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One couple's dream turns into the worst nightmare imaginable when their unborn child is declared dead in utero, and the devastated mother insists on carrying the stillborn baby to term. Madeline Mathe... read more read more...son (Jordan Ladd) is eight months pregnant. She's determined to have a healthy child, and as such, she's adapted a pure-body lifestyle and decided to have a natural childbirth. Though her outspoken mother-in-law is adamant that Madeline receive standard hospital care during the delivery, the expectant mother has instead opted for the caring companionship of an experienced midwife. When the unborn baby is fatally injured during a sudden and tragic accident, Madeline remains determined to carry her stillborn daughter to term. Later, when the child is delivered, Madeline miraculously wills the tiny corpse to life. In the aftermath of the devastating experience, Madeline grows increasingly isolated from her family and friends, gradually realizing that something is terribly wrong with little baby Grace. Now, if Madeline hopes to keep Grace alive, she will be forced to make a series of dreadful sacrifices. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 24 min.

Directed by: Paul Solet

Release Date: August 14, 2009

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  • 3niR
    July 11, 2010
    3niR
    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 expecte... read mored 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?facebook smileys (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).

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  • dreamfaeries
    May 13, 2010
    dreamfaeries
    Disturbing. Not so much for the scariness, but for the plot itself. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
  • blacksheepboy
    March 29, 2010
    blacksheepboy
    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.
  • LorenzoVonMatterhorn
    March 29, 2010
    LorenzoVonMatterhorn
    "Love... Undying."

    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.

    ... read moresize=+2 face="Century Schoolbook">REVIEW
    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.
  • LitelBluHli
    January 18, 2010
    LitelBluHli
    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.
  • MidnightMadwoman
    January 8, 2010
    MidnightMadwoman
    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 bab... read morey - 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.
  • FilmFanatik
    November 9, 2009
    FilmFanatik
    Strange film. At times horrifying, but overall, not a perfect film.
  • thefog1331
    September 23, 2009
    thefog1331
    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 eno... read moreugh); 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.
  • Beefy
    September 21, 2009
    Beefy
    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 th... read moree 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.
  • michaelneumann
    January 14, 2010
    michaelneumann
    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? ... read more ?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.

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Critic Reviews

Michael Ordoņa
August 14, 2009
Michael Ordoņa, Los Angeles Times

It's a horrifying meditation on the unbreakable union of mother and child. Full Review

Mike Hale
August 14, 2009
Mike Hale, New York Times

Keeps you on the edge of your seat, or perhaps the edge of fleeing the theater. Full Review

Ed Gonzalez
August 11, 2009
Ed Gonzalez, Village Voice

Creepy, yes, but what's the point of all of this bratty, poignance-free bloodletting? Full Review

Simon Foster
November 26, 2010
Simon Foster, sbs.com.au

Solet's wicked slice of Suburban Gothic horror taps into some of humankind's most potent iconography and exploits that imagery mercilessly. Full Review

Adam Lippe
November 9, 2009
Adam Lippe, Examiner.com

Grace is just a stretched thin short film, as the mother-in-law with the unsettling maternal issues, the corrupt doctor, and the lesbian midwife material don't fit in. Full Review

Todd Gilchrist
September 26, 2009
Todd Gilchrist, Sci Fi Wire

It focuses on characters rather than the color red, which is why it manages to surpass many of its more prominent cinematic competitors and qualify as one of the few true must-see horror movies of 2009. Full Review

Norm Schrager
September 21, 2009
Norm Schrager, Filmcritic.com

you may never look at a baby sound monitor the same way. Full Review

David Nusair
September 5, 2009
David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

...a love-it-or-hate-it proposition... Full Review

Maitland McDonagh
August 27, 2009
Maitland McDonagh, Horror Hacker

It's hard to say who's the real monster here: Sure, the ghoulish Grace is some kind of vampire-zombie something ... but in Solet's movie (s)mother love comes in all shades of crazy. Full Review

Kurt Loder
August 14, 2009
Kurt Loder, MTV

"Grace" isn't really a horror movie, but it's gruesome and unsettling. The story could easily have been turned into low-budget genre trash; but first-time feature director Paul Solet maintains iron co... Full Review

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