Malevolent (2018)
Release: October 5, 2018
Director: Olaf de Fleur Johannesson
Writers: Ben Ketai and Eva Konstantopoulos
Cast: Florence Pugh,Celia Imrie,Mrs. Green,Ben Lloyd-Hughes,Scott Chambers,Georgina Bevan,Daniel Campbell
Malevolent Synopsis:
Siblings Jackson and Angela run a profitable ghostbusting racket; swindling the bereaved with fake detection equipment and Angela’s paranormal ‘visions’. Hired to investigate a haunted old foster home, the team uncover its terrifying past: young girls brutally slaughtered, mouths stitched shut; silenced by a sadistic killer. And Angela’s on the edge – sleepless, strung out and losing her mind, no longer certain what’s actually real; convinced she hears the girls crying out to her from the darkness… But supernatural terrors are the least of their problems when they discover the very real evil lurking in the isolated house.
Review:
Watch my detailed video review of Malevolent !
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This movie was average. It wasn’t the worst movie I have seen, but it certainly wasn’t the best. First of all, It looked like a very low budget student film for a Netflix movie from the beginning, and that itself lowered my expectations of the movie. Secondly, the movie itself isn’t really that scary. It’s kind of slow for the most part, and has those occasional jump scares that we have already seen in The Conjuring series. Thirdly, and I’m not going to details on this one because it is a spoiler free review, but there are a few plots in the movie that really don’t make any sense once the reveal is shown as to who is behind the murders.
Moreover, I feel like Malevolent is one of those movies that would have been excellent in the form on a book where the author would have described the settings and the characters in a darker manner, but I think that it lost that charm when adapting it into a movie. Overall, this more was nice but it was nothing memorable, so I would give it a rating of 2 – 2.5 stars.
