Grindstone Road Movie
Storyline
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There goes the neighborhood
A young mother becomes stricken by guilt after an accident leaves her son in a coma. Moving to a house in the countryside, she tries to resume a normal life with her husband, but soon beginsobserving supernatural events taking place all around her.
| Fairuza Balk | Hannah |
| Greg Bryk | Graham |
| Joan Gregson | Linda |
| Walter Learning | Ted |
| Dylan Authors | Daniel Jenkins |
| Matt Gordon | Martin |
| Zachary Bennett | John Dodson |
| Felix Pennell | Danny Sloan |
| Kyla McMahon | Young Hannah |
| Sean Jordan | Parking Lot Attendant |
| Andrea Davis | Overworked Nurse |
| Melanie Orr |
5.30 out of 10 (10 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Not good or bad...it just is
posted on 25 Aug 2008Grindstone Road is one of those forgettable but not altogether bad ghost story flicks that are about a dime a dozen. I say "ghost story" instead of "horror" because I don't think there's anything anyone would find even remotely scary going on here, but it still manages to worm it's way into what most people would consider a horror flick. Hey...if you can pass off The Messengers as a horror flick then the sky's wide open.The movie starts with our protagonist Hannah (Balk) having a flashback to a car accident that left her son in a coma. Now you might be tempted to think the accident is why Balk looks so awkward throughout the rest of the film, but then you remember that she's always looked that way. I swear, it looks like someone slammed a tennis ball into her mouth and she just left it there. It's really borderline distracting. Ugh. Oh...and a side note...when going to visit your vegetable son in the hospital it's probably bad form to wear high-heeled hooker boots. Kinda makes it look like you're not really that interested. Just a thought. Anyway...moving on.After becoming painfully aware of the movie's subplot (the accident and ensuing drama) via way too many flashback sequences, we see Balk and her husband move out to the country to start over...which seems weird because their kid isn't really dead, he's just comatose. Way to be great parents. Long story short the new house plays tricks on Hannah's mind (but only her...how predictable) and her husband starts to think she's nuts until all is made clear in an ending so anti-climactic and out of left field you'll wonder what the hell the last hour and twenty minutes were about. I mean, it all ties together and you saw it coming, but it still seems pretty lame and off topic.The cast isn't bad and the director does a good job of making the house as creepy as possible, but the movie just never really gets to where it wants to go. Or maybe it does and I just didn't care. Either way I'd say this is a fair bet if you've got nothing better to do/watch. Might not be a bad way to waste a Sunday afternoon. Then again, that can be said for a whole lot of movies that aren't very good.
Incredibly inept
posted on 27 Mar 2009Bad writing, bad direction, bad editing, bad acting. It has it all. Frankly, I enjoy a good low budget feature, but I can't tolerate a strung-together series of the most clichéd scenes imaginable. Wandering into a dark basement alone at night? Make-you-jump loud sounds, in lieu of true scares? A husband who doesn't believe his stressed-out wife? The ol' disappearing "evil water" routine? And that in just the first thirty minutes.And, what's with the fade-to-black between scenes? It's amateurish and distracting.The set-dressing is horrible. It calls attention to itself in almost every location.Frankly, I couldn't finish the film. A "script supervisor" position is obviously not the best experience for direction, just as a "sound editor" most likely has no business jumping into writing screenplays.There's a reason this waste of time went directly to video, although I assume that was the intention from the beginning.