Grace

2014 "Innocence ends in blood"
4.6| 1h27m| R| en
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A unique horror film told from the first-person perspective of Grace - a naive, virginal college freshman trying to deal with campus culture and her outgoing roommate as an evil entity takes over her body and unleashes chaos.

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Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?
Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!
StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Nigel P Alexia Fast plays Grace, a virginal, sweet, repressed girl who may or may not be in the possession of a demon. At first, her induction into college is trouble free, but what with hallucinations of death, feinting spells, nightmares and an inability to truly 'fit in' (despite her best efforts), she is soon taken back to her home, and her puritanical, purse-lipped grandmother who has long since been her Guardian. Poor Grace is barked at, shouted at, talked down to, bullied and ordered around against her will, before the inner evil she carries is let out in a climactic finale which exposes the reasons for the demon's mission of retribution. What sets this apart from virtually every other horror film I've seen is that everything is seen from Grace's point-of-view: we are her eyes, we see first-hand how she is treated, we feel her pain. At first, this threatens to be a clumsy way of story-telling (the only times we actually see Grace is in her reflection in mirrors, the rest of Fast's performance – apart from vocal – is the nervous ringing of her hands and fiddling with her dress to demonstrate unease), but very soon, we have become used to this painstakingly achieved way of telling a solid possession story.The cast are great. Apart from the excellent Fast, there is Lin Shaye as the shrew of a Grandmother (herself an outcast from her fellow church-goers) and Alan Dale as Father John, the man ultimately responsible for all that is happening. His drowning in holy water is too mild a punishment for him.The exorcism at the end, where effects come to the fore, still being shown from Grace's POV, nearly lapses into cartoon CGI, but manages to avoid that before an 'Exorcist (1973)'-style denouement.
begob The best horror of 2014.The POV camera is more than a gimmick, and really comes into its own in the final conflict.This is a simple story of possession, with stock elements of religious repression and a cruel grandmother. There is a dark secret to do with sex, which is revealed at about 60 min and isn't unexpected.The POV technique gives an engaging insight into the heroine. I imagine this was real difficult for the director and actress to get right, but they succeeded. The only draw back is you don't get to see much of the beautiful actress. Also I thought a couple of scenes were prudish - I'm sure they thought hard about the POV, but it should give a full experience.None of the characters from the college scenes appears later on (apart from one hallucination), so that's a problem with the structure of the story.The real strength is the new angle on the exorcism rite, and the shock of the demon taking control. Makes for a powerful ending.Amazed only a few hundred have rated this movie, and more amazed they rated it so low.7/10 - for a horror, that's top marks.
kiara_cooper This is the first POV movie I have seen (that hasn't included a video camera anyway). I was a tad skeptical at first given how they had done it, but after the first half an hour I was completely absorbed into the movie. I could feel her emotions and smile at her small victories...The producers did absolutely wonderfully with this. I fell in love with Grace and I will watch this movie over and over and over just to see her cute little shy moments where she fondles with her dress. I don't like this just for the sake of it being a horror movie. I love it because it pulls you by the hand through Grace's journey. From the beginning where it seems all cute and lovely, like what you would see in one of them teen movies and then slowly but surely, it introduces the horrors, but slowly. It doesn't throw them at you, it entwines you through them and this makes for a fantastic movie. It takes a lot for me to want to watch a horror a second time - this is definitely worth the watch.
sanjidparvez The sub-genre of 'Demonic Possession' has become most frequent in recent horror movie releases & most of them turns out average or below average time-wasters. So I was quite skeptical about it, mostly after watching the trailer. The weird thing about this movie is it isn't a found footage flick but the entire film shot on POV format...from the first-person perspective, mostly of a possessed person. Now, as a POV flick with such a common subject matter, surprisingly it still turned out intelligently well made & very decent overall. The reason it works mostly for keeping all things together pretty simple with good cast & characterization and its decent flow or execution of the story.Instead of that bad trailer that not only gave too much away but also kind of provide a wrong impression about the movie, the trailer for it required to be short & cleverly done, IMO.