Florence Pugh

Ben Lloyd-Hughes

Celia Imrie

Scott Chambers

Georgina Bevan

James Cosmo

Shelley Conn

Niall Greig Fulton

Nicola Grier

Ian Lorimer Milne

Emma Atkin

Flora Brady

Anna Coote

Stephen McCole

Charlotte Allen

Daisy Mathewson

Daniel Campbell

Charles Barrett

Olaf de Fleur Johannesson

Al Hardiman

Eva Konstantopoulos

Graham Begg

Claire Moorsom

Ben Ketai

Marcus Chait

Brian Coffey

Ross McKenzie

Jason White

Charlotte Walls

Peter Brill

Tony Cook

Victoria Dabbs

Kahl Henderson

Christine Close

Matt Chessell

Caroline Stewart

Craig Jackson

Kahleen Crawford

David Arthur

David Goodall

Zach Clark

Maria Mulhall

Danny Sherman

Mark Inglis

Wayne Bennett

Nancy McKenna

Jonathan Farmer

Nick Baldock

Bjarni Felix Bjarnason

Horror

Malevolent

Catalyst Global Media

Sigma Films

Thruline Entertainment

United Kingdom

Kewl Kat

Florence Pugh is a great actress buy you'd be better off watching her in Lady Macbeth. This one was rather boring and unoriginal. I didn't find it particularly scary and instead of it being a creep ghost movie, it sorta turns into an annoying torture-fest by the end. Poorly developed characters and a lack of scares, along with lackluster atmosphere means I'll give it 5/10 stars. It would be lower but I gave it a bonus star just cuz I like Miss Pugh.

Gimly

Malevolent did not capture my attention at all. Boring and old hat as they come, _Malevolent_ might have been worth my money, (because I watched it on a Netflix account that I don't pay for, so that money was zero) but it was not worth my time, or yours.

_Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible._

Kamurai

Bad watch, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend.

The movie description didn't do this justice: it makes it sound like a "Scooby Doo" episode that turns real, when it should have been closer to "Don't Breathe".

And that's where most of my contention comes in: the misdirection plot of needing money was completely unnecessary and a waste of time.  Florence Pugh worked her ass off to carry the movie, and Celia Imrie does creepy old lady well enough, but I think the character was written badly and she just couldn't do anything with it.

The story itself, the actual events that are happening are fantastic, and I was shocked to see this as a 2020 movie.  With proper production value, and a decent cast, this should have easily been a movie that people talked about.

While it's not quite "Girl Next Door" levels of traumatic, it's enough to easily make you feel bad for the ghosts, but I didn't give a crap about any of the protagonists: I just couldn't see why I should.  A lot of the time I was mad they were even still doing ghost stuff because of all the friction in the first act.

English

Malevolent | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix