Comments on: GRACE Review. [Did I See the Same Movie as Everyone Else?]

By: itsallaboutthewine

itsallaboutthewine — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:51:26 +0000

Does no one get that this film is about women as “food”? We biologically are designed to breast feed the next generation. These days we don’t have to (thank you science, thank you margaret sanger and all the scientists and physicians who have worked to make pregnacncy and motherhood safer and healthier and more comfortable), but the fact remains, women are , for whatever one’s accomplishments, talents and desires, food. We are also FOOD!!! The other undercurrent is that the men are almost superfluous other than to provide sprem. (Where’s the love…? :) There’s a breast fetish running through this film (e.g. like the creepy doctor with the ancient milking kit). But it’s not just men’s fixation on boobs, but womens’ focus on breast feeding and breatsts in general as being very much a part of what women are and do and what defines femininity. I thought it was at least a bit different and interesting for that reason. The scene where the mother-in-law enlists her husband for sex, but doesn’t want him to fondle her breasts–only feed from them–might be heavy handed, but it WAS creepy and the point was made. Could’ve beeen a better film or at least better as a short for what i got out of it anyway–but it didn’t seem as misogynistic or anti-mothergood, so much as at least examining some of the terror and perversity of the female biological necessity of providing food, itself.

By: Mrs.Proudfoot

Mrs.Proudfoot — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:15:30 +0000

It wasn’t so much scary as sad in a way how the mother couldn’t cope with the child’s death and her feelings brought about it’s twisted resurrection. From this point on the movie spirals towards a wonder not meaning to spoil anything but

*MIGHT BE A SPOILER TYPE THING DEPENDING ON DEFINITION*

Why did everyone think oh yes we have a vampire but we should totally keep it alive. I mean the distortion of character spread to all the main chicks and took any horror meant to be featured on the child away. I mean what was the attractionto the baby. It wasn’t that cute.

By: diana

diana — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:52:21 +0000

Just saw it and rather liked it. To answer a previous question:
Everyone knows you CANNOT feed a vampirezombie baby cow blood until AT LEAST six months. They need mothers blood.

By: JC

JC — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:06:37 +0000

I guess for me I didn’t take the movie so literally. It seemed like all the characters in the movie were “feeding” off eachother…doing things in order to get what they ultimately wanted. The movie was more about the disturbing relationships between the people in the film, rather than the baby. The baby was more of a catalyst. Honestly, I still believe that the baby was in fact “dead” (the mom took home the corpse and acted as if it were alive) and that the people who saw her as alive needed to believe in the lie in order to get what they wanted. The doctor needed the mother in law to “help with his problem” so the child had to be alive, the mother in law, of course, was grieving over her lost son, the midwife wanted to be with the mother again, and of course, the mom so desparately wanted her child. The bits with the animal slaughtering videos were just supposed to be ironic because the mom was such an animal-rights nut…but it also spoke to the notion that people do worse things to each other, sometimes justifying it as “love”, it shows that the literal eating of another living thing is at least justifyable and natural. Even if the director inteneded the baby to actualy be a living-dead child that needed blood to survive, I do believe his point was to make us more horrified at the other characters in the film.

By: nj

nj — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:13:54 +0000

K this movie has left me crazy!!! Really dont understand any of it…LOL….What was the connection between madeline and the midwife.. what happened to the bodies left in the house??? what they just skipped over that part??? Crazy///Was Grace just dead,,, and needed blood to stay alive… her temp was low,, and the flies…I dont know… thought it was gonna be different… Pretty disapointed…. Found there really was no story…. Just a baby drinking blood…. Nothing else….. Not a movie I would recomend nor ever see again……

By: M.

M. — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:41:06 +0000

I sat through the whole movie waiting for an explanation why the baby was a zombie (or just suddenly came to life). Was it because of the mother’s vegan lifestyle (stupid, but at least it’s something)? Also, when the mother fed the baby animal blood, she threw it up and instead opted for the mother’s blood – Why is this? And was there any point to the discussion about the grandmother’s breasts, and why she nursed not only her husband but (presumably) the doctor? Just a bunch of random BS that has no relation to the plot…Not that this movie had one to begin with. Okay, so mother gives birth to baby that likes blood. The end.

WOW! That movie was GREAT!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:36:56 +0000

I did not enjoy this movie at all. I saw she supposedly willed the baby back to life when she was holding it, it was rather fast and easy process. I thought it was extremely boring and slow. I guess I am just used to different types of horror movies. To me this was not a horror movie at all.

By: Peter Hall

Peter Hall — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:18:39 +0000

I’m not saying the movie didn’t make any sense. I understood the dots it was connecting for the viewer just fine, my problem is with the dots the characters fail to connect. And I further understand that’s also the point, that one Grace arrives these characters lose all grip on reality, but to me that’s not interesting storytelling: it’s an excuse to make a movie about an undead baby.

Though if Jordan Ladd’s character willed Grace back to life, then yes, I must have been high because I don’t remember that sequence at all.