Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Back in 2003, director Steven Mena made an ultra low budget slasher effort called Malevolence, chronicling the brutal crimes of a kidnapped child named Martin Bristol, who grew up watching his abductor commit heinous murders in front of him, and as such became a monster himself. The torch of evil was passed, but we never got to see those early years and the inciting incident which led to such madness. Cue a prequel, entitled 'Malevolence: Bereavment', a detailed, suffocating and very, very disturbing account of Martin's childhood initiation into the life of a serial killer, under the wing and at the hands of a madman named Graham Sutter (Brett Rickaby, a walking nightmare). He snatches 6 year old Martin (Spencer List) from a backyard swing, with designs on naming him as both protégé and acting as mentor, kidnapping locals in the area and subjecting them to unspeakable acts of violence and psychological experimentation, all in the name of some illusory philosophy that only makes sense in his diseased psyche. Meanwhile, a young girl (early work from Alexandra Daddario) moves into town to stay with her estranged uncle (Michael Biehn) and his family. While she tries to wade through a romantic coming of age story involving a local boy, events surrounding the killer's actions get perilously close to everyone, and erupt into one of the most stressful, harrowing chain of events I've ever seen in a horror film. Biehn is Hollywood's resident badass, but the genius in casting him here is that not even he is a match for Sutter's tedious reign of terror, and it's in such contrast that the film strikes despair right down to the bones. Sutter is barely human, with ninety percent of his dialogue spent on indecipherable rambling, making us feel all the more alienated by the fact that the only other human being around to soak up this toxic output is poor young Martin, on a clear path to mental destruction. These scenes are as lonesome and depressing as the acrid rural vista in which this all unfolds, and while we're thankful for atmosphere and setting, we can't wait to get out and breathe fresh air by barely the halfway mark, lest we choke on such overpowering despair. Keep an eye out for genre legend John Savage in a crotchety cameo, providing the film's single iota of comic relief. As much of a vicious little sleeper as the first film is, nothing quite compares to the sheer bleakness and soul dampening evil they achieved this time around. Don't go onto this one in a bad mood, it'll mess you up.

Saw this on the horror channel and there's Lots of blood and gore with many graphic kills but movie is boring only good thing about it is Michael Biehn. ***********************contains spoilers*************************Basically a serial killer who is a carbon copy off buffalo bill is kidnapping and butchering teenage girls and makes some young boy who he kidnapped earlier watch all his crimes and help him so he's basically grooming him into his replacement therefore the ending is a foregone conclusion. I would say its only worth watching if nothing else is on and you really are bored otherwise there is far better in the slasher genre out there. 4/10

I only watched this movie because Michael Biehn was in it. It did not take long to figure out this movie pretty much sucks! Oh, and then I recognized actor John Savage. These two guys are good actors! But the chick playing Biehn's niece is so annoying and such a bad actress, that's the real horror here. The plot is pretty much non-existent: a serial killer slaying a bunch of women in front of the kid he's kidnapped. (and now I get it that this is a prequel. That knowledge didn't help the quality of this film). Oh, and parts of the story made no sense. The victims' and their excessive screaming, but lack of fighting. The teenager telling her cousin to stay put in the upstairs bedroom as a fire burns downstairs. Geez! It was just ridiculous. But, of course, I had to watch the sequel. I'm watching it now and it's just as bad.

The worst movie I've ever seen my god... I don't even know what to say. is awful. If you stumble with this any time please save your two hour of life and see anything else this is a shi* movie... The biggest disappointment for me was see Michael Biehn in this terrible movie. Everybody dies here the main and the minor characters, really I repeat DO NOT see this movie. I don't have anything else to say. Everything is bad with this movie, for me this haven't any screenplay is just guts and blood and you say OK and what is that for? and finally you find the movie is a nonsense since it begins still ends. Nobody can believe the things that happen in here...