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I would have loved the crap out of this movie if... spoilers

posted 13 years ago by Necrotard
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As badly acted and slow as this movie was, it would have made me really happy if it was a bit more... malevolent.

When the little girl was dangling out the window, she should have fallen and shattered her ankles. Then the killer should have slaughtered her mom as she lay there screaming. Then the killer should have waltzed downstairs and watched her try to crawl away for a moment, then f\/cking butchered her.

I get it. They were going for the tense Halloween approach and I was supposed to give a damn about the characters. But I felt no tension and wanted all of them to die. Also, I'm sorry, but when I see a movie with a screaming woman on the cover, with a title like "Malevolence", and review quotes that praise the film for being mean-spirited and brutal, I EXPECT SOME HARDCORE NIHILISM! Not a measly TWO on-screen deaths at the hands of the killer!

I'm hearing good things about the prequel, so I'm hoping it has more balls.

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Remember that time I ate your family?

[–] smgiannouli 13 years ago

Thank you!!!!
I read all these reviews before watching the movie, that it is scary and all that... It's not boring because it's slow. It's boring because even when the climactic scenes arrive, they never really deliver. This is not horror.

[–] Muhhh 12 years ago

OMG!!! Yeah and I would just have been laughing like, you dumb jerk I'd say to those characters, and then touch myself!

[–] Random439 12 years ago

"I felt no tension, and wanted them all to die."
Exactly!!
That's exactly how I felt for the majority of the movie.

And here's a tip for directors:
Having characters scream a lot CAN be well done, in the right place and time, in the right movie. But when I'm just watching a late-night slasher flick, having a character scream TOO much just makes me want the killer to finish them off quickly so they'll shut the heck up. Especially if the character is useless to begin with.

[–] Necrotard 11 years ago

Finally sat down with the prequel. MUCH better. The director must have heard other complaints like mine, because he really amped-up the brutality for the prequel. The pacing, acting, and cinematography were all improved too. I hope he caps off his trilogy with one last film like he intended to.

I would have loved the crap out of this movie if... *spoilers*

I would have loved the crap out of this movie if... spoilers