Not again...

To a great many dissatisfied horror movie viewers, MALEVOLENCE indeed did fall on its face. And, despite what you might believe, we did hear him when he said he set out to create an homage to 70s slashers. The problem a lot of us had with the end result was that it wasn't so much an homage as it was just a boring, bad movie.

And, truthfully, Mena didn't need to fill MALEVOLENCE with nudity or any kind of gore to 'appease' me. I'd have been satisfied with a well-written story.

I'm with senchokid on this one, I'm still ticked off that I spent the money to see Malevolence at the theater. Went with another old horror loving friend, at his suggestion, and we spent most of the movie laughing at dialogue and acting that wasn't supposed to be funny. And yes, I realize it was made for very little money, but how little? According to imdb it cost over $400k, but you could have fooled me, it looked more like $40k. Which is really unimportant, the plot didn't call for much. What it was lacking was any sort of suspense, originality, decent acting and writing.... seriously, I thought it was boring, bland, and unoriginal. And for what it's worth, I like The Changeling and The Howling quite a bit. Both of them are better in every way than Malevolence, imo. I just though it was another dime-a-dozen cheap no-talent horror flick, that should have gone straight to video, there are tons of these things clogging the shelves at my neighborhood rental joint..... how it got a theatrical release, I don't understand. However, it was his first movie, so I'm totally open to the idea that he might do better this time around, and hope so.

To be honest, the only "shoestring" budget horror movie I've seen in a while that really excelled beyond it's means, was "Shallow Ground" from a couple of years ago. Supposedly made for under $100k, it looked as good as some multi-million dollar movies I've seen, had decent acting, a real score recorded by a real symphony (not that I don't love electronic creepiness, quite the opposite), a pretty good plot that wasn't the same as a bunch of other movies, atmosphere, nice gore, great directing, and it played it totally serious. I really don't know how it's possible it was made for so little.....

just my 1/2 cent anyway...

Cant we all just....Get along??

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I disliked this film, too. It was boring, terribly written, and even more terribly performed. The direction is also sub par.

Oh, jeebus... not Madman-Marz. I had hoped I had heard the last of you when The Horror Channel boards died. Sorry to see your taste in movies never improved.

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