
John Chard
This childbirth thing is murder you know!
Oh no, not another evil child horror film I hear you cry! Yet theres something very fresh about Paul Solets movie, its deeply unsettling but emotionally complex, even gnawing away at our inner built capacities for empathy and sympathy.
Jordan Ladd plays the mother of the piece, hit with personal tragedy time and time again, her will is tested to the limit when a car crash strips her of her husband and renders the baby she is carrying as being a sure case of still born. But shes determined to carry it to term, and when she literally wills the dead child alive, it responds in kind and becomes Grace, the miracle baby
What follows is the disintegration of Ladds character and of the key characte...