Malevolence (V)
| release date | April 19 2005 |
| studio | Heretic, Anchorbay |
| director | Steven Mena |
| writer | Steven Mena |
| starring | Samantha Dark, Brandon Johnson, Heather Magee, Richard Glover, Keith Chambers, Courtney Bertolone |
| rating | R |
| site | malevolencemovie.com |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
20 Comments
The time I spent watching this movie is time I will never get back, and that sucks. Thank god I only rented this one… Because I’ll tell ya, if I had bought it, I’d be contacting Steven Mena demanding a refund.
This movie is really good. I have read that is sucks all over the place. When i bought this movie as i do they gave me a discount card. I was happy enough to take that. Then when i got home and put in the movie i found myself yelling at the tv watch out!, there he is! I really enjoyed the old style of the killer being right there in the dark corner or closet. So many movies want to just show everything and there is no suspense. This movie while not the greatest acting, but come one you don’t watch horror for acting, it is for the ideas. The idea was fun. The story ok but the movie killer behind the victim in the dark always does it for me. I recommend this movie for anyone who is not totally concerned with great acting but a good story.
Not bad, characters and set up are nice. The killer is a little weak and unconvincing. Maybe that has something to do with the potato sack he wears on his head. But the killings are fun and it’s got me looking forward to the sequel later this year.
This movie was great and fittiingly Malevolent. The setting was brilliant and creepy. Stevan Mena delivers a top notch movie with hardly any budget. It just shows that u dont hav to hav limbs heads and gore allover the place to hav a great horror movie.You look at movies like TCM and Halloween they had creepy atmospheres that were key elements in the movie, but by no means am i placing the movie in their status . Bottom line this is a great movie
Good acting. GREAT atmosphere. Storyline leaves a bit to be desired (needed to flesh out the backstory a bit more), but didn’t detract from the movie much. If you like older slasher flicks, this will bring back memories! It’s like a homage to those great slasher flicks of yesteryear.
after reading all the great things said about this picture, i just had to check it out myself. this movie is so under-rated. not your average slasher flick, this one takes some twists & turns not typically seen in horror movie plots. somebody put a lot of thought into this movie & it showed. the cinematography is excellent, the camera angles were effective, too. yeah, there’s a couple of cheap thrill scares, but nothing that takes away from the movie. give it a try.
The atmosphere is fantastic and writer/director Steve Mena should be given some praise for trying to change the typical slasher story a bit, but those are the only truly decent things about this film.
First complaint: The violence. Now I don’t necessarily need buckets of blood and gore to enjoy a slasher (even though it helps), but the violence in this film was incredibly tame. I seriously thought this movie could have easily passed for a PG-13 rating. Hell, the original Halloween is more violent than this!
Second complaint: The twist. I pretty much figured out the supposed “twist” within the first 30 seconds. It was so clearly obvious I actually didn’t consider it a twist until I hit the interwebs and saw people claiming it was.
Someone said in an earlier review on here that this film is basically a homage to the very first slasher flicks, which it pretty much is. The problem with that is homages rarely live up to the originals and this film is no exception.
Low body count, very little blood, slow-burning with no real payoff, average to crap acting (which doesn’t bother me so much, but for some it might) and a twist people should see coming a mile away.
Worth at least one watch since some people will enjoy this movie, but definitely NOT worthy of the amount of praise it’s received.
ok malevolence isnt awsome or anything its kind of a splice between halloween and friday the 13th.I enjoyed it on a whole mostly the older slasher feel its not ground breaking but i liked it just fine.
To be honest I hadnt heard about this movie until reviews this site. But it sounded right up my lane. So I found it and watched it. I will say it is an odd one. Not a horrible movie just odd. I liked it although it could have been so much better. The whole premiese of basiclly not only kidnapping a young boy but deminting his soul is kinda different. Your often told that you choose your own destiny no matter what life you led. However this story begs to differ. It ok, not great but goos enough to keep on to the end. Had some parts I jumped in!It doesnt really have much of a so called twist to it, its pretty much a givin from the start. I hate alot of plain creepy music in a movie, however in this movie it was the best part. It really wasnt cheesy and kinda Goth.
This flick really surprised me.I give it high marks for acting and suspense.Although the body count was low as compared to 80′s slasher flicks, I was highly entertained.Give this movie a try, you will not regret it!
Not to happy about this movie. The story had some good ideas but didn’t come off right. the killer reminded me of early Jason(before the hockey mask) just not as evil and vicious. Not at all what I thought it would be from the reviews I read.
Didn’t get into this one at all. Besides a short and somewhat promising intro, the movie spends too much time on a robbery plot that goes kinda nowhere, bad acting, and characters you could care less about. There isn’t much of any buildup for the “killer”, and so it seems a bit boring and generic. No replay value here.
This movie surprised me in so many ways. I thought for sure it was going to be another cheesy b movie-but this movie is actually a throwback to 70′s and even a bit of 80′s horror movie. This movie has all the ingredients of a classic horror movie-it looks like it was shot for the 80′s but had that raw 70′s quality to it. It was obviously done on a low budget. It starts off as weak and a bit boring but it soon escalates to where it should be-the scares are genuine as well as the directors intent on making this a stand out film. It’s scary and gory in its subtleness-which these days we can appreciate. All in all a good movie-one definitely worth owning and was surprised that it slipped under the radar. There is a sequel and I cannot wait to check it out-trust me on this-you won’t be disappointed.
Disappointing movie that held extreme promise. Bottom line – yet another low budget flick that spends too much time on build up and not enough time delivering the goods. Not a waste of time, just not a very good movie.
Very boring! not scary one bit. I’ve seen episodes of Supernatural that are more scary than this dungpile of a movie. God I can’t believed I watched the whole thing. DO NOT let the BD rating trick you into buying or renting this. worst horror I’ve watched in 5-10 years.
I actually went to the movies to see this, it wasn’t planned but my girlfriend wanted to watch a “scary” movie and this was the only fuckin one that was playing. Wow, I wanted my money back, they tried to copy Halloween and other films and to me it was laughable. I’ve seen worse films but it sure as shit doesn’t deserve 4 skulls.
“Malevolence” totally took me by surprise: I expected some kinda torture-porn gorefest but it actually is a pretty suspenseful and thrilling homage to classic oldschool slashers.
The acting is so-so and the first half is often a bit too slow – but apart from that, I had a great time watching it.
It has a well-written script and a quite nice “Satan’s Blade”-like plot. Camera work and photography are absolutely excellent with many highly atmospheric shots of all the beautiful-looking abandoned houses.
The soundtrack is incredibly creepy but also quite fun, mainly because of many “Halloween” and “Psycho” references. It’s packed with loads of breathtakingly tense edge-of-seat-scenes and scary shots, the kills are all very neat and the masked killer (an obvious tribute to the one from “The Town That Dreaded Sundown”) looks just stunning, especially because many of his movements remind me of the great Michael Myers.
A fabulous little indie-horror-flick, sadly way too underrated.
Okay slasher film, that takes many concepts from other slasher films. The music/sound got annoying to me, but I wasn’t expecting a 70s/80s horror film. Overall, it was good and I would like to see the next film (Bereavement).
pretty decent flick. a little slow but i liked the different take on the slasher film that Mena uses IE not using the same old cliche characters most slasher films have. It definetly had room for improvement in some areas and hopefully Bereavement will be even better.
One of the top 3 slasher films Ive ever seen. The whole thing just clicked for me – tense, and non traditional while still following familiar slasher classic paths. Loved the Halloween and Ft13 soundtrack references, the brutality without showing actual graphic violence – something about it all just blended well. On top of the fact that this was primarily a one person shoestring budget debut – forgetaboutit. Malevolence is a slasher fan must see, and sets the new bar for quality low budget stalker films.