Rated R Running Time 84 minutes
"GRACE" - People have been buzzing about this film for a while saying - how good it is, how gruesome and bizarre, Is like ROSEMARY'S BABY, Okay, Whatever. Im thinking is the next IT'S ALIVE (1974) or some new cinematic classic terror to chill my blood, all you saw in the film was a rubber baby doll for the prop and a real actor baby with some red food coloring smeared all over his face (like it was done in purposely)... Madeline (Jordan Ladd) is eight months pregnant, she is vegan. She watches animal killing videos. She wants to see a midwife named Patricia (Samantha Ferris) to deliver her baby, but her mother-in-law (Gabrielle Rose) opposes. In a car accident with her husband Michael (Michael Matheson), Madeline's baby is dead inside her, but she is determined to deliver the baby. She goes to Patricia's house, Patricia and friends deliver the dead baby. And by some miracle the baby comes back to life. Patricia is clueless on how the baby is alive. Madeline secludes herself at home with baby Grace. And we start seeing flies buzzing around the reanimated baby. Madeline nurses her baby from milk, but the baby starts to drink more than milk - BLOOD, making the mother anemic. Madeline goes all out for baby Grace, by going to the supermarket and getting red bloody meat so she could feed her baby. Once Grace drinks dead animal blood, her body cant resist it, she wants human blood. And that's where the whole mayhem begins.
The film had lesbian repression - Madeline was an ex-lesbian/lover to the mid-wife Patricia (Samantha Ferris) and the storyline (plot hole) doesnt go into details about their past relationship, showing only Patricia as an obsessed lesbian (SHAME - ON DIRECTOR/WRITER PAUL SOLET for not developing the lesbianism further, another celluloid closet case). The acting was not the best. The film was a simple narrative story with plot holes with a dead baby, with some blood and gore splatter. And whatever... ONE Star out of FOUR.
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