This standard low-rent British paranormal thriller is very much a game of two halves: the first half is a very drab and uninteresting affair offering little of consequence with barely anything that is cinematic or engaging, but the second half veers off into Eli Roth territory and becomes much livelier and far more interesting. There are a couple of well-staged reveal shots, the female leads - Florence Pugh and a cast-against-type Celia Imrie - carry the film with solid work although the male actors offer considerably less, but the star of this show is an impressively-mounted soundscape. Malevolent is a very mixed bag of strengths and weaknesses which will only really appeal to die-hard fans of the sub-genre.
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