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Opinions on Malignant? 👀

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I took me forever to get around to this one, but holy fucking shit!! The camera work, the atmosphere, the acting (Anabelle Wallis picked me up, dropped me into a pringles can and shook me around! Her performance was stunning!!), the TWIST!! HOLY MACKREL!

No spoilers (aside from the villain's name if you count that) but I'm gonna put my longer thoughts under a cut to cut down on your scrolling. We're respectful in this house.

Physicality is something I really love about acting, especially in horror movies. I love when people and creatures move and you just go 'EW!! HOLY FUCK WHY ARE THEY DOING THAT!' And it was utilized to the fullest extent here with our villain Gabriel (which is where I love to see it the most, honestly) Everything from the way he crawled about like a scary little demon to the way his shoulders moved when he breathed had me HANGING off of my seat. The way he moved was certainly not something I'd ever seen before. When you stop and thing about it the concept it a little silly, but it never looks or feels as silly as it should thanks to some top tier choreography and camera work! Wowza!

The twist was partially spoiled for me on here before I got to see it, which sucked, but as it turned out, I really didn't know the half of it and I still startled yelling when the full reveal came out. And I think even if I did have the whole thing spoiled it still would have been scary and fun. That being said, watch this shit as blind as you can, and if you can't do that and know the twist, find someone who doesn't and watch it with them just to see their expression. I'm sure it'll be worth it.

I also think they did a really good job of balancing the really tragic elements of this story with the scary ones. It didn't go fully down the Hereditary/Midsommar grief and bad choices are all consuming and inescapable route, and doesn't just ignore that trauma has an impact on people. Sometimes I find characters in movies will throw all their emotions out at the audience in a single scene to show they are feeling a certain way, or that something that happened to them impacted them, then we don't ever see it impacting them again. It's like we're just supposed to remember that they feel that way even when they take actions that would suggest otherwise. But I didn't think this was true in this film. Maddie's emotional state seemed to build upon itself like real a real person's. It was really nice to see.

I know a lot of people were not impressed with this one, but James Wan had me utterly enthralled the whole way through not gonna lie! It wasn't at all what I thought it was going to be because I (sort of on purpose) only saw one promo for it--I thought it was going to be more of a girl falls victim to the matrix-esque hellscape of her dreams type situation, which it really, really isn't. That would have been really cool, but I cannot say I was disappointed to be wrong.

But I think my favourite thing about this film is the fact that it doesn't take itself super seriously. The concept is balls to the wall crazy and though the tone of the movie is over-all serious, you can tell the people had a ton of fun making it and that they all really believed in the project. It just has a ton of heart <3

This movie is a fucking trip and it is definitely an instant favourite!