Malevolence
Malevolence
| 10 September 2004 (USA)
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It's ten years after the kidnapping of Martin Bristol. Taken from a backyard swing at his home at the age of six, he is forced to witness unspeakable crimes of a deranged madman. For years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a mystery...until now.

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Incannerax

What a waste of my time!!!

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Robert Joyner

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

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Taha Avalos

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

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Raymond Sierra

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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flame466

Where should eye begin........? Well first of all if eye could have gave this movie a lower rating than eye would have given it a -2. Second off this movie had no purpose or meaning at all. There's this one scene where a woman and her daughter are tied up and knelled down in front of a kidnapper and also duct tape around their mouths, when from behind the kidnapper and coming down the stairs is the killer. Now at this point the daughter and the mother can both see the killer and are going out of their way to lean and look around the kidnapper while screaming under their duct taped mouths and the kidnapper never turned around which he ended up killed by the killer. Third thing is he didn't even kill the woman and her daughter the next scene just showed them still tied up and no sign of the killer or the body of the kidnapper. Movies like this is why good slasher flicks have become "extincsolete (obsolete/extinct) ". See this movie has forced me to make up a word that doesn't exist. All eye'm saying is if u watch this movie u will be very, very, very upset. That's if u have good taste in horror/slasher flicks.

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trashgang

There are a lot of pro and contras towards this movie. It is a so called low budget or independent movie but it was released on the much acclaimed Anchor Bay. And we all geeks know what that means, quality. How this one have made it onto this label is for me a bit weird. Sure, the movie is over before you knew it but still I thought that there would be more. It all starts, again as some other failures with a scene about a boy and girl being captured by a killer. We see that the boy is watching the girl being stabbed to death. Then we go a few years further when a bank robbery goes wrong. Somehow they have a meeting at an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere. Once there things go wrong. The killer himself appearing made me think of The Shape in Halloween. Shot, stabbed, hit by a baseball bat, he still reappear. The only mistake the movie has is that the red stuff doesn't flow frequently. Oh yes, in some scene's we see the result of killing but there isn't any gore available. Being an ode to the slasher era it is a shame too that no nudity is involved. Anyway, it is a good effort made by this director (Stevan Mena) but still he has to learn a few things. Yes, there is worser but there are also better independents. Wait a minute, it is in fact true that the score is sometimes to loud comparing the voices. But you can find this flick very cheap, so it's worth buying.

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ctomvelu1

Low-budget slasher movie plays like something out of the 1980s, although the modern, crisp camera-work betrays its more recent creation. Would-be bank robbers and their hostages end up on the run and right into the arms of a brutal killer holed up in an old, rural slaughterhouse. The film is played straight and is a bond fide "R" horror flick in an era of way too many PG-13 horror flicks. The gore is there, the scares are there, and no one cracks a joke, thank God. This is serious business. The filmmakers obviously know the classics of the genre, most notably TCM. The acting is acceptable, which is rare for this type of movie.

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Santa Claus

Oh. Dear. Lord. This movie is painful to watch.After a failed bank heist, Mary and Some Guy Whose Name I Don't Think Ever Gets Mentioned (so, of course, he lives through pretty much the whole movie) scream at each other for what feels like hours (but, seeing as the movie's only 85 minutes long, it's probably only a little more than an hour) about how everything got screwed up. Mary and Some Guy even change their arguments and switch sides repeatedly, just so they'll be able to keep screaming at each other. It's like Revolutionary Road but without the capable actors.(And why is it every time there's a Mary in a horror movie, she's a bitch? Jerry always dies and Mary's always a bitch.)Anyway, eventually they have to save Some Lady and her daughter Courtney from a guy who's going around killing people (including the bank heist partner who kidnapped Some Lady and Courtney). The whole masked killer aspect of the movie is an afterthought to Mary and Some Guy's shouting matches. 'Cause people watch horror movies to watch people argue, obviously.First of all, I figured out who the killer was before the movie even really started. Oops. Next time, guys, don't hammer obvious answers in our faces.Second of all, there's a character we see at age six and age seventeen. At six his eyes are such a dark brown they're almost black. At seventeen his eyes are almost bluer than mine. People's eyes don't change colors; have the filmmakers never heard of vanity contact lenses?Third of all, are we supposed to be rooting for Mary and Some Guy? 'Cause I hate them. Mary especially, but Some Guy is no picnic. And their relationship is ill defined. I think they're supposed to be a couple because in the scene that introduces them Mary kisses Some Guy's neck a couple of times. If it weren't for that, though, I would have never made the connection because they don't seem to like each other at all. And it really, really rings false when Some Guy is all sad when he finds out Mary's been killed. You'd think he'd be relieved that she isn't around to insult him anymore. I know I was relieved.My last big complaint about the movie is that it ends and then there's about five minutes of unnecessary exposition. And then there's another ending featuring two jump scares, one of which shouldn't have been.Okay, sorry, no, I have one more big complaint about the movie. All the parts that would have been actually pretty atmospheric and creepy are completely squashed by obnoxious jump chords, just so the audience knows absolutely for sure something creepy is going on. It's as though the filmmakers don't trust their viewers enough to see what's going on, so they put a blast of music in there for good measure. Unfortunately, all that did was destroy any moment that would have been effective.Jump chords aren't scary, people. They're annoying, and they force reactions. I hate jump chords. They're proof that filmmakers think their audience is stupid.

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