Review of Malignant (2021) by Moviemitch96 — 11 Sep 2021

Here's a horror flick from director James Wan that sees a young woman haunted by her past and visions of people dying all around her. She must discover the mysterious reason behind all of these occurrences before it's too late.

I went into this one with moderately low expectations, having only watched the trailer once, and I gotta say that I was not at all prepared for just how cringy and flat-out bad this film would turn out to be, even with my low expectations.

What starts off in the first half as a mysterious psychological horror thriller (and a surprisingly slow one at that) quickly dives headfirst into absolutely absurd supernatural slasher horror schlock, complete with terrible cgi and effects.

On top of that, terrible and hammy acting is provided from practically everybody involved here, with several moments coming off as unintentionally hilarious often times due to the actors and their line delivery.

The final act was really just something else, and not in a good way at all. I can't remember the last time a film jumped the shark in its final act worse than this one, and the ending, like the rest of the film, was just cheesy, predictable, and completely unsatisfying.

Overall, this was not only not scary and full of cheap jump scares, gore, and forced comic relief moments, but it also just reaffirms my belief that this is why the horror genre has been slowly dying over the years.