Grace (2014)

Just perfect...

Fantastic!

Better Late Then Never

A different way of telling a story

OK, so ill begin by saying this isn't perfect. In face far from it. I had been looking to watch this movie for a while after seeing its trailer, and I'm incredibly glad I gave it a shot. The POV aspect to the movie really gave it a unique feel to it. sort of like the movie Maniac, I felt like I was watching through the eyes of the possessed. A few scenes I felt weren't necessary to the story line. Such as the scenes in the College and the classes were sort of un-needed and some of Grace's hallucinations were very un-necessary.The scares in this movie were not as generic as I thought they would be. When first seeing this film I thought they'd be. Some of the scares were longer than brief and kept me with my hands covering my eyes for a short period of time. The scares were added well with the story too.Lets turn to the acting. This film itself contained some familiar actors/actresses, but also a few that i have never seen before. Alexia Fast plays Grace in this movie and really gives a strong performance, a lot more pressure went onto her when filming due to her having to look in the same directions as the cameras were moving, so for that i would give her credit. she did a brilliant job changing from good to evil throughout the film, and showed great emotion in her performance. Lin Shaye did a brilliant job of playing Helen (the religious grandma), and i felt like her performance matched the way she performed in Ouija (2014), i would not go as far as to say she was as good as her character in Insidious (2011). which I'd say is her career defining performance. Overall I would say this is a very basic possession movie, with the addition of the POV aspect which i think worked incredibly well.7/10

Grace: The Possession is a film told from the devil's point of view.It stars the gorgeous Alexia Fast,the sexy siren who seduced Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher,as the Grace,a beautiful college freshman that appears to be naive about the real world.But apparently,she appears to be possessed by devil,who has complete control of her mind and body.After an incident happens at the university where Grace is attending during a party,her grandmother takes her under her care and tries to seek the help of priests to free her from the devil's spell before things really get out of hand for Grace.Alexis Knapp,Brett Dier,Joel David Moore,Clarke Peters and Alan Dale co- star with Alexa while Jeff Chan was the director of the film.The film was definitely original as it was told from the devil's point of view as I have mentioned in the previous paragraph.The viewer may somehow have to adjust watching it as we see the camera moving in an awkward way wherein it focus towards to the character while speaking.Aside from depriving us of the virginal beauty of Alexa for most part of the film,the way the director shot the film proved to be somewhat more of a distraction to the viewer especially when some scenes are shot incoherently and the camera gets shaky from time to time.As far as the story goes,there was nothing original as it was clichéd and predictable.What also bother me is it is somewhat subtly has anti-Catholic themes as it shows that Catholics including priest and deacons are helpless against the devil.Although it was pointed out that the grandmother is somewhat being punished after she left the church,it still could not hide the fact that the film portrays them to be absolutely helpless no matter how great their relationship is with the Lord.Finally,too bad that the movie wasn't adventurous enough to show something new story wise since what will be featured is something that one have already seen in other movies of the same genre.

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.

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.