Abbey Grace

Have no idea what those one star guys were watching. It wasn't the best movie ever but it was a good haunted house movie that I could watch with my kids. The acting was mostly pretty good. Stacey and the dog were great, I liked the male lead, my wife not so much. Also really like the flashback Abbey Grace scenes.

The dog was the best actor in the movie, which probably explains why the first 20 minutes of the film was focused on the dog itself.... 2 stars just for effort but truthfully everything about this movie is just plain stupid and saturated in contrived pretension..

Just watched this film and it held my interest the whole way through. I really enjoyed the plot, and the pace was perfect!! Great special effects too, the highly trained vicious bedeviled and berserk dog Duke was a scary plus to the movie also. Ben one of the main characters played by Jacob Hobbs as an Agoraphobic with severe OCD seemed genuine in his acting. The other main character Stacey, Ben's suddenly possessed sister played by Debbie Sheridan brought nice realism to the strong character she portrayed.

Abbey Grace played by Maggie McNabb the central character and main protagonist of the movie, is the orphaned child who wants what was once hers returned to her, or else. Is Abbey a ghost, a demon, is she good, evil or vindictive, or all these? See for yourself you will not be disappointed !!

Despite the fact that I had never even heard about this 2016 horror movie titled "Abbey Grace", my love of the horror genre made me sit down and watch the movie, without knowing what I was getting myself into. Initially, I picked the movie up given the movie's cover.

Writers David Dittlinger and Stephen Durham put together a straightforward script, though it was somewhat on the bland side. There just wasn't enough of scary things happening throughout the course of the movie. And that made sitting through "Abbey Grace" feel like sitting through a film school project. Sure, the right intentions were there, but the movie just wasn't particularly entertaining or scary.

Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie. It was a pretty small cast ensemble, but I will say that the acting performance were actually fair, not great, but fair.

Visually then you're not in for anything great here, as the movie didn't really make use of special effects. There were a couple of attempts at jump-scares throughout the course of the 83 minutes that the movie ran for, but that was about it.

In fact, the movie's cover over-sold the movie by a landslide. Yeah, the cover was actually far more impressive than the contents of the actual movie turned out to be.

My rating of director Stephen Durham's 2016 movie "Abbey Grace" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

The first five minutes of this almost seem as if an actual movie is starting. Unfortunately, such is not the case. The plot involves a vengeful ghost and a man who "can't" leave the house mostly out of fear of germs. Another reviewer mentioned "effects", but I don't see any here. Well, the layered voice of the possessed, maybe, as an audio effect, but irritating beyond words.

Watch closely in hilarity as the actors and even the dog slip and do missteps throughout. It has the feel of watching an elementary school play. There is not the slightest sense of suspense or horror at all, only unexpected giggles.

In fact, the "vicious" dog actually looks as if he was either thrown down the stairs from an unseen stagehand or, as suggested in another scene, the area was so slippery the dog bashed his head straight down into the floor while running and slipping before a brief recovery. They actually left this in.

Then there is the bizarre anticlimactic line regarding "so this is what you were up to while I was possessed". Such deadpan humor. Too bad the rest is not that quirky.

Still, just try to hold a straight face without bursting out in giggles every few minutes. I dare you.

Better yet, have a small drink every time Ben sanitizes his hands and you will be out cold before it is halfway over.