Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
3/4
“Look at what the cancer has become!”
Matthew Brady - wrote on 09/22/2021
‘Malignant’, a movie that after some time reflecting on it, I’m still not sure what to think of it. The movie is so messy and becomes all sorts of things, but in some weird way it’s still incredibly well made. This reminds me of when another horror director named Sam Raimi, who after directing three superhero movies like ‘Spider-Man’ then went on to make something like ‘Drag Me to Hell’, a campy horror comedy that nobody was ready for. While ‘Malignant’ is nowhere near as good as ‘Drag Me to Hell’, but I’m glad campy horror movies are not dead yet and I find it amusing how modern audiences, who are more exposed to jump scared horror flicks, are reacting to this.
This movie is so freaking bonkers in every sense of the word. It’s so out there that I found …
Rating of
2/4
Giallo-Inspired Horror with a Twist (I Saw Coming)
Chris Kavan - wrote on 09/20/2021
Malignant reminds me of another horror film that a lot of people like a lot better than I did, but was ruined because I figured out the twist too early and it kind of made the rest of the film fall flat. That would be The Others from 2001 - and like that film, I figured out what was happening in Malignant and by the time the big twist reveal happened in the third act, I already knew where it was going and so it just didn't do much for me.
James Wan is an amazing horror director - with Saw, The Conjuring and Insidious all under his belt. With Malignant he has stated that the film was inspired by the Giallo Italian horror style - and I can see the inspiration on screen. The direction is not necessarily the issue here - it's probably the why I didn't score the film lower - but I just …
