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 reviewer's that review this movie has anything lower than the seven are beautiful. You are absolutely terrible reviewing you should be ashamed of yourselves and resign

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.

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????????????