Malevolent
Horror
Overview:
A brother-sister team who fake paranormal encounters for cash get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted estate turns very, very real.
Director:
Olaf de Fleur Johannesson
Status:
Released
Language:
English
Buget:
$0.00
Revenue:
Key words:
Cast
Florence Pugh
~ as ~
Angela Sayers
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
Jackson Sayers
Celia Imrie
Mrs. Green
Scott Chambers
Elliot
Georgina Bevan
Beth
James Cosmo
Grandpa
Shelley Conn
Professor Samantha Harlow
Niall Greig Fulton
Herman Green
Nicola Grier
Christine Sayers
Ian Lorimer Milne
Craig
Kewl Kat
Written 6 year(s) ago
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Florence Pugh is a great actress buy you'd be better off watching her in Lady Macbeth. This one was rather boring and unoriginal. I didn't find it particularly scary and instead of it being a creep ghost movie, it sorta turns into an annoying torture-fest by the end. Poorly developed characters and a lack of scares, along with lackluster atmosphere means I'll give it 5/10 stars. It would be lower but I gave it a bonus star just cuz I like Miss Pugh.
Malevolent did not capture my attention at all. Boring and old hat as they come, Malevolent might have been worth my money, (because I watched it on a Netflix account that I don't pay for, so that money was zero) but it was not worth my time, or yours.
Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible.
Bad watch, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend.
The movie description didn't do this justice: it makes it sound like a "Scooby Doo" episode that turns real, when it should have been closer to "Don't Breathe".
And that's where most of my contention comes in: the misdirection plot of needing money was completely unnecessary and a waste of time. Florence Pugh worked her ass off to carry the movie, and Celia Imrie does creepy old lady well enough, but I think the character was written badly and she just couldn't do anything with it.
The story itself, the actual events that are happening are fantastic, and I was shocked to see this as a 2020 movie. With proper production value, and a decent cast, this should have easily been a movie that people talked about.
While it's not quite "Girl Next Door" levels of traumatic, it's enough to easily make you feel bad for the ghosts, but I didn't give a crap about any of the protagonists: I just couldn't see why I should. A lot of the time I was mad they were even still doing ghost stuff because of all the friction in the first act.
