Well, let's see here, I've been busy touring continental Europe with my favourite band this past month, and as a result, I've not seen many films lately, and this is a PG-rated found footage flick, which didn't get a Thursday night preview screening, and only has a scant IMDb page , doesn't have a Wikipedia page at all, or a Boxofficemojo page, and its Rotten Tomatoes score is a zero.

So, obviously, it's just calling my name, and begging me to review it.

I didn't even know this was a thing that existed until I saw its name ( misspelt as, Gracefeld Inciden ) on the cinema marquee.

Moron is filming his wife, not paying attention while he is driving to hospital for wifey's ultrasound​, gets into an accident, loses an eye, and his wife loses the child. She stays with this moron, and ten months later, he is building a plastic eye with a video camera in it, ( in a scene which vaguely reminded me of the eyeball scene from The Terminator ) to record every​ second of a trip to a cabin in the woods with friends.

This sextet witnesses a meteor crash, finds a rock nearby it, takes it as a souvenir, and is set upon by an unseen creature in pursuit of the rock, which it turns out, has its unborn offspring in it.

Ridiculously complicated setup for a generic found footage flick, where logic and cohesion goes out the window in favour of shaking the camera, and plot goes out the window in favour of expositional dialogue, which this film is loaded with.

They try for a deep and meaningful, profound twist ending, and fail so miserably.

Again, this is a ridiculous movie, with a couple of lengthy, one-sided lectures about child birth being a " gift " , and from out of nowhere scenes about the lead character's alcoholism ( which isn't mentioned any other time ) which is worthwhile only for unintentional laughs.

I was never mad or angry at this movie, just bored, which is why I rated it 3/ 10, but really, there's no reason to watch this, even for free on Netflix. The biggest surprise was that I was not the only person in cinema for the showing. There were a half dozen people there with me for this one, which is more than can be said about Phoenix Forgotten, from earlier this year, or even Free Fire.

Without the opening and closing credits, the film is only about 75 minutes long. ( Edit: apparently, this was filmed sometime in late 2013 or early 2014, as proved by the date the trailer was posted on YouTube, 19 May 2014: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z1p1Ms_BXM4 , but then heavily re-edited, with entire subplots about government conspiracies and cover- ups dropped, not released until July 2017 )

There were so many clever and new ideas that I have never seen in any other movie, let alone any found footage movie, but the movie was way too heavily edited to be found footage, for example the (rec) symbol is on everything, the eyeball wouldn't record audio and if it did, it would be very muffled:FIX: create plot where he wears an external mic.

The voices of the characters sounds like they were recorded in a studio and just dubbed in:FIX: use the natural audio from the DSLR and the... go-pro?... because it is actually supposed to replicate found footage.

The night vision effect was just plain lazy:fix:use an actual night vision camera and not a green filter... your not fooling anyone.

when he moved his eye his other eye moved too... I mean there are no muscles attached right? I'm not a biologist... and I think it would make great comedic relief if his eye just stayed in place

another thing that bothered me was that there was a soundtrack... do I really have to explain.

I don't know what anyone else looks for in found footage, but I look for realism and even a toddler can tell that its fake... and that not good.

the hype made me really want this movie to be good... but sadly it wasn't

other than that it had a kinda unique story to it that had so much potential..... probable remake????????????

So I'm giving this movie a 3 simply because there's some decent tension and jumpy bits. The acting is definitely some of the worst I've seen, especially from the main actor. The plot is ridiculous... I mean lose an eye in an accident then create your own prosthetic eye with a phone camera inserted into it to justify an angle for the real life footage. The full creature fx are poor, with very poor animation. But the sections with an arm or a hand are quite good at providing jumpy scenes.

And the balloons...the balloons...

Only worth a watch if absolutely nothing else is on

I created a profile purely to rate this film as terrible. Like, truly awful. If I could go back in time and punch myself in the dick for ever wanting to see this film, I would. The acting is terrible but I can see the story working in some way. if it wasn't in this film. do yourself a favour and watch something else.

Idiotic sci-fi, from someone who's attempting to escape the "found footage" label by crossing over into "found eyeball-cam footage". See? These two things are not the same at all! Are you blind, or what?

Spoilers:

Our director.Mathieu Ratthe, takes the lead acting honors as "Matthew", a man who becomes involved in an auto accident as he takes his pregnant about to give birth wife/girlfriend/ partner/ whatever to the hospital. Crash. No baby, but Matthew survives, as does the significant other. Months later, he sets up his empty eye socket (evidently a souvenir from the earlier accident) as a camera! He's going on an outing to a remote luxury cabin with his recovered gal pal and other friends (all of whom are millennial douches) for some relaxation.

All the men in this waste of time look alike. Scruffy half-beards bristle, but none of that five o'clock shadow can save them from their own stupidity. They reach said remote cabin and party! Party! Party! While getting down, a something whizzes overhead. Meteor? UFO? Bottle rocket? You can guess. Idiot eye-cam guy and his unshaven pals follow the whatsit into the woods. In a scene directly lifted from 1958's "The Blob", our bristly guys find the flaming something and handle the object without protection, because they're excited to have found this unknown visitor. No one pays attention to what might happen.

Later in the evening (this whole mess occurs during one night), the party monsters are subjected to scary noises and TVs that keep broadcasting a mysterious image. Stupid people wander around in the dark following said noises and fleeting glimpses of well, aliens. You knew this already and hope the whole mess you're watching is over soon. Did you figure out that the freezing "thing" the beard growers found in a dark hole in the woods was an...egg? Yes! Some CGI alien evidently dropped it's frozen progeny from a spacecraft (how that happened is anyone's guess)and is just trying to get Junior back on the spaceship. Mr. Eyecam and Co. run around breathing heavy and acting afraid, until the end, when the alien gets Junior and beams up. Months later, Mr. Eyecam and his gal pal have a baby! Will there be a sequel?

A terrible waste of time which is why fast forward on any device was invented. Shaky cam, ridiculous behavior from all the characters, stolen ideas from "The Blob", "Signs", "The Blair Witch Project" and other, more inventive scare-flicks. I should have known better when I saw the "Gracefield Incident" title, which is another way to lure viewers who instantly think this might have something to do with the "Cloverfield" franchise.

Recommended only for those with five day stubble who look like their bro pals and their whiny girlfriends stuck in the woods and have no sense. Stay away from this crap, the only innovation is the eye-cam, which ultimately serves no purpose other than a novelty. That point of view disappears about halfway through this paste-up of other, better and more compelling movies about wandering in the woods with a failing flashlight.

Matthew and Jessica are on their way to the hospital. Jess is pregnant and they're going to their second ultrasound to learn the sex of the baby. Matthew is recording a video journal and in the midst of it, they get T-Boned.

The accident causes Jess to miscarriage, but also takes out Matthew's right eye.

One year later, Matthew is installing an iPhone camera into a prosthetic eye to record a party over the weekend.

Along with two other couples, the weekend excursion is at Matt's boss's house. His boss is letting them use it as part of recovery for Matt's accident. He's also a conspiracy theorist/trapper and built the property to catch a sasquatch.

Matt's friend Joe brings along his new DSLR camera and is also frequently recording.

During the party, a meteorite hits and Matt and Joe go to investigate...

That's essentially the jist. Mathieu Ratthe wrote and directed what could have been a brilliant movie. Instead what we got was something that was almost good.

The acting was at times forced and wooden. Other times it wasn't terrible. The plot involved stupid people doing things they shouldn't be doing - like sticking their arm in a strange meteorite. There seriously could have been a better catalyst for everything. The ending was a bit disappointing as well. It wasn't badly written, but I felt it was badly delivered.

That being said, there WERE some good points in this. The movie involves aliens (not sasquatch), and we only truly see the alien at the end (see my previous statement). The scenes where the alien is involved have great tension and deliver some pretty good jump scares.

Also, the direction is done really well. The cast may not have done a great job, but Mr. Ratthe has his vision and I only hope he improves. Also, the production values were very good for being a low budget film.

As some people know. I've become a fan of found footage movies over the years. The best in recent memory were Chronicle, The Frankenstein Theory, Diary of the Dead, and of course, Cloverfield. With a little more refinement this could have joined that group. In fact, this could have worked out as a Cloverfield movie. If it had a bigger budget...who knows?

All in all, the bad in this outweighed the good. The potential to be great is there. Mr. Ratthe just needs a little more time and the right support behind him.

Frankly, I hope he gets it.

Shitty footage, incredibly secondary plot, stupid story, awful dialogues, hysterical and annoying personages, talentless acting, no directing, techniques we saw billions of times. It cannot even be spoiled as there's nothing to be spoiled: several idiots in the county-house behaving like imbeciles right from the scratch - and this is obviously supposed to - whooooo! - scare. this is not a movie, this is garbage, just garbage.

The Gracefield Incident... I don't usually write reviews, I'm more of a creepy scroll through kind of person, but this ladies and gentlemen is an exception.

To start off, I'm not going to basically regurgitate the script like most user reviewers on here. I'm simply going to explain my thought process while watch this 'film' (I use the term loosely here).

From the opening scene I knew I was in for an average journey of misplacing 90 minutes of my life. The lead protagonist and his iPhone camera supported eyeball was almost enough for me to turn it off and put it on the list of easily forgettable movies. Instead, I proceeded to endure. The acting was so bad, I thought to myself, 'this guy has to be the director, no one would have cast him otherwise'. So after a cheeky IMDb search, bingo! Writer, director and star Mathieu Ratthe. His laughable attempt at an American accent was irritating beyond belief, and this is coming from an Australian. The writing is terrible, with horrible dialogue, delivered by a group of people who couldn't get a job at local school production.

As it continued, I couldn't really put my finger on who the lead reminded me of, and then.... it hit me! Tommy Wiseau, the infamous creator of the now cult film 'The Room'. From the inaudible dialogue, to the over acting, to the scenes filmed in night vision that have been clearly film in daylight with a green filter added in post-production. I'm assuming this copycat of every other found footage film ever made will reach that status though.

In the end, what really annoyed me was the premise and idea was actually pretty good, I was excited to see it. Now that I have, I feel as though I have lost precious brain cells. If you feel the need to waste some time, by all means give it a go, but please fellow IMDBers, let me be your guinea pig. It hurt, and I don't want to go through it ever again!

This is Ratthe's first acting gig and first attempt at a full length film. He has done 3 other short films. His film inexperience shows. The story is a copy of The Blair Witch Project with aliens. It's all viewed from the perspective of a couple of video and surveillance cameras. Then there's the acting. All of the actors have minimal experience, which shows. The writing was as bad as the acting and direction. Save yourselves. Don't even watch this on HBO.

over exaggerated acting, over exaggerated voice acting. If you want to direct, don't act, cause you really suck at it. Jessica got caught looked at camera when the storm hit the living scene..so not professional. Overall, a high school project, way too ambitious too immature.

I don't think it was a waste of time and i don't think it seemed as low budget as some imply. I thought it was scary and made me jump. I also didn't mind the found footage, I like perspective it gives the viewer. But I didn't realize it was an alien flick. I'm not a fan. And I totally hate when an animal dies. I think it adds nothing to a movie.

Yet another found footage/group of friends in an isolated cabin beset by aliens movie; this time trying to justify everything being filmed by, believe it or not, having one of the characters insert a camera into a fake eye which, inexplicably includes a red recording light shining out of the lens ala the Terminator (the record light, even in micro cameras, is NOT in front of the lens and we won't even talk about the potentials for tissue irritation from inserting a home made fake eye - with red yarn for veins - into a soft tissue socket). Oh yes, and the aliens also make everyone's phone magically record for no reason - they must want to make sure they leave some proof of their visitation behind. But the upshot is that it wastes its thin premise with too much running around in the woods yelling about how they shouldn't be running around in the woods yelling; with three male actors whose deficiencies as thespians become more and more apparent the more agitated their characters get; repetitious and clunky dialogue (of the obvious and overt type - characters saying aloud what their responses are or the main guy constantly reiterating "I'm not losing anyone else" because, see, his wife lost their unborn baby in the same accident he lost his eye - which in Screenwriting for Dummies fashion had to immediately follow him saying something like "I'm just happy the baby will be healthy"); and last, but not least, all of the inconsistent alien behavior and random powers and attributes as if they spring from the collected history of ALL movie aliens and NOT a specific species or technologically developed society (and this includes a spaceship design inspired (or just poorly copied from) Close Encounters. I wish filmmakers would think these things through with intelligence and creativity instead of throwing everything against the wall and settling for anything that sticks. I appreciate the constraints of low budget film-making but, in the end, there's still no excuse for stupid.

If I had known this was a "found footage" type of movie, I would have never watched it. Unfortunately, once I start watching a movie, I have to watch all of it. Rarely have I hated this compulsion more.

**** Spoilers ****

The movie starts with some narcissistic putz paying more attention to his camera than to his surroundings with the result that he and his pregnant wife are in a car accident, his wife loses their baby, and he loses an eye. In the accident scene, his right eye is obviously injured. In the very next scene, he has a patch over his left eye. Over the next five to ten minutes, the injury goes from right to left and back again a few times. One would think that someone involved with this production would have jotted something like "it's the right eye, idiots" on a post-it note or maybe the actor would have realized that something was amiss, but apparently not. This pretty much set the tone for the entire movie.

Obviously not having learned the dangers of ridiculous levels of narcissism from the accident that killed his unborn baby, the guy makes a prosthetic eye camera -- complete with epoxy and strands of ... stuff! Bet that felt good in his raw socket. He, the Mrs. and four friends then take a trip to a cabin in the woods. Overused cliché, anyone? Oddly enough, everyone seems perfectly content with letting the one person in their group without depth perception do all the driving.

What followed was a display of overacting rarely seen outside the confines of late night infomercials aired only on the really cheap channels, as our heroes raced back and forth through the woods and corn fields, cameras a-shaking', while aliens grabbed at them from the dark and took their clothes. Apparently this was an attempt at communication. Why beings capable of interstellar travel would be limited to the meager communication options of stripping people naked and leaving cryptic crop circles isn't explained. I would think that such an advanced species might realize that a simple, "I say, ol' chaps, that thing you found is ours, and we would like it back," would be more effective.

The final thing that made me groan was near the end when the guy was reviewing the video from his camera eye and came across footage of the accident at the start of the movie. You know, video from a time when both his eyes were real (although one was a bit deflated). I suppose he could have copied the video over to his eye from the camera he was using at the time of the accident, but why?

I would have given this movie one star, but the dog in it was really cute and gave a better performance in his thirty seconds of screen time than any of his human costars.

Pfuuu... where to start.

OK, we go with bad things and the good things

Bad: Unlogical thinking like, screaming as loud as you can when you trying to hide or to be unseen. After you saw a creature as tall as a tree you still go to sleep with opened windows, having whole area including interior, exterior of the cabin under surveillance but not keeping an eye on monitors, not waking up anybody even there is a monster inside the cabin, having night-vision on camera but wont use it inside the cave etc etc etc. Things like these are bad in movies, but in this case these weren't the worst... acting. 80per of the movie you will not believe any of the actors (the only bright exception was the girlfriend of the main guy... don't know what was her name and honestly I can not care less. But few times she acted really like an actress... actual actress), but acting was still not the worst part of the movie... that one belongs to the voices. Terrible editing and mixing. It does not matter how far away from each other everyone was, doesn't matter what other sounds were in the same time there, You can still hear everyone the same volume.

Good: Nothing ... OK, its about aliens... that's it

Summary: Terrible. In bad things I wasn't talking about the story, because by itself it might have been good, but everything else killed it. Including terrible ending.

I am really big fan of horror, sci-fi, mystery etc movies... but this one I wouldn't recommend. Its not the worst movie I have seen in my life, but its probably not worthy of anybodies time

Saw 'The Gracefield Incident', being fond of horror regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre) and being intrigued somewhat by the idea. Was also a bit apprehensive, because of having a general dislike of "found footage" films. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to reviewing it.

Unfortunately, despite not reading any reviews purposefully before watching, am going to have to agree with all the reviewers who disliked 'The Gracefield Incident'. It doesn't even start off good, with an opening that immediately betrays inexperience technically and narratively, and rapidly got even worse by a second half that makes one not want to keep watching. Never judge a film without seeing the whole thing and wanted to give 'The Gracefield Incident', so gave it a fair chance. There are worse "found footage" films, but on top of looking cheap there is nothing new or interesting and it does contain some of the worst sound editing, script, camera work and acting seen in a long time and ever.

Setting is spooky, but wasted by the cheapness of the rest of the production values.

However, so much brings 'The Gracefield Incident' down. Everything is doused in inexperience and the direction fails to generate any tension or suspense with the direction of the actors being abysmal and continuous struggles in making things coherent. Too much of the soundtrack is intrusive and ill-fitting, made worse by the excessive, terribly and cheaply recorded and obvious sound effects that just cheapens the mood. The "found footage" camera work is enough to make one physically ill and has no coherence.

Where 'The Gracefield Incident' most underwhelms is the writing and story. The writing is incredibly lazy and so cringe-worthy taking it seriously is impossible, it's awkward in dialogue, very confused as a result of not tying things up or going into full detail and doesn't feel complete.

Story, one can actually be forgiven for mistaking the film as plot-less, suffers from a very limp pace apparent early on and gets slower and slower until an interminably dragged out second half. It further suffers from feeling too much like a short film stretched out with a lot of useless padding and repetition.

None of the characters are likeable, little is learnt about them and they are annoying, the inconsistent, utterly face-palming stupid and illogical motivations and decision making bring them down further. The acting ranges from bad to downright terrible, a lot of sleepwalking and histrionics and that they don't seem to care about their situation let alone frightened of it is especially obvious.

For a film billed as a horror, there is very little interesting and nothing remotely scary. They are too few and are far too predictable, anaemic and weakly timed to make impact, with the lifelessly dull pacing and obvious sound effects cheapening them significantly.

'The Gracefield Incident' doesn't engage let alone thrill, and a lot of it is silly to unintentional hilarity and doesn't make sense with a fair few loose ends. No creative moments and the poorly used aliens look goofy and lack any kind of menace. The ending is a head-scratcher, both in confusion and how little it feels like an ending.

Overall, the potential was there but the execution far from was. Really awful, unless you're curious about seeing it it's best to avoid this. 1/10 Bethany Cox

The Gracefield Incident starts promisingly, it even comes up with a concept to justify the whole thing being recorded and I started to think this might surprise.

Alas it didn't, in fact within about 20 minutes it soon descends into that found formula footage we've had shoved down our throats for the past couple of decades and brings no originality to the table.

Group of 20 somethings go out to have fun in a secluded cabin and become targeted by aliens. Thats basically it.

Kudos to them for the sfx because though they aren't fantastic at least they didn't do the usual thing of not showing you anything to keep the budget down.

The film isn't without its moments but ultimately this is just yet another flawed found footage mess.

The Good:

Great twist on the justification for still recording when crap is going down

Nice selection of movie posters

Decent enough start

The Bad:

Becomes real generic real fast

Lifeless cast

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

In the presence of evil aliens even balloons will flee

To start, I'm not an educated film critic. I watch movies for entertainment value, mostly. I watched The Gracefield Incident to be entertained and I was.

When others say this is the worst movie/acting/soundtrack ever, I don't think they've seen: All Hallows Eve: October 30th, The Yearly Harvest, Chameleon Shadow, 666: The Beast, or Creeper, just to name a few. Watch those and The Gracefield Incident will move to a 10 star film.

Don't go in the woods...alone! - Take all the other characters with you so they can be killed off as quickly as possible! This 2017 film is about some extremely annoying young people who venture into the woods and get chased (and eventually killed) by an alien in search of its baby.

NOTE: Avoid at all costs.You have been warned.

This movie, though predictable, would have had some merit had it not been for the woeful script. The characters portrayed come across as mindless morons as a result. The question "What's going on?" repeated over and over does not a great script make. This movie has really gotten me over the whole "first person" view style of movie making so at least, thanks for that.

The movie is sci-fy found footage movie with a average script. The plot is not that bad despite being kind cliché(Bunch of random people going to a cabin in the middle in the woods and a monster appears), but it's filled with a lot of problems and clichés found in this kind of movie. The movie try to cover up one of them making the main characters is wearing a camera as an eye, but don't work very well (Especially when they also use a normal camera in the movie). But I think the ending was good.

It don't exist much comment after that. The acting is pretty bad, the jump scares are the basic you found in any found footage movie and the characters are forgettable.

I really enjoyed watching this film. While it does start off as a typical sci-fi "found footage", (and I placed that in quotations because it's not really footage that was found, as we are seeing what's happening through the cameras in real-time), the movie places its effort towards building up the climax. the finale was also very well done and leaves you feeling satisfied. The horror and the mystery behind the horror is well polished and that constant irking feeling you get as the tension builds up is washed away once you get into the ending, as it delivers what you feel you deserved to see.

Great film, would love to see similarly developed films in the future.

Contains plot spoilers: Matt loses and eye and installs a camera in his eye because a house and land with cameras and everyone having a camera didn't cover enough. Three couples go to a cabin in the woods where there are Big Foot sightings, crop circles, and aliens. When a meteor lands nearby, Matt gathers it up and the fun begins.

The film would have been fine had they not insisted on making this a found footage film with shaky cameras waiting until the end for us to see the alien. From what I understand from the premise of the film, baby aliens are somehow formed in space and tossed to the earth to remote areas of Canada where the parent lives. Needed more of an alien back story.

No sex or nudity. I didn't catch any swear words.

I watched this with little to no expectations and the early parts played out in a pretty predictable and cliché cabin in the woods kinda story, but it surprised me towards the end. It's nice. I don't think these reviews and ratings are fair. I've seen so many horrible found footage horror and sci-fi movies but this one's good.

This movie is terrible. And not even the enjoyable type of terrible.

I'm a person who loves sci-fi and horror movies, and I'm very forgiving towards B-rated and independent films in the genre. I'll cut it some slack if it's entertaining. I even enjoy the semi-well-done found footage movie.

The Gracefield Incident isn't even entertaining. It's distractingly bad. The acting is terrible and the dialogue sounds like it was added in in post, the script is terrible full of stupid, forced exposition that doesn't make sense, the characters are instantly forgettable, and the completely lack of logic and inconsistencies drove me crazy (um, the phone tied to the longest balloon string in the universe, anyone?).

It's less than 90 minutes, but spare yourself nonetheless.

I wanted to stop watching this within the first 20 minutes, but I hung in there on the off-chance it got better (it didn't) and the chance it might be on the HDTGM podcast someday.

Watch something else.

This film was let down by the dreadful acting. The cast were simply awful. At one point I thought it was dubbed because the character Joe's voice was bizarre. Seemed like he was shouting his lines in a voice-over and he did shout every line! I have however given it a 7 because the special effects were very good and I enjoyed the story. The end in particular made a refreshing change. It has some great jump scares the 'something in the wolf's were the best I have seen in a very long time. I would say the budget was spent on the special effects and the department that created them are wasted on B movies! I have to thank the creators for a very good movie let down by a terrible cast and awful dialogue. 10/10 for special effects, 3/10 for the actors and dialogue