road, removing Mike from the picture and causing Madeline to miscarry. Against medical advice she decides to go to term and deliver the stillborn baby naturally.This is sooooo not a movie for mothers or pregnant women to see.After the delivery of an obviously rubber baby, Madeline refuses to allow Patricia or other nurses access to the baby, and clutches the dead infant to herself for a few minutes.Now, everything to this point sounds (and is) very realistic, this stuff unfortunately happens all the time.But this is a horror movie…Patricia re-enters the birthing room to see if she can convince Madeline to relinquish the newly dubbed baby girl Grace, only to find that she is (now) alive and suckling. Apparently this was only mildly shocking, and after a short time Madeline takes Grace home to begin their new life.I'll keep this brief from here, but it becomes a movie with two main rivals vying for Grace's attention:Grace is, like all babies, very demanding of Madeline's time and energy, and she becomes drained and exhausted tending to her every need. - The M.I.L. is initially unaware that Grace was even alive, having been told the worst after the car accident. As she has lost her only son she now becomes extremely (and grossly and graphically) maternal, and decides she wants custody of Grace.I realize re-reading this that it is a bit vague, but rather than spell it out this is a film with a very straightforward (if twisted) plot that is easily predicted, and I don't want to ruin what precious little surprise it holds.If you see the DVD cover, try not to read the back blurb, it gives away the entire film and removes any interest in the film.In my opinion though, if you miss Grace, you haven't missed much anyway.Final Rating – 5.5 / 10. Perfectly competent genre piece, just precious little to recommend in it.If you liked this review (or even if you didn't) check out oneguyrambling.com

Dylan This is a difficult movie to review because it's such a mixed bag of really good and really bad. First and foremost, the movie really disturbed me and that takes so serious doing so big thumbs up for that. The movie is also very well shot.My problems are with the abysmal writing. The movie never had a clear direction. Some really interesting plot lines never went anywhere and others were never explained. Here are just some of the problems with this movie (spoilers ahead): 1. Is the baby dead or alive? The movie indicates its normal when it is born, but then it appears to be decomposing (flies like it, temperature is too cold, skin dissolving in bath water). If it is dead, why isn't it really dead (i.e, room temperature as opposed to 93.3 degrees). Also, as a parent, you would notice when your child is that cold. It would be obvious to the touch. This mother blamed it on a broken thermometer.2. In addition to never knowing what the baby is, we never know why it is the way it is. The movie hints at lots of things like the mother's meatless prenatal diet, the animal violence she watches on TV, or the trauma prior to birth, but we never get any type of answer.3. We see way too little of the baby. I get that it's a tough subject to shoot, especially with this plot, but Christ, that's what the movie is about. I want to see this thing.4. The best parts of this movie are the scenes with the baby. As a parent with two small children I found this horrifying. But the movie abandons the baby as it spends the last 30 minutes in this short film in its crib. There were plenty of scenes where it easily could have done something cool that fit with the plot. For example, at the end where the grandmother is dying with a hemorrhaging aorta while holding the baby, how about having the baby drink the blood instead of just sitting there.5. The lack of baby actually doing crazy stuff in this movie made me suspect that the twist at the end was that the baby was completely normal and it was the mother who was trying to get the kid to drink blood. The plot was so unclear that I found myself constantly wondering such things.6. The characters behave in ways that is just out of character. Notably, the mother is an animal loving vegan, but she watches some channel on TV that is constantly showing real life killings of animals. She explains that its like watching a horror movie for vegans, but its not believable. Also, the baby is several weeks old before the obsessed grandmother goes over for a visit. I know grandmothers (who aren't obsessed) and they don't wait! 7. I never understood the relationship between the mother and the mid-wife. The movie seemed to assume we had watched a prequel with these two.8. Why was Patricia buying an RV? It fit at the end, but she had no way of knowing she'd be running off with a kidnapped monster child.9. The ending is just silly. Was it trying to be funny at the end? If it was, it failed and it didn't fit with the rest of the movie. And it was completely unrealistic. A baby drinks a lot. A human body can't even reproduce a cup of blood a day. And if you were going to give a baby your own blood, why not just put in an IV and bottle feed it. Why would you let it bite the end of your breast? Despite the many and gaping plot holes/deficiencies, I do have to recommend this movie because it really scared me.

DiamondGirl427 OK...I like horror films. Psycho characters and plot twists always can make a film even better to watch. But..this mess was anything but entertaining. The woman playing the main part seemed to be in a haze..kind of limping through her part with no real interest in what she was suppose to be doing. Yes..I know...she was a mental case, she just lost a kid...blah, blah,blah..but it was just ridiculous to watch. She has a baby that somehow has risen from the dead..no reaction there..she has to grind up meat to feed it..still little emotion..and then when she actually breastfeed...you see a few grimaces of pain...but not much..even after she begins to bleed. She avoids everyone who tries to come see her and the new infant..then begins killing to again feed her child fresh meat. If this happened in real life, it wouldn't take long for the authorities to show up and all hell would break loose...but...of course..the only one really shows any interest in what is going on is the nosy woman who ends up being killed and having her blood drained out of her. Yum. The end was even more lame...the psycho mother..fully recovered from her ordeal..of course...(there is a scar..healed so quickly it seems..wow)..and they are not riding along as a passenger in a huge RV. Mother and baby are doing fine it seems...but wait...it is time to kill again...and look...there is a place to stop up ahead. OMG...the killing is going to begin..again. AHHHH....what a waste of time it was to turn this movie on. No wonder it is on a FREE movie channel. Maybe it is just me...but seeing bloody chewed up breasts being fed to an infant is JUST TOO GROSS. There is a fine line between horror and sick stuff..this one crossed that line.