An engaging visual style and a compelling performance from Jordan Ladd makes this more than your average horror movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2025

Grace truly deserves an honorable mention, if not a spot, among the best maternal horror stories released in the last twenty years.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2025

This is an unsettling, uncomfortable, horrifying, and classy film that’s not to be missed.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 30, 2023

Deliberately paced but very effective, leading up to a perfect final shot.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2020

Unfortunately, Solet fails to end his movie in a satisfactory way, and that left me with a bad taste and a nagging feeling that the movie was a very bad joke.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 16, 2020

Director Paul Solet's slow yet solid pacing wears on the nerves effectively, and Ladd's portrayal of innocence and steadfast denial push the film from great to exceptional - with the help of some really exquisite gore.

Full Review | Mar 10, 2019

Grace very well could be the movie you need to see to restore your faith in the idea that there is still an artistic vision within the horror genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 10, 2011

Solet's wicked slice of Suburban Gothic horror taps into some of humankind's most potent iconography and exploits that imagery mercilessly.

Full Review | Nov 26, 2010

Grace is just a stretched thin short film, as the mother-in-law with the unsettling maternal issues, the corrupt doctor, and the lesbian midwife material don't fit in.

Full Review | Nov 9, 2009

It focuses on characters rather than the color red, which is why it manages to surpass many of its more prominent cinematic competitors and qualify as one of the few true must-see horror movies of 2009.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2009

you may never look at a baby sound monitor the same way.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2009

...a love-it-or-hate-it proposition...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 5, 2009

It's hard to say who's the real monster here: Sure, the ghoulish Grace is some kind of vampire-zombie something ... but in Solet's movie (s)mother love comes in all shades of crazy.

Full Review | Aug 27, 2009

"Grace" isn't really a horror movie, but it's gruesome and unsettling. The story could easily have been turned into low-budget genre trash; but first-time feature director Paul Solet maintains iron control of the wild material. Clearly, this is a guy to k

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2009

It's a horrifying meditation on the unbreakable union of mother and child.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2009

The sickest and most disturbing movie you'll see this year, extremely effective on every level without cowtowing to the overused formulas that have become standard in modern horror.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 14, 2009

Keeps you on the edge of your seat, or perhaps the edge of fleeing the theater.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2009

Introduces Grace writer/director Paul Solet as a new master of horror.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2009

A combination splatter flick and demon child extravaganza that succeeds in bloody special effects but fails to become an actual movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 14, 2009

It is a true original, and unlike all those remakes and retreads this is one movie that truly knows what scares you.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 14, 2009