#malignant review

[hannahwatcheshorror]

MALIGNANT (2021)

💁‍♀️Strong Female Lead

James Wan seemed a bit self indulgent with this one but otherwise it was very fun and heartwarming by the end. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

Trigger Warning Domestic Violence, Pregnancy Loss, Seizure, Rape Mention

We meet the very pregnant Madison who gets into a verbal fight with her husband and then a physical altercation with him which was not cool. She locks herself in the bedroom with a head wound (yikes) and he sleeps on the couch. (Also, Maddy works in the field of healthcare so I have no idea how she went to sleep with a bleeding head wound but okay movie magic) Not too late into the evening does the husband find himself being haunted by something spooky that kills him and then seems to be coming for Maddy. In all the fuss she loses the baby which is of course devastating. In one night she loses both her husband and her baby (sad!). 

So she comes back to her house after the apparent home invasion because she refuses to let them take her home from her too but doesn’t have the common sense to lock the doors when she showers at night? Because when she realizes that the shadow man is in the street she has to run down the stairs to lock the front door and close the curtains and then when she goes for the back door it is already open. At this point you would think Mads wants to die. I couldn’t believe it! Then she runs upstairs and locks the door after hearing noises and tells herself that it is nothing and that it is all in her head and I literally said out loud “You don’t know that!” because it could just be a regular fella right now coming in off the street to kill her, she is being SO DUMB ALREADY and it hasn’t even been half an hour. I am perplexed by this character and her actions. ANYWAY.

People keep dying and Madison is having visions about them but she is also mysteriously involved with them in her childhood (like how she was adopted). When she has these visions she is paralyzed though (important to note). She tells the police about her wacky visions and that her old imaginary friend, Gabriel, was killing people, even one officer gets attacked by a strange backwards man but no forward progress is made. Actually things come to a head when they find a lady in Maddy's attic as well as the murder weapon… Dun dun dun! But I don’t know why the one detective thinks Mads is the killer, Kekoa literally got his ass beat and nearly killed by a backwards man but he still thinks that Maddy could be the culprit, that’s hilarious. (yeah, absolutely outrageous)

While Mads is in jail, her sister does some digging and God bless that she goes to the abandoned mental facility with no bolt cutters. I mean, it is in the script that she gets in, but let’s be honest with ourselves and know she might encounter some locked fences or doors on her way to her goal. She gets the files and videos they need and everything is even rewound for them. They find out that, plot twist, Gabriel is Madison's conjoined twin! They tried to cut him off of her but he just compressed himself within her and it took the domestic violence earlier to break him out of skull jail (this is why the back of Maddy's head is always bleeding). Back at the jailhouse Gabriel taps in and busts up the pack of bad jail babes and they were terrified to see Gabriel come out of the back of Madison's head (as they should have been, he promptly murdered them all with extreme prejudice). Gabe works his way to a guard, gets the keys, breaks out of jail, but doesn’t hand back the controls to Maddy which is a big problem because Madison hasn’t learned how to wake up when Gabe is controlling her. 

Gabe, now obviously in Madison's backwards body, is just slaying every cop he sees. It is sort of amazing, I am having The Crow flashbacks what with all the dramatic hair and the dramatic cloak and the dramatic action. Either way Gabriel killed all the cops but the main ones we liked (thanks, guy). Then we are in the hospital with Gabe and Mads real mom who gave them up for adoption way back when. Gabriel is ready to end things, he also wants to end Madison's “new” sister who she chose over him and Maddy is trying desperately to wake up and take control of her body. Then her sister drops the biggest bomb, GABRIEL WAS FEEDING OFF MADISON'S FETUS’ TO GAIN STRENGTH FOR HIS RETURN, WHAT AN ASSHOLE. This is enough for Maddy to power through, push out Gabe, take back over and save the day! Gabe goes into mind jail, he says he will break out and Maddy says she doesn’t care, it is the most sibling argument ever. It ends with the two sisters hugging because the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.

[kjudgemental]

Malignant - Horror Movie Review

Director: James Wan Production Compant: Atomic Monster/New Line Cinema/Starlight Media Inc/My Entertainment Inc Country: USA Year: 2021 James Wan, along with his regular co-conspirator Leigh Whannell, has redefined the modern Hollywood paranormal movie. With their names behind the Insidious and Conjuring franchises, their legacy over the past decade will be felt for decades to come.…

[theunholyvirginemilyprentiss]

EMILY PRENTISS’ GOODREADS:

THE HOLY BIBLE

multiple authors

★☆☆☆☆ 0.1

Overly-preachy narrative, too many plot holes. Profiled God as a malignant narcissist with an inferiority complex. Can’t blame Satan for lashing out at has dad like that, rebellion is typical of scapegoated children in a toxic family dynamic.

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

J.D. Salinger

★★★★★ 5.0

Didn’t read it, five stars anyway because its reputation precedes it.

HOW TO FIND AT-RISK KIDS WHO GREW UP IN A 360-DEGREE ENVIRONMENT OF FAMILY VIOLENCE

David Rossi, Jason Gideon

★★☆☆☆ 2.0

Literally ruining my life. But two stars because I was high when I read it and it made my brain feel fuzzy in a good way.

THE LORD OF THE FLIES

William Golding

★★★☆☆ 0.3

Strong concept, disappointing lack of women.

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

Kurt Vonnegut

★★★★★ 5.0

It’s so freaky-deaky, I love it.

Check out my Masterlist for more BAU scenarios

[bxriles]

Hey! Friendly reminder that if you use AI to “make art” or “write” a book and/or fanfiction, I want you to know that I think you’re a bad person! And no! You can’t change my mind(:

By using generative AI to push slop out into the world because you think it’s “too difficult” to learn how to write or create art, you make it clear that you do not value the labor of creatives. The reality is that you’re too fucking lazy to put in the countless hours it takes to become good at your craft. It means you don’t value the work of creatives whose work is being stolen.

Fuck you if you use generative AI. I hope you never know a day of peace in your life 🥰

[princehendir]

Kinda love that "well you see our community is very sensitive and insular, due to how cruelly mocked and slandered we were, the cruel words we endured...... it was very traumatic 🥺" bit that reylos do now but mostly because i only ever see it when they're denouncing a fellow shipper for doing some of most unhinged weird level 5 cyber bullying shit you've ever seen in your life.

[notherbadboydown]

"guess the horror movie by the letterboxd review"

silly little game i made for the magazine my friends and i do for fun

enjoy!

(answers in the tags

[spookiest-little-guy]

006/100

Now, I usually don't like to judge other people's movie opinions. People can like what they like. But I have a feeling that a lot of people who don't like this movie simply don't get it! Like one of the first lines of the movie is someone looking directly at the camera and saying "it's time to cut out the cancer", followed by synth music credits. That was clearly a sign that you weren't supposed to take this movie seriously!

This film was so campy and I loved every minute of it! The hammy acting! The absurd dimensions of the house! A giant hospital/castle on the edge of cliff!! The villian doing back flips and spin kicks! All of this was aided by the fact that the movie had amazingly gorey special effects, a great soundtrack, and a contortionist who played the villian extremely well. 

Overall, this is a movie that I highly recommend! 

[spookytuesdaypod]

spooky tuesday is a (now not so new!) podcast where we’re breaking down all of our favorite slashers, thrillers, monster movies and black comedies on the new scariest day of the week.

malignant (2021) didn’t make the best first impression for us here at spooky tuesday — so we were a lil nervous to revisit it on our latest episode. but with thanksgiving right around the corner, we could think of no better time to cover such a family-focused flick, and boy are we glad we did. now that we’ve done our horror homework by exploring more of director james wan’s oeuvre and cinematic influences, we may have finally built the right foundation to appreciate this bonkers batshit off-the-wall movie for the messy, camp realness it is.

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[twenty-words-or-less]

Malignant (2021)

Summary: Madison (Annabelle Wallis) has what she thinks are visions of people being murdered, but soon realises that they're real.

2hrs of Wan cutting loose after Aquaman. Anyone who says they saw the twist coming is a fucking liar.

Rating: 4.5/5

Photo credit: Cinema Crazed

[toomuchlovereviews]

Malignant (2021)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I have never seen 100% of a cast give 100% of their strength to a film like this. Holy shit. James Wan, you sick fuck, you have gained a new fan. I kiss you on the forehead. (EDIT: I didn’t realise how many of his films I had already watched and enjoyed, so this is a bonus.)

I will say the sound effects were a bit silly at times and made me chuckle. ONLY SOMETIMES! Besides that, so gorgeously scored, especially the spooky, hyperpop version of The Pixie’s Where is My Mind?

Crazy plot twist, gave me a crazy case of whiplash in the best way. If you are so inclined, I also highly recommend seeing how they filmed the twist parts, which I believe they posted to YouTube as a funky little BTS. Absolutely mind blowing!

Also: the sister is the definition of loyal! 💅🏻

You should watch if:

you’ll watch any movie for the ‘it’s coming from inside the house’ trope in horror

Similar titles to this:

Insidious (2010) (solely for the mental affects the entity has on the subject)

Ginger Snaps (2000) (sisterly bonds with a monstrous twist)

[unpassive-viewer]

James Wan and the Art of the Jump Scare

Because I don't enjoy the act of thinking very often, I tend to stay away from films that I really like so that I don't have to articulate why they're good, but today I'm parting from that habit to talk about James Wan and the art of the jump scare. James Wan directed the first two Insidious movies, the first two Conjuring films, and for some reason Aquaman. He is a big-budget horror icon of sorts. So how is it that his movies suck so much less than all of the other films in the horror franchises that he's been a part of?

He's perfected the "cheap" jump scare, that's how.

I make this sound like I'm a hater, but I am so serious. I generally like pop-horror - the straightforward stuff that comes out around Halloween and is somehow always branded as "the scariest movie ever made", but it's really just a lot of stuff that pops out at you or screams at you or is suddenly standing behind someone. I love the Exorcist franchise, I love the Conjuring movies (so much so that I have the first two on DVD despite disc drives being nearly obsolete), and I love Lights Out. Of course I love Robert Eggers, Ari Aster and the other "artsy" directors, but I like something that has good payoff for the scares that I don't have to worry about once it's done.

James Wan is one of my favourite directors in the realm of pop-horror. His ability to establish a good atmosphere in his films is amazing. His ability to be creative with the "expected" jump scares is even better. His unexpected jump scares (Darth Maul in Insidious, the witch in the tree in the first Conjuring) are so much fun. Between his ability to build tension, and in particular his ability to use close up shots of his actors for his desired effect is awesome.

Truly, I have so much love for James Wan's brand of horror. Every instalment in the Conjuring franchise since his departure has been pure garbage. I have yet to watch his newest horror Malignant, so I hope it lives up to my expectations.

[creativedifferencespodcast]

Colin’s back with another Ten Minute Take and this time, it’s a horror movie! Will he ever beat the allegations? And why does he seem to like stuff that comes out so bad it’s good? What do you think of Malignant? Check out Colin’s full Ten Minute Take!

[theabominabledeadair]

Dead Air Ep 203 - Malignant

We’re having visions. Visions that is of Episode 203 of Dead Air! today we tackle a modern film that is sure to become a classic with 2021’s Malignant!Madison is a young woman who’s domestic bliss is nothing short of a nightmare. One night her abusive partner pushes her hard against the wall, cracking her head. Then hours later her husband is found brutally murdered by a shadowy intruder. A short…

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[k-wame]

violently spat out my oatmeal

[apanthropydotorg]

Review 74: Onslaught Kommand - Malignancy

Onslaught KommandMalignancyGodz ov War ProductionsReleased: 10/18/24 –1 – Elite Hunting Gore2 – Pissrot Humiliation3 – Third World Stoning4 – Becoming a Gut Pile5 – Born to be Deformed6 – Satanic Storming7 – Backyard of Corpses8 – Pervert Goat Kommand9 – Morbid Warfare10 – Inside the Mutilator’s Bunker11 – What’s in the Abyss?12 – Carbonized at the Lynching Tree13 – One Trench – Several Dead…