Malignant (2021)
My first film of 2024, watched late on New Years Day. Malignant basically began like so many generic supernatural horror films of the the last ten years except this seemed to be an imaginary friend being the killer rather than a ghostly presence, in a plot twist of eye rolling blandness from director / writer James Wan. I was wondering why exactly it was so highly rated.
And then the true killer was actually revealed in one of those bat shit crazy moments that make you laugh out loud as you didn't see it coming, nor was i expecting a blood strewn cacophony of crazy violence.
As the end credits rolled the phrase 'The mind is a terrible thing to taste' was running through my head.
Compared to so much of contemporary supernatural horror - The Conjuring and so on, Malignant is a f*cking masterpiece.
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