before Madeline rips out part of Vivian's throat with her teeth. They are discovered by Patricia, who sees Grace drinking from Vivian's blood. Some time later, Patricia is driving a motor home through the desert. She pulls over and goes to the back to check on Madeline, who's nursing Grace. She asserts that as long as Madeline keeps eating the proper diet, they can continue feeding and raising Grace. Madeline informs her that Grace has begun teething, revealing her mutilated breast. Cast Jordan Ladd as Madeline Matheson Gabrielle Rose as Vivian Matheson Samantha Ferris as Dr. Patricia Lang Malcolm Stewart as Dr. Richard Sohn Serge Houde as Henry Matheson Stephen Park as Michael Matheson Production Shooting began on April 21, 2008, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Release Grace premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. It was released in the US on August 14, 2009. Reception Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 70% of 30 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 6.63/10 and the site's consensus reads: "Though not entirely effective as a conventional horror flick, Grace is still a graphic, disturbing, and artful exploration of twisted maternal instinct". Metacritic rated it 52/100 based on six reviews. Jon Anderson of Variety called it "a satirical creepfest that mines modern motherhood for all its latent terrors". Doris Toumarkine of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Grace whimpers a bit like Rosemary's Baby and gurgles occasionally like The Exorcist, but the video look and bare-bones craftsmanship all scream B movie." Mike Hale of The New York Times described it as a "chilly and slow-moving horror film, which plays with ideas of mother love, obsessive child rearing and liberal spinelessness, adding a helping of trendy vampirism." Michael Ordona of the Los Angeles Times called it "a horrifying meditation on the unbreakable union of mother and child". S. James Snyder of Time Out New York rated it 1/5 stars and wrote, "Paul Solet's gyno-horror flick is certainly twisted but only slightly unnerving; the movie is about as gripping as one might expect given that its infant monster is both mute and cradle-bound." Ed Gonzalez of The Village Voice wrote that Grace is creepy but questioned the point of the film. References External links Grace at FEARnet 2009 films 2009 horror films American supernatural horror films American vampire films American pregnancy films LGBT-related horror films Features based on short films 2009