Released this month to UK VOD
and DVD, “Grace the Possession” tells the
tale of young Grace (Alexia Fast – Jack Reacher). A somewhat introverted girl,
who was raised by her devout Catholic grandmother (played by horror veteran Lin
Shaye).
She has decided to leave home to go to college, much to her
Grandmother’s disdain, who fears she will be tempted into “sin” by her
hedonistic college co-eds. But Grace just wants to be a normal teenager and
starts to make friends and begins to get involved in the college party
lifestyle.
But then strange things start to happen, weird
hallucinations, nightmares, strange marks on the skin, then she starts
suffering from blackouts, which results in her grandmother picking her up from
the hospital and pulling her out of school. Convinced she’d been getting up to
no good, she forces her to start regularly attending church again. But whilst
the grandmother comes across as an overly protective zealot, as the
hallucinations and blackouts become worse, we find there might be a reason for
her overtly religious, protective nature.
For the most part, the film is shot from a ‘first person
perspective’, showing everything from Grace’s point of view, so it sort-of has
a slight ‘found footage’ style to it, but nowhere near as shaky. Plotwise, the film remains fairly
interesting, as we’re never too sure whether Grace is just ill and her
Grandmother is making things worse by insisting she just prays, rather than get
medical help. Or whether there is something demonic/spiritual going on until
you get near the end.
That being said, it does tread the same sort of ground as
“The Exorcist”, “The Possession” and similar other films about demonic
possession. But if you like those sorts of movies, then you should like this.
"GRACE: THE POSSESSION" arrives on Digital HD in the UK January 5 and on UK DVD January 19 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
