Movie Monday BLOGOWEEN EDITION: Malignant Review

Malignant was overall an enjoyable- but slightly cheesy horror movie. It had some weird character design choices, a very slow start and some questionable choices but overall... really entertaining movie- kind of a fun villain and it was an entertaining movie. I wouldn't say go out of your way to watch it... but if you have HBO Maxx- I think this is better than The Many Saints of Newark.

I'm going to start with my one major problem of the movie... the HAIRSTYLES. So... pretty much every female character in the movie has bangs... and it is JARRING. It's the most distracting thing about the whole movie. I believe the director said its because bangs are hereditary so its to show that characters are biologically related but... EVERY SINGLE character in the movie has bangs so- that 100% negates that. Also it's not like a super trendy bang cut- it's just... not the best looking bangs on all of these characters if I'm honest. It was just very odd.

So despite that... the locations of the movie are actually all very cool and spooky looking, and there are a lot of long takes of the camera following the characters running away from the monster... and that was really- really cool. Overall the movie had a nice look to it and I like that in horror movies. It really looked like a haunted house.

I'm also someone that kind of sees twists coming in movies a lot of the time... and a lot of the twists were kind of predictable- but I still didn't totally see them coming... so I guess that was pretty good. I overall enjoyed the movie. Like I said the Monster was interesting- although the design made me crack up at first... and it's a little cheesy looking. Not exactly scary but... it was kind of fun and I think they did an okay job.

So besides the BANGS and BANGS and BANGS of this movie... it was pretty okay. I'd watch another one in the series- maybe not in theaters- but I thought it was worth it.

And that's it!

Bye!

-Shannon