Malignant Review

Review of Malignant (2021) by screenqueeen: 👍 3/5

Would be a more wild time for me had it not been kind of beat for beat another movie which I won't name for spoilers' sake. It doesn't divert enough from that film's core drive to really feel original (even though Wan wanted to make this a pastiche of crazy 70's/80's horror you'd find in the video store). It only really starts getting there in the final act which is the most impressive by far. The technical prowess punches through the retread of points introduced by that film that will not be named, and is almost mind-blowing in spots.

Plus being a Seattleite I have to say the city representation looks decent but the fact that you see CGI rain in establishing exterior shots help to prove that it doesn't rain like that at all or as frequently as people think it does here.