The unborn become the ravenous undead in this elegantly nasty trip to the dark side of politically correct parenting. “Treats its audience’s sense of propriety the way a baby treats a diaper.” — Variety
“Treats its audience's sense of propriety the way a baby treats a diaper.” — John Anderson, Variety
Screened as part of NZIFF 2009
Grace 2008
The unborn become the ravenous undead in this elegantly nasty trip to the dark side of fertility treatment and politically correct parenting.
“Rosemary's Vegan Vampire Baby would be a fine title for Grace, a satirical creepfest that mines modern motherhood for all its latent terrors: Breastfeeding. Baby monitors. Mothers-in-law. Splatter freaks will suckle on Grace's high corpuscle count and others will laugh at the sendup of post-natal obsessiveness. But progressive parents beware: When the movie's besieged mom fixes her problem child a bottle filled with meat juice squeezed from plastic-wrapped beef roasts, you may just lose your mind... The proceedings are peppered with spasms of violence that are alternately sick-funny and downright chilling, but don't cancel out the intelligence, or at least drollery, with which so much of the film is put together... It's both hilarious and politically piquant.” — John Anderson, Variety