Grace(an movie about an evil baby!)

[Darthkush]

DEAD BABIES DON'T MAKE FOR A GRACEFUL POSTER

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But damn if this isn't one.

That's (obviously) for Grace, a selection at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The film is about a women who is in an accident and saddled with a dead baby that she decides to carry to full term. The mother won't give up her dead kid and carries him around with her, wishing him back to life. The crazy thing is.... it doesn't stay dead for long. You can sort of assume where the story goes from there.

The film is actually an adaptation of writer/director Paul Solet's previous short film Grace, which starred Brian Austin Green, if that's the right word to use (can any movie really star Brian Austin Green?). This feature length version features Jordan Ladd (Penelope from Club Dread) as the mother.

I love taboo subjects like this being used for horror films, because it's one of the few topics that can make literally anyone cringe. I don't have to tell you how truly ****ed up this looks either, since you can see it for yourself in the trailer below... although be warned, this may be one of those trailers that gives way too much away-

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Spread The Word

That was from Chud. Wow, that looks I love horror movies that are an little different. I get tired of the same old thing.

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

Sounds interesting. I'll definatly put this on my 'to see' list. I like the plot and subject matter it appearently deals with. I'll check out the reviews for the film after Friday. Maybe this'll be a standout film for Sundance.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I heard about this film awhile ago. I seen the small short the feature film is based on.

I first heard about it from Adam Green who's producing it. He also directed Hachet and Co-Directed Spiral.

 

[terry78]

That would probably be the first movie poster that isn't allowed in mainstream theatres.

"Mommy, what's that red stuff in the baby bottle?"

"Ummm, cranberry juice!"

 

[RKO]

Where's the trailer?

 

[Rac]

Mmm, Jordan Ladd. I'll see this.

 

[TNC9852002]

lol.

What a lovely poster.

-TNC

 

[chaseter]

What is an evil baby going to do to someone...cry non stop until they commit suicide?

 

[terry78]

What is an evil baby going to do to someone...cry non stop until they commit suicide?

You never read that Spawn arc where Wanda has the two twins that are basically God and Satan reincarnated for being too petty.

 

[Eggyman]

I was really disappointed at the poster when it confirmed what I was afraid of: The film is just called 'Grace'.

I really wanted it to be called Grace(an movie about an evil baby!)

There's something disgusting about that poster, and I'm not sure if it's the bottle of blood or the fly on the nipple. Makes me sick.

 

[Ugfugly]

I'm willing to bet the baby is actually dead and the woman's just bat**** crazy

 

[GhostPoet]

Normally i'm not bothered by stuff like this...but for some reason that poster gives me the creeps.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Where's the trailer?

Check it out either on Chud's website or youtube.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Sundance '09: Paul Solet Talks 'Grace'

This morning we added Ryan Daley's exclusive interview with Paul Solet, director of the Sundance Festival film selection Grace. The film revolves around Madeline Matheson, an eight months pregnant woman who is determined to deliver her unborn child, Grace, naturally. When an accident leaves Grace dead inside her, Madeline insists on carrying the baby to term. Weeks later, when Madeline delivers naturally, the child miraculously returns to life... Click here for additional Sundance coverage.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/15001

 

[Johann Krauss]

Where's the trailer?

http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=11694&count=0

 

[Darthkush]

http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=11694&count=0

hmmmm..I don't know why the trailer wasn't in my original post. When I first posted the topic, I had that in there too. Weird.

It's an good trailer though.

 

[Darthkush]

first review of it that I've seen courtesy of Moriarty...

Friday, Jan 23, 2009
Sundance 2009: "Grace"

Posted by Drew McWeeny

Jordan Ladd gets maternal and mental in "Grace"

Q: How many dead babies does it take to freak out a Sundance audience?

A: Just one. Just one.

David Cronenberg is, and always will be, the king of body horror. Honestly, until his work, I don't think anyone had every approached the creeping dread we all experience about our own bodies at one time or another. Cronenberg helped create this sub-genre of horror, and these days, the avid horror fan with a region-free player has plenty of options for seeing crazy films that play on these primal biological fears of ours, films more explicit than even Cronenberg's grossest day.

Sad truth is, though, most of those films are terrible.

That's why I find myself impressed by what Paul Solet has pulled off with "Grace," a movie that is alternately impressive and too filthy to bear, as visceral an experience as I've had with a horror film in the theater in recent memory. And this is one of those horror films that you absolutely should see with a crowd of strangers in a theater. The way other people react is part of the fun with a movie like this. I know after our screening, Devin Faraci told me how glad he was he saw it with me, since I'm sort of a wuss regarding anything that has to do with babies, and I spent most of the movie practically crawling out of my skin.

See, I'm wired differently since the birth of my sons. And I'm sure that's a common experience for parents. I find I get far more emotional with far less prompting now in certain films, and, unsurprisingly, I find that there are also certain images or ideas that just plain freak me out now, or that I can't watch.

"Grace" is pretty much a laundry list of all the things that I find almost impossible to watch, and if all the film consisted of was grotesque events and vile moments, I wouldn't be able to recommend it. But the fact that all the viscera is in service of this smart, sad little story of a woman who, after two miscarriages and the loss of her husband, decides that absolutely nothing is going to take her child from her during this third pregnancy. She's determined to do everything right, to maintain perfect health, and to see this baby to term.

And, of course, the baby dies two weeks before she's supposed to deliver it, and Madeline, unable to let go and beside herself with grief, decides to carry the dead baby to full term and deliver it. She knows it's dead, thanks to the same accident that took her husband from her, and yet she wants to carry something to full term... just once. Even during the set-up for the film, Jordan Ladd does a nice job of playing a woman who wishes desperately to be a mommy, only to realize that the job isn't what she thought it would be. And neither is her not-quite-so-dead baby.

This is the sort of film that starts pushing your buttons right at the start, but then it keeps pushing them, and keeps pushing them, and keeps pushing them some more. The film doesn't really kick into "oh my god!" mode until the second half, but once it does, it delivers a steady stream of images that are so profoundly unpleasant, particularly if you've actually been through the harrowing emotional rollercoaster that is the first year of a child's life. As a parent, your one thought, your one responsibility is "Don't let anything happen to the baby," and it's enough to send you into a shrieking nervous breakdown. This movie preys on those fears, preys on the responses that are hardwired into us, and it demonstrates real control on the part of Peter Solet as both writer and director. When this comes out (I'm not sure it has theatrical distribution lined up yet, but it should), I'll make sure to go back with a group of friends.

Doubt I'll take my wife, though. There are some audiences who I believe really would be too upset by some of the content here. I know how extreme my reaction was to the craziest ideas on display here, but I'm curious to see just what this would do to someone who's actually given birth and nursed for the first few months. I have a feeling that even if they made it through the majority of the film, the last line would push them screaming into the night.

And for my money, that's exactly what a horror film should do. Disturb. Upset. Offend.

Mission accomplished.

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-motion-captured/posts/2009-1-22-sundance-2009-grace

 

[Metamorpho1977]

I liked it better the first time I saw it when it was called It's Alive. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071675/

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Anchor Bay Gives Birth to Official 'Grace' Trailer

With all of the "fainting" hype, you'll all soon be able to find out for yourselves if these people are as big of *****es as you think they are when Anchor Bay releases Grace (review) this fall. While we await on official release plans, Anchor Bay has given horror fans new footage in the "official trailer", as opposed to the earlier festival teasers that have already found their way online. Dig on it inside and tell us what you think.

GRACE revolves around Madeline Matheson, an eight months pregnant woman who is determined to deliver her unborn child, Grace, naturally. When an accident leaves Grace dead inside her, Madeline insists on carrying the baby to term. Weeks later, when Madeline delivers naturally, the child miraculously returns to life...

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/16499

 

[Prison Mike]

sounds creepy. but just because a dead baby returns to life, does that really make it evil? can't it just be a netural baby?

 

[The Apatow Crew]

sounds creepy. but just because a dead baby returns to life, does that really make it evil? can't it just be a netural baby?

Or maybe it's something else, you don't know until you see the film.

 

[WeaponXProject]

Tasteless, Sickening, Sad or the f***ing greatest idea ever!


I want to see a baby cleaver all of the doctors, nurses and alike that told mommy he/she/it was dead!

Maybe the chick is part of the "No Child Left Behind" campaign...*zing*

 

[Donnie Darko]

Probably not as awesome as Teeth, but right up that alley.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I thought Teeth was totally Meh.

 

[bullets]

I think dead babies are totally meh.