This movie just didn't do it for me. I found the pov aspect didn't do the movie any favors, other than maybe the last 10 minutes or so. The movie was very slow but I pushed on to the end, and the pay off was pretty good. 3 stars because the lead up to the end was a waste of time.

I started watching this rubbish on Netflix. After 20 minutes, nothing had happened. I fast forward and still nothing. Go forward another 10, so 40 minutes all up and nothing. I was so bored I turned it off. Have the movie filmed from POV was no help either. It was hopeless. She spent most of the time staring at herself in the mirror. And how many times did she pull on her dress. What the heck was that about. Just in summary, keep your brain cells and don't waste them on this garbage.

Dull by the numbers hallmark possession film, I had bigger scares counting the clichés in this. It's biggest crime is taking a good cast and boring us with a script that couldn't scare the skin off a rice pudding, utter rubbish.

Jesus Christ, i hate everyone who has anything to do with this movie.

Alexia Fast plays Grace, a virginal, sweet, repressed girl who may or may not be in the possession of a demon. At first, her induction into college is trouble free, but what with hallucinations of death, feinting spells, nightmares and an inability to truly 'fit in' (despite her best efforts), she is soon taken back to her home, and her puritanical, purse-lipped grandmother who has long since been her Guardian. Poor Grace is barked at, shouted at, talked down to, bullied and ordered around against her will, before the inner evil she carries is let out in a climactic finale which exposes the reasons for the demon's mission of retribution. What sets this apart from virtually every other horror film I've seen is that everything is seen from Grace's point-of-view: we are her eyes, we see first-hand how she is treated, we feel her pain. At first, this threatens to be a clumsy way of story-telling (the only times we actually see Grace is in her reflection in mirrors, the rest of Fast's performance – apart from vocal – is the nervous ringing of her hands and fiddling with her dress to demonstrate unease), but very soon, we have become used to this painstakingly achieved way of telling a solid possession story. The cast are great. Apart from the excellent Fast, there is Lin Shaye as the shrew of a Grandmother (herself an outcast from her fellow church-goers) and Alan Dale as Father John, the man ultimately responsible for all that is happening. His drowning in holy water is too mild a punishment for him. The exorcism at the end, where effects come to the fore, still being shown from Grace's POV, nearly lapses into cartoon CGI, but manages to avoid that before an 'Exorcist (1973)'-style denouement.

Unoriginal script, there's not one scene that you won't have seen elsewhere, probably executed better. The acting was passable at best. Most of the characters were a cliche, so maybe the actors were constrained with what they had to work with, or maybe they just weren't great actors. What sets this movie apart is that it's almost all filmed in the first person of Grace. That didn't work for me, especially scenes filmed while Grace was looking in the mirror. It just felt messy and disjointed. Overall slow, predictable, and tedious. Even if you particularly like horror, there are literally hundreds of films you could watch which are better than this. Makes you wonder which film those that gave it 10 we're watching. I'm sure those reviewers were definitely not part of the film makers, production, or other crew 🙄

Worst attempted 'horror' movie ever. The girl keeps itching her clothes why? So cringe worthy and bad acting.

I don't get why anyone would want to watch a POV movie. This is, by far, the best (worst) example of why you shouldn't do it. The director belongs in jail. Blair Witch Project was a one-off. A freak of nature and something I couldn't stomach. Basically, Grace is a few million dollars wasted. I couldn't even find it on Box Office Mojo. All I felt was frustration for about 99 % of it. POV should only be used for effect in a scene here in there. And sparingly. Like a bad acid trip, for example. You cast a beautiful actress and only show her once in a while in a mirror? Come on! That camera should have been all over her. Respect your demographic (14 yo boys) and exploit that girl to the max. Any decent producer would have insisted on it. I won't even mention the lame, tired script and clumsy mise-en-scene. The priest nonsense at the end was unbearable. Ignore the positive reviews here. A typically bad Canadian movie where personality and smooth talkers get government funding and not ability or talent. Watch only if you really need a reason to take a step off that ledge.

What lured me in to watch "Grace: The Possession" aside from the fact that it is a horror movie, was the movie cover/poster, because it did seem interesting and have some odd, twisted appeal to it. And also the fact that Lin Shaye was in it had some pull as well. However, it quickly became clear that this movie was going to be one of those movies that make you curl your toes and not sit well with you. Especially so for me. First of all, I am not fond of found footage, which this luckily wasn't. But they had taken it one step beyond that in terms of camera work and made it a point-of-view experience. Are you kidding me? As if the found footage camera work is not questionable, then they had to go beyond that. That approach to the presentation of the movie was just ridiculous and it was almost enough to make me get up and turn off the movie just because of that. Then lets move on to the storyline. Well, it was as predictable as they come. And it seemed as if the writers had just previously been going through a movie marathon and written the script for "Grace: The Possession" with the impressions of those movies still fresh in mind. Because it lacked originality. Furthermore, then the movie was frightfully devoid of scares or anything even remotely disturbing or chilling, which is essential for a proper horror movie. "Grace: The Possession" just trotted along on a very generic path on a very generic mission; to be as plain and mundane as possible. And as a horror movie that doesn't rely on a proper storyline or scares, then at least a proper and impressive special effects repertoire would be to prefer. But no, not here, not with "Grace: The Possession". I will go as far at to stating that it seemed like they actively voted on not to put special effects into the movie. Again, a thing that was lacking from the movie, and dragged it further down. The acting in the movie was adequate, although it was hardly Lin Shaye's best performance. Then again, she didn't have the lead role, so it wasn't centered on her performance. Alexia Fast, who did have the lead role, was hindered terribly in her performance by the atrocious point-of-view approach the film makers opted for. If you enjoy a good and proper horror movie, then do yourself a favor and pick another movie, because "Grace: The Possession" is anything but possessed and anything but entertaining.

OK, so ill begin by saying this isn't perfect. In face far from it. I had been looking to watch this movie for a while after seeing its trailer, and I'm incredibly glad I gave it a shot. The POV aspect to the movie really gave it a unique feel to it. sort of like the movie Maniac, I felt like I was watching through the eyes of the possessed. A few scenes I felt weren't necessary to the story line. Such as the scenes in the College and the classes were sort of un-needed and some of Grace's hallucinations were very un-necessary. The scares in this movie were not as generic as I thought they would be. When first seeing this film I thought they'd be. Some of the scares were longer than brief and kept me with my hands covering my eyes for a short period of time. The scares were added well with the story too. Lets turn to the acting. This film itself contained some familiar actors/actresses, but also a few that i have never seen before. Alexia Fast plays Grace in this movie and really gives a strong performance, a lot more pressure went onto her when filming due to her having to look in the same directions as the cameras were moving, so for that i would give her credit. she did a brilliant job changing from good to evil throughout the film, and showed great emotion in her performance. Lin Shaye did a brilliant job of playing Helen (the religious grandma), and i felt like her performance matched the way she performed in Ouija (2014), i would not go as far as to say she was as good as her character in Insidious (2011). which I'd say is her career defining performance. Overall I would say this is a very basic possession movie, with the addition of the POV aspect which i think worked incredibly well. 7/10