The Gracefield Incident

Before we go on, I must digress I LOVE Found-Footage type films. This one, I had never heard of before. The name, is too, misleading. Makes it sound like some haunting somewhere. There is no set-up, voice-over or explaining on-screen titles. Only once the film had been on for a bit did I realize. It's my favorite genre, so am the true expert. This starts fast and it contains some genuine scares/frights. The reveal towards the end had my jaw drop. SPOILER SPACE:IT HAS A GREAT ENDING

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over exaggerated acting, over exaggerated voice acting. If you want to direct, don't act, cause you really suck at it. Jessica got caught looked at camera when the storm hit the living scene..so not professional. Overall, a high school project, way too ambitious too immature.

Saw 'The Gracefield Incident', being fond of horror regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre) and being intrigued somewhat by the idea. Was also a bit apprehensive, because of having a general dislike of "found footage" films. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to reviewing it. Unfortunately, despite not reading any reviews purposefully before watching, am going to have to agree with all the reviewers who disliked 'The Gracefield Incident'. It doesn't even start off good, with an opening that immediately betrays inexperience technically and narratively, and rapidly got even worse by a second half that makes one not want to keep watching. Never judge a film without seeing the whole thing and wanted to give 'The Gracefield Incident', so gave it a fair chance. There are worse "found footage" films, but on top of looking cheap there is nothing new or interesting and it does contain some of the worst sound editing, script, camera work and acting seen in a long time and ever. Setting is spooky, but wasted by the cheapness of the rest of the production values. However, so much brings 'The Gracefield Incident' down. Everything is doused in inexperience and the direction fails to generate any tension or suspense with the direction of the actors being abysmal and continuous struggles in making things coherent. Too much of the soundtrack is intrusive and ill-fitting, made worse by the excessive, terribly and cheaply recorded and obvious sound effects that just cheapens the mood. The "found footage" camera work is enough to make one physically ill and has no coherence. Where 'The Gracefield Incident' most underwhelms is the writing and story. The writing is incredibly lazy and so cringe-worthy taking it seriously is impossible, it's awkward in dialogue, very confused as a result of not tying things up or going into full detail and doesn't feel complete. Story, one can actually be forgiven for mistaking the film as plot-less, suffers from a very limp pace apparent early on and gets slower and slower until an interminably dragged out second half. It further suffers from feeling too much like a short film stretched out with a lot of useless padding and repetition. None of the characters are likeable, little is learnt about them and they are annoying, the inconsistent, utterly face-palming stupid and illogical motivations and decision making bring them down further. The acting ranges from bad to downright terrible, a lot of sleepwalking and histrionics and that they don't seem to care about their situation let alone frightened of it is especially obvious. For a film billed as a horror, there is very little interesting and nothing remotely scary. They are too few and are far too predictable, anaemic and weakly timed to make impact, with the lifelessly dull pacing and obvious sound effects cheapening them significantly. 'The Gracefield Incident' doesn't engage let alone thrill, and a lot of it is silly to unintentional hilarity and doesn't make sense with a fair few loose ends. No creative moments and the poorly used aliens look goofy and lack any kind of menace. The ending is a head-scratcher, both in confusion and how little it feels like an ending. Overall, the potential was there but the execution far from was. Really awful, unless you're curious about seeing it it's best to avoid this. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Don't go in the woods...alone! - Take all the other characters with you so they can be killed off as quickly as possible! This 2017 film is about some extremely annoying young people who venture into the woods and get chased (and eventually killed) by an alien in search of its baby. NOTE: Avoid at all costs.You have been warned.

The movie's poster/cover was what initially lured me in, because it was definitely an interesting design. And I do enjoy horror movies quite a lot, so it took very little convincing to get me to sit down to watch "The Gracefield Incident". I must admit that the storyline told in "The Gracefield Incident" was rather intense. So writer Mathieu Ratthe really managed to put together something quite interesting. And I will say that as a director then Mathieu Ratthe was also quite adept at keeping the audience in the dark as to what was actually going on throughout the course of the movie. The creature design was rather impressive and believable, which really worked in favor of the movie. Because having a movie as intense and suspenseful as "The Gracefield Incident" turned out to be, then having less than adequate creatures would be a fatal flaw once unleashed on the screen. The acting in the movie was quite good, and the actors and actresses had a lot of weight riding on their shoulders, as the cast ensemble was rather small. So everyone had to perform quite well to carry the movie, and luckily they did. One thing that stuck out like a sore thumb and a thing that I definitely didn't like, was the found footage approach that director and writer Mathieu Ratthe opted to go for with this movie. It was a real shame, because the shaky camera that is all over the place is so annoying and it takes away so much from the enjoyment of the movie for me. "The Gracefield Incident" turned out to be a rather entertaining movie, but the found footage and shaky camera destroyed it for me. "The Gracefield Incident" could have been so much more if director and writer Mathieu Ratthe had opted to go for a regular movie format.

I don't think it was a waste of time and i don't think it seemed as low budget as some imply. I thought it was scary and made me jump. I also didn't mind the found footage, I like perspective it gives the viewer. But I didn't realize it was an alien flick. I'm not a fan. And I totally hate when an animal dies. I think it adds nothing to a movie.

This film was let down by the dreadful acting. The cast were simply awful. At one point I thought it was dubbed because the character Joe's voice was bizarre. Seemed like he was shouting his lines in a voice-over and he did shout every line! I have however given it a 7 because the special effects were very good and I enjoyed the story. The end in particular made a refreshing change. It has some great jump scares the 'something in the wolf's were the best I have seen in a very long time. I would say the budget was spent on the special effects and the department that created them are wasted on B movies! I have to thank the creators for a very good movie let down by a terrible cast and awful dialogue. 10/10 for special effects, 3/10 for the actors and dialogue

The Gracefield Incident... I don't usually write reviews, I'm more of a creepy scroll through kind of person, but this ladies and gentlemen is an exception. To start off, I'm not going to basically regurgitate the script like most user reviewers on here. I'm simply going to explain my thought process while watch this 'film' (I use the term loosely here). From the opening scene I knew I was in for an average journey of misplacing 90 minutes of my life. The lead protagonist and his iPhone camera supported eyeball was almost enough for me to turn it off and put it on the list of easily forgettable movies. Instead, I proceeded to endure. The acting was so bad, I thought to myself, 'this guy has to be the director, no one would have cast him otherwise'. So after a cheeky IMDb search, bingo! Writer, director and star Mathieu Ratthe. His laughable attempt at an American accent was irritating beyond belief, and this is coming from an Australian. The writing is terrible, with horrible dialogue, delivered by a group of people who couldn't get a job at local school production. As it continued, I couldn't really put my finger on who the lead reminded me of, and then.... it hit me! Tommy Wiseau, the infamous creator of the now cult film 'The Room'. From the inaudible dialogue, to the over acting, to the scenes filmed in night vision that have been clearly film in daylight with a green filter added in post-production. I'm assuming this copycat of every other found footage film ever made will reach that status though. In the end, what really annoyed me was the premise and idea was actually pretty good, I was excited to see it. Now that I have, I feel as though I have lost precious brain cells. If you feel the need to waste some time, by all means give it a go, but please fellow IMDBers, let me be your guinea pig. It hurt, and I don't want to go through it ever again!

So I'm giving this movie a 3 simply because there's some decent tension and jumpy bits. The acting is definitely some of the worst I've seen, especially from the main actor. The plot is ridiculous... I mean lose an eye in an accident then create your own prosthetic eye with a phone camera inserted into it to justify an angle for the real life footage. The full creature fx are poor, with very poor animation. But the sections with an arm or a hand are quite good at providing jumpy scenes. And the balloons...the balloons... Only worth a watch if absolutely nothing else is on