Film Review: Malignant

Genre:  Crime / Horror / Mystery

Cert: 18 CERT

Director: James Wan

Screenwriter: (story by) Ingrid Bisu, James Wan, (screenplay by) Akela Cooper 

Starring: Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young, Michole Briana White, Jean Louisa Kelly, Susanna Thompson, Jake Abel, Jacqueline McKenzie, Christian Clemenson, Amir AboulEla, Mercedes Colon, Ingrid Bisu, Ruben Pla, Jon Lee Brody, Paula Marshall, Zoë Bell, Dan Ramos, Shaunte Lynette Johnson, Natalia Safran, Mike Mendez, Randy Haynie, Cord Walker, Jesus Trujillo, Lisa Catara, Danielle Nottingham, Ray Chase, Mckenna Grace, Patricia Velasquez, Madison Wolfe, Andy Bean, 

Running time: 2h 12min

Parents advised reading before viewing the film as some scenes may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: There is no sex or nudity in the film.

Violence & Gore: The violence is very gory and strong, People get killed in very gory ways including getting their skulls crushed and necks breaking

Profanity: Mild swearing such as shit, bitch, etc and not many f words at all about 15

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: None

Frightening/Intense Scenes: The plot twist of this movie is very scary, disturbing, and shocking, can easily upset sensitive viewers and non

Story: Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities.

Likes: When it comes to directors James wan is one of the best horror directors since the days of john carpenter and clive barker and the other Masters of horror, he has this way of taking risks and running with them.
At first, this film fell into the trope by not establish the character and fleshing them out so we can understand the characters better, but the film does this thing by making the audience think the film is one way, but the twist in the film make a U-turn on the whole story as it because very dark and brutally violent that put ( Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees ) to shame.

The special effects are amazing, especially with the way James wan takes the concept of the psychic connection, but instead of the old way some directors use when you see a connection through someone's eyes, it takes you to a different location. James wan here in this film has created this way that similar to the silent hill film where the room around the character transforms, the character see what is happening psychically in the room, giving this movie a dark edge. 

Madison played amazingly by the talented Annabelle Wallis, with a well-written concept in which she finds herself in a horrifying predicament of thinking she going insane or what she seeing is truly happening, Annabelle performance really gives her character an edge and a very believable person going through hell. 

Some will call this a slasher film, but it is more of a bloodthirst, supernatural style horror with brutal violent action and very dark spin chilling moment movie to watch, especial in the 2nd and 3rd act of the film where this film gets a lot better in a very disturbing way, which horror fans should love. While it was an almost perfect horror there was one moment that was a little dumb, but the film as a whole was an amazing supernatural horror.

Dislikes:  the one scene in which a character sees closes a window and sees water pint on the floor, instead of calling the police he just mop the water up without thinking, it was a little dumb because any normal person would have checked the apartment.

Overall: Dark, creepy, atmospheric supernatural horror, brutal violence, and bloodthirsty

Rating: 5 out of 5 for Entertainment / 9.8 out of 10 fresh inventive horror films.