ShangLuda
Admirable film.
AutCuddly
Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
Matylda Swan
It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.
Peter Kourakos III
Matthew and Jessica are on their way to the hospital. Jess is pregnant and they're going to their second ultrasound to learn the sex of the baby. Matthew is recording a video journal and in the midst of it, they get T-Boned.The accident causes Jess to miscarriage, but also takes out Matthew's right eye.One year later, Matthew is installing an iPhone camera into a prosthetic eye to record a party over the weekend.Along with two other couples, the weekend excursion is at Matt's boss's house. His boss is letting them use it as part of recovery for Matt's accident. He's also a conspiracy theorist/trapper and built the property to catch a sasquatch.Matt's friend Joe brings along his new DSLR camera and is also frequently recording.During the party, a meteorite hits and Matt and Joe go to investigate...That's essentially the jist. Mathieu Ratthe wrote and directed what could have been a brilliant movie. Instead what we got was something that was almost good.The acting was at times forced and wooden. Other times it wasn't terrible. The plot involved stupid people doing things they shouldn't be doing - like sticking their arm in a strange meteorite. There seriously could have been a better catalyst for everything. The ending was a bit disappointing as well. It wasn't badly written, but I felt it was badly delivered.That being said, there WERE some good points in this. The movie involves aliens (not sasquatch), and we only truly see the alien at the end (see my previous statement). The scenes where the alien is involved have great tension and deliver some pretty good jump scares.Also, the direction is done really well. The cast may not have done a great job, but Mr. Ratthe has his vision and I only hope he improves. Also, the production values were very good for being a low budget film.As some people know. I've become a fan of found footage movies over the years. The best in recent memory were Chronicle, The Frankenstein Theory, Diary of the Dead, and of course, Cloverfield. With a little more refinement this could have joined that group. In fact, this could have worked out as a Cloverfield movie. If it had a bigger budget...who knows?All in all, the bad in this outweighed the good. The potential to be great is there. Mr. Ratthe just needs a little more time and the right support behind him.Frankly, I hope he gets it.
John_Wagenvoort
This movie, though predictable, would have had some merit had it not been for the woeful script. The characters portrayed come across as mindless morons as a result. The question "What's going on?" repeated over and over does not a great script make. This movie has really gotten me over the whole "first person" view style of movie making so at least, thanks for that.
RobinFlys
To start, I'm not an educated film critic. I watch movies for entertainment value, mostly. I watched The Gracefield Incident to be entertained and I was.When others say this is the worst movie/acting/soundtrack ever, I don't think they've seen: All Hallows Eve: October 30th, The Yearly Harvest, Chameleon Shadow, 666: The Beast, or Creeper, just to name a few. Watch those and The Gracefield Incident will move to a 10 star film.
Paul Magne Haakonsen
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.
