Review of Malignant (2021) by Numeroryan — 10 Sep 2021

Oh boy… where to start with this one. Walking out the cinema no less than four couples questioned wether or not what they had just seen was a terrible dream, or that we were on some form of reality show, with cameramen secretly recording our reactions.

The two people in the toilet cubicles discussing what was worse, the acting, story or premise, or the girls mentioning that they should have watched a trailer first - this was a strange experience just walking out of a film to murmurings of what we all had just witnessed (one that I could only presume had the same profound affect as cult classic ‘The Room’).

The movies premise is actually a really interesting one, something very unique and unlike any horrors recently so for this I have given the film at least a 1, that’s about as good as I can give this film.

Some of the character choices (not in a dumb movie type trope) just seem to be poorly written, a great example of this is the main character suffers a tragedy in Act 1, her mother does not even turn up in the film until around half way through not even questioning anything she has gone through (odd choice, bad mother).

To some domestic abuse being shoehorned in which in reality sets up the movie but this could have been done in so many other less jarring ways. The acting is absolutely atrocious with some poor attempts at some jokes thrown in, basically the structure around this absolutely mental film essentially does not support its unique interesting premise, leaving it looking like a C rated horror movie where if it was available to stream for free I would want my money back.