Malicious (2018)

Directed by: Michael Winnick | 87 minutes | horror, thriller | Actors: Bojana Novakovic, Josh Stewart, Delroy Lindo, Melissa Bolona, ​​Yvette Yates, Jaqueline Fleming, Bailee MyKell Cowperthwaite, Luke Edwards, Joy Kate Lawson, Presley Richardson, Jo-Ann Robinson, Ben VanderMey

Some movies are not so much bad, but just mediocre. Afterwards, you are not offended by an attack on your intelligence, and at the same time you are not emotionally moved. Malicious is a movie that you’ve already forgotten about. It’s a copy of a copy. You’ve seen this movie a dozen times before, but with different actors. Better and bad. The special effects and setting also look familiar. It is a bread film: a production that provides salaries, provides employment and keeps the local caterer going. Very nice for the person involved, but the viewer will not get warm. Maybe diehard movie viewers and people who have never seen a horror movie will be happy with this demonic haunted house movie, but the majority of the experienced gorehounds will shrug this production.

Malicious is about college professor Adam (Josh Stewart) and his pregnant wife Lisa (Bojana Novakovic). This soggy couple moves into a spacious mansion and hopes to start a family there. When Lisa’s sister presents them with a strange chest, the trouble begins and Lisa begins to hallucinate. Or not? Is there really something going on in the house? Adam enlists the help of a blind parapsychologist, Dr. Clark (Delroy Lindo) and discovers the terrible truth…

Of course there is something going on in the house and Lisa turns out not to be crazy. ‘Malicious’ is a film by the book and crosses all genre clichés. The maddening wife, the concerned husband, the mysterious professor and the too cheap mansion: check, check and double check! You know exactly what you get. The acting makes up for a bit. the always decent Stewart is quite nice and Lindo’s presence is also nice. Unfortunately it ends there. Don’t go to this film for excitement, surprise or inspiration. So mediocrity trumps.