Grace

Grace: 2009

Modern horror is a hit and a miss. What seems to be popular is remakes of classics we used to love, but these remakes are really fucking terrible. Classics like Halloween, Friday the 13th, Last house on the left and many others destroyed by mainstream Hollywood. Todays generation doesn't deserve the past, they deserve their own brand of films. The problem with that is todays entertainment kinda took a turn for the worst, making celebrities out of reality tv to internet people and the heavy use of CGI which makes movies lazier. You can see that when a new horror movie comes out thats not a remake it's really gotta struggle to get its praise. 2009s Grace is not only hard to watch but it's a beautiful film on ones women struggle of motherhood.

Meet Madeline, a hip vegan women who is pregnant and desperately wants this baby. Madeline wants to have this child with a midwife (with who I think had a lesbian affair with in college) but her mother-in-law refuses it because shes a WASP cunt. When Madeline gets in a car accident leaving her husband and unborn child dead she looses her mind and decides to carry the baby to term. When the time comes to deliver Madeline lays in a hot tub filled with her own blood and her dead child. After willing it back to life Madeline is ecstatic to finally have a child, but every blessing has its burden. This newborn named Grace is attracting flies, shes losing hair and bruising easily, and worst of all shes not eating. Madeline ignores the fact her child is a zombie and lets a series of horrific events happen.

Grace gives the feeling of Rosemary's Baby just without the satanism. Both share similarities in the fact that whats supposed to be the most happiest time in a women's life turns out completely terrible and that despite their children being monsters they still care for them with love. It's a feminists horror film, you watch Madeline being a mother the best she can and her mother-in-law struggle with the death of her son and breast feeding, and you see the mid-wife cope with the fact her lesbian lover is married and comes to the rescue. Women here are seen in an honest light and it doesn't shy away from feminist concepts.

You can achieve an excellent horror movie without heavy amounts of violence and CGI. Granted a violent bloody slasher film is always great but you need a break from them once in a while. The gore was at a minimum and it technically wasn't scary, just uncomfortable to watch. If you're a man who doesn't want his girlfriend to ever get pregnant this is the movie to watch. Love it or hate it Grace is a wonderful film to watch.