Grace: Possession

The eighteen year-old Grace (Alexia Fast) is a Catholic teenager raised by her grandmother Helen (Lin Shaye) since her mother died giving birth to her and her father is unknown. Grace joins the university and has frequent blackouts. The doctor diagnoses her and tells that she might have a mental condition, suggesting her to visit a psychiatrist. However the pious Helen brings her granddaughter home and forces her to frequent the church. Soon Grace discovers hidden secrets from her mother and the priests tell that evil is inside her.

"Grace" is a boring, unoriginal and lame low-budget horror movie of exorcism. The movie is destroyed by the awful and irritating camera work. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "O Mistério de Grace" ("The Mystery of Grace")

Yeah so the movie is in POV and sometimes it seems like it's going to be OKish but then it's not. Especially the end. It's pretty lame. That's pretty much it.

Or POV in this case ... if I'm not mistaken the Maniac remake with Elijah Wood was around the same time this came out ... maybe a bit later. So this camera thing seemed to be the flavor of the month for a bit. Like a found footage with a twist sort of thing I reckon.

Having said that, this has quite the interesting cast to boost. Of course you can never compare any movie to the Exorcist. Or rather you shouldn't - whatever movie you take and try to compare with one of best movies ever (not just in the horror genre) ... it's going to lose for sure.

Having said that, this is a decent low budget effort - once you wrapped your head around the style it was shot - no pun intended.

Wasn't terrible, but the first half was better than the second. The whole exorcism bit felt a bit overplayed and took away from the eeriness of the film.

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.