An undocumented Filipina immigrant lands a job as a careworker for a seemingly terminal old man, securing a better life for her and her daughter. But a dark discovery threatens to destroy everything she’s strived for and holds dear.
Max Eigenmann Jaeden Paige Boadilla Leanne Best David Hayman Caleb Johnston-Miller Oliver Wellington Eugenia Low Jodie Cuaresma Seb Yates Cridland Stephanie Connell Sophie Morris-Sheppard Eva Jane Willis Gabriel Vick Jasmine Naziah Jones Rob Pomfret Hannah Knight Dominic Cazenove Saskia Rose Angelo Paragoso Faizal Abdullah Jane Ryan Mireia Espluga
레이징 그레이스, 暴怒的格蕾丝, Демоны дома Гарретов, Люта Ґрейс, 邪厄恩典, Wściekłość Grace
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🐌 Slow Horror 🐌 | 💎 Slightly Hidden Horror Gem #115 | 2012
Raging Grace is an outrageous and bizarre film that takes more twists and turns than I care to count before reaching an explosive ending. Along the way, it is a slow burn. I don't like that phrase usually but here it is the case: the film is fascinating and fun throughout, but the horror part starts late. In the meantime, the plot is very fun.
I don't know if I have seen exactly this combination of plots before. It has shades of Rebecca and Notorious, and most plot points I have seen separately in different ways, but this is a pretty unique combination in my opinion. If…
Parasite meets Get Out meets meine Mutter.
Irgendwie schaffe ich es auf jedem Fantasy Filmfest mindestens einen Kandidaten zu finden, der mich an sie erinnert.
Nur diesmal auch daran, dass ich sie wieder fest in die Arme nehmen muss und sagen will:
Danke, Mama. Für alles.
Such an extraordinary unseen gem of a film .. so superior to many films about the emigrants .. beautiful music, filmmaking, acting, writing , using the genre tropes to tell this story . Not wanting to compare but “past lives” is such an inferior film to this . So glad I saw it.
FANTASIA #24
With much of a modern Southeast Asian horror polished aesthetic, I would say RAGING GRACE is still more of a Hitchcockian mystery thriller than a pure horror, despite having a couple of set pieces which some might find frightening (I did not, but that's me).
What this film does best, along with series likes Maid (2022) and films like BLACK GIRL, is highlight the horrifying struggle of vulnerable and exploited domestic workers trying to take care of their family, escape poverty and live a dignified life; there are, however, always forces - human, not even supernatural - oppressing and holding them back. If you read any modern account of these abuses, you'll see these largely ignored real-world horrors…
Overall I think this one felt a bit underwhelming for me.
Although I understand why people are referring Get Out and Parasite while speaking of this, I think that it resembles a lot more with Nocebo for example.
It deals the issues of emigrants and how poorly treated they are sometimes.
It does make good use of social commentary inserting in it elements of horror, with some nightmarish sequences, but it doesn't really accomplishes a full state of dread, scare or unease.
Being a slow burner, with some twists and turns along the way, it doesn't really achieves that epic or shocking finale that we normally hope for in these type of movies, although being satisfactory.
The performances are solid tho, specially the child, I thought that she really embraced her character very well.
There is a somewhat bitter irony that has shadowed this film ever since it wrapped production and made its debut on the festival circuit earlier this year. For this is a film about the migrant experience—specifically the cold shoulder shown to said migrants by the British government and its institutions—that has been all but ignored by the UK film industry and the press since it premiered at SXSW in March. Precisely why is somewhat unclear, as there are plenty of good reasons why this film should be getting recognised: it won the principal Narrative Feature prize at SXSW, the first British film to ever do so, and its writer-director, Paris Zarcilla, picked up the Thunderbird Rising award for best debut…
Score : 7.5/10 ✅
Seen at Fantasia International Film Festival 2023
A transparent immigrant’s journey to stability disguised in an inventive way to reshape the haunted house sub-genre. Profoundly respectable for a directorial debut.
As long as you’re not bothered with slow pacing and suspension of disbelief, Raging Grace can hold your attention effortlessly. The film is divided basically into multiple ‘chapters’ or I should say - ‘quotes’. I didn't find any reasoning behind it at first but I guess a rewatch will fix that.
The script dives into something interesting here; Joy’s commitment to do honest work is being put to the test and even after that, she’s getting cornered into something more problematic. Interesting power structure that demonstrates how ‘not feeling included’ is suddenly terrifying.
The film is definitely worth your time but being patient with it may be required. Let’s just say that the second half is where everything starts to complement the conventional first act.
using horror as a vehicle to tell a story about the horrors of being a south east asian immigrant is simply excellent, no notes 10/10
I barely called my own grandpa Lolo; what makes you think I’m gonna call some random white bitch that.🤨
The way I watched this alone in the cinema when they finally showed it here in the Philippines made this entire experience a whole lot memorable. I was already in awe with how well-made and appealing to look at the intro is. In the Philippines, we have seen a lot of stories regarding Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) but all of them were rightfully pure drama. Raging Grace brings so much difference to the table because it is delivered thru the lens of horror. While it is not as overwhelming as I would like it as a horror film, the way they represented the mistreatment of Filipinos was for me adequate and accurate. Which in on itself, is horrific as it…
