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2009 · horror · thriller · music · zombie

Grace

Directed by Paul Solet1h 24m2009
ElsewhereIMDb5.28kRT74%Metacritic52
  • heavy
  • measured
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, measured, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In the wake of a horrific car accident that kills her husband, Michael, expectant mother Madeline Matheson discovers that her daughter, Grace, has died in the womb. Ignoring her doctor's warnings that the fetus must be removed from her body, a grief-stricken Matheson demands to carry the child to term -- even if it endangers her own life to do so. Curiously, little Grace emerges undead -- and with a craving for human blood.

Our read · Grace (2009) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · thriller · music entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want maternal horror where grief curdles into something hungry and wrong.

ends unsettlingit will wreck youbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips by minute 10attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upbody horrorgoregraphic violencechild peril

Skip it tonightSkip if breastfeeding gore and undead infants will haunt you for days.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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