Malevolent

2018

Action / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

27
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 16% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 16971 17K

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Plot summary

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.


Uploaded by: FREEMAN
October 05, 2018 at 08:06 PM

Top cast

Florence Pugh as Angela
Shelley Conn as Professor Samantha Harlow
James Cosmo as Grandpa
Celia Imrie as Mrs. Green
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757.79 MB
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English 2.0
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1 hr 29 min
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English 2.0
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1 hr 29 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by youngcollind 4 / 10

Netflix presents: just another ghost movie

I imagine the pitch for this film went something like this:

Director: I want to make a ghost movie!

Executive: Cool! What are you gonna do to make it stand out from every other ghost movie?

Director: Nothing!

Executive: We're in!

What results is a complete paint-by-numbers haunting film. Granted it eventually provides a twist, but it's about as shocking as the reveal at the end of each Scooby Doo episode. If this isn't literally the first horror film you've ever seen, you'll know exactly where it's going at every turn.

That being said, I often find with these straight to Netflix movies that even when they're sub-par, they still have enough backing that they rarely reach student film levels of bad. For all it's predictability, the movie looks good from it's production design to it's effects, and all the performances are on point for the genre. They even roped in a young Florence Pugh right before her career ascended above this level of mediocrity.

Reviewed by msghall 6 / 10

Decent horror flick, hampered by tepid pacing, buoyed by Florence Pugh.

There were moments during this horror flick where I was fully engaged but then found myself struggling to keep interested. The pace is uneven and the dialog stiff and unnatural. A big part of the problem is actor Ben Lloyd-Hughes. Perhaps it's the fault of the filmmakers for making this Brit actor an American caritcature, cartoonish in his immorality, bullying with denim shirt sleeves rolled up like a 50's Kerouac character, but most of the fault likes with the actor himself. Lloyd-Hughes prefers bludgeoning the viewer instead of giving us muted shades. On the other hand, Florence Pugh is a revelation. Whereas Lloyd-Hughes's portrayal lacks subtlety, Pugh is all nuance. Silent through much of the movie, the director lets Pugh's face tell the story. She has a way of barely moving her facial muscles to convey a great deal. At one point early on, a friend asks a newly-haunted Angela if "she's on something." Her reaction perfectly captures that look narcotic drugs can bring to a person; it leaves the viewer with no doubt to her changing state of mind. A wonderful moment. As for the film itself, it avoids many of the genre's repetitious gimmicks, relying on our imagination to fill in the blanks. For that alone, and Pugh's remarkable performance, I enjoyed "Malevolent," despite the lagging moments, weak dialog and Ben Lloyd-Hughes.

Reviewed by Aaron1375 4 / 10

Ugh, these Netflix originals!

I saw the Netflix film, The Ritual, a while back and it was a rather good horror film. I've watched a couple of others, not so much. This one falls into the latter category as once again something promising is wasted due to simply dreadful choices and bad plot twists. Seriously, I was hoping for a creepy ghost story, with perhaps a demon being present, not another in a long line of ghost films where the ghosts are poor lost souls who have been wronged. So the rather good setting of the house that also served as a schoolhouse is completely wasted on this stupid, slow moving film!

The story starts out with a brother and sister who like to con people by making them think that they are helping guide spirits to the other side. Well, many subplots later the two go to a house along with a tech geek and the brother's fiance or something to try and help this old woman who is having trouble with ghostly children. Of course, it is not the children who are the problem, but rather the old woman and her son who like sewing mouths shut while someone moves as slowly as possible to the rescue!

The only good thing this movie did was set the film in the 1980's because it would be very difficult for the brother and sister to con people in this day and age of the internet. Other than that it went in the wrong direction too many times. So many subplots that went nowhere such as the gambling one, the grandfather one, and the sister being in school for some degree. We finally get to the house where the ghost action is rushed in record fashion and we cut right to the culprit being the old woman and her son who somehow isn't in prison or something.

So, no, not going to be able to say this Netflix film was all that good. The settings (the date and the schoolhouse) are the only positives of this one. With a title like Malevolent I was sure this one would have something demonic about it, but it is another in a long line of ghosts trying to get their message across haunting film. The main characters could have easily escaped numerous times but one tends to forget how to drive during these situations and do not get me started on how slowly that sister moved while her brother is getting his mouth sewn shut pointlessly as they kill him afterwards. Why not just kill him? The movie did dispel the horror movie person with an injured ankle is useless thing though...

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