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Malevolent

A brother-sister team who fake paranormal encounters for cash get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted estate turns very, very real.

Top Cast

  • Florence Pugh

    Florence Pugh

    Angela Sayers

  • Ben Lloyd-Hughes

    Ben Lloyd-Hughes

    Jackson Sayers

  • Celia Imrie

    Celia Imrie

    Mrs. Green

  • Scott Chambers

    Scott Chambers

    Elliot

  • Georgina Bevan

    Georgina Bevan

    Beth

  • James Cosmo

    James Cosmo

    Grandpa

  • Shelley Conn

    Shelley Conn

    Professor Samantha Harlow

  • Niall Greig Fulton

    Niall Greig Fulton

    Herman Green

  • Nicola Grier

    Nicola Grier

    Christine Sayers

Overview

A brother-sister team who fake paranormal encounters for cash get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted estate turns very, very real.

Rating

5.0 / 10
553 Reviews
1 Popular

3 Reviews

  • Kewl Kat
    Kewl Kat
    5 Oct 7, 2018

    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
    Gimly
    3 Oct 26, 2018

    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
    Kamurai
    4 Oct 23, 2020

    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.

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