Grace

The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival , Oct 1-12 2009, has an impressive female-directed lineup this year!

Sci-fi/comedy Cold Souls (Sophie Bartes), historical horror The Countess (Julie Delpy), creepy drama Ne te Retourne Pas (Marina de Van), action war movie The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow), serial killer documentary Cropsey (Barbara Brancaccio with Joshua Zeman), surrealist horror Amer (Hélène Cattet with Bruno Forzani), and animated fantasy The Secret of Kells (Nora Twomey with Tomm Moore.)

Grace, the hororr film by Scary Studs Paul Solet (February 2007) and Adam Green (August 2007), also makes an appearance. Watch the trailers for the films below...

With a limited marketing plan that includes people pushing antique baby carriages around New York and LA with baby bottles full of blood, the amazing female-led horror film Grace doesn't have much of an advertising budget. But the film, in which a pregnant woman (played by Jordan Ladd) carries a deceased child to full term and then...

With a limited marketing plan that includes people pushing antique baby carriages around New York and LA with baby bottles full of blood, the amazing female-led horror film Grace doesn't have much of an advertising budget. But the film, in which a pregnant woman (played by Jordan Ladd) carries a deceased child to full term and then... (well, I won't spoil it) is finally getting a theatrical release starting in New York and Los Angeles this Friday, August 14th!...

Review by Jim Hemphill

"Subtlety" and "nuance" are not words that immediately come to mind while viewing most contemporary horror movies, but Paul Solet's debut feature Grace is as far from an ordinary horror film as you can get. An eerie meditation on childbirth and matriarchy, it's a movie that's as intelligent as it is scary, and its hypnotic blend of surrealistic imagery and universal fears (most of them having to do with the anxieties of parenthood and love, romantic and otherwise) really gets under your skin in a way that even the best slasher flicks can't touch.

Cutie-Pie Paul Solet is one of those 'up-and-comers in the horror film industry that has everyone a-buzz. Fangoria loves him, Rue-Morgue adores him, and his short films Means to an End and Grace have won tons of awards in all kinds of film festivals. Means to an End even appeared on Fangoria's Blood Drive II DVD. Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) is said to be his mentor, but that seems so silly since Paul's films are much better than Eli's. A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Paul is now a Los Angeles resident, trying to develop several feature-length scripts into theatrical releases that will knock your socks off. He was nice enough to be our Scary Stud of February, because he hasn't become a Hollywood jerk yet. He spends most of his time attending film festivals, making horror movies, shaking hands with famous horror icons, and being terribly sexy!