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Cast & Crew

Annabelle Wallis
Madison Mitchell

Maddie Hasson
Sydney Lake

George Young
Kekoa Shaw

Michole Briana White
Regina Moss

Jean Louisa Kelly
Jane Doe, Serena

Susanna Thompson
Jeanne

Jake Abel
Derek Mitchell

Jacqueline McKenzie
Dr. Florence Weaver

Christian Clemenson
Dr. Victor Fields

Amir Aboulela
Dr. Gregory

Mercedes Colon
Mendez

Ingrid Bisu
CST Winnie

Ruben Pla
Officer Rubin

Jon Lee Brody
Officer Lee

Paula Marshall
Beverly

Zoe Bell
Scorpion

Dan Ramos
Basco

James Wan
Director

Akela Cooper
Screenwriter

James Wan
Producer

Michael Clear
Producer

Eric McLeod
Executive Producer

Judson Scott
Executive Producer

Ingrid Bisu
Executive Producer

Peter Luo
Executive Producer

Cheng Yang
Executive Producer

Mandy Yu
Executive Producer

Han Lei
Executive Producer

Michael Burgess
Cinematographer

Kirk M. Morri
Film Editor

Joseph Bishara
Original Music

Desma Murphy
Production Design

David Scott
Art Director

Jennifer Gentile
Set Decoration

Lisa Norcia
Costume Designer

Anne McCarthy
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Critic Reviews for Malignant

Audience Reviews for Malignant

• Oct 11, 2021

  It is an original take on the horror genre not super scary but maybe too gory! It works because of the star Annabelle Wallis who makes the unbelievable seem believable and true. The support cast shines as well. Wan knows how to direct horror and it is evident here! 10-11-2021
  Christopher O Super Reviewer
• Oct 07, 2021

  On the one hand, I do appreciate that the movie is unabashedly a theme park ride without any agenda other than to be a wild thriller. On the other, it doesn't really succeed at those goals. Everything is too deliberate, even the "crazy" revelations which are underwhelming and obvious.
  

  Alec B Super Reviewer
• Sep 26, 2021

  It might take me a while to ultimately decide how I feel about this movie. The absurd plot, the weirdass twists, the jarring and excessive use of the song "Where is My Mind", it practically dares you to like it. I had to ultimately come to the realization that it's a camp film, not a straight horror film like Wan is known for. It's more in the spirit of 80s B-Movies than anything else. Knowing that, it does what it sets out to do and does it fine. However, while I love 80s B-Movies, it moreso pulls inspiration from the handful I really don't care for. But that's more on me, maybe it'll work for someone else. It's shocking, weird, grotesque, and not what you think it will be. I still haven't decided if I actually liked it or not.
  Michael M Super Reviewer
• Sep 23, 2021

  Thank goodness for James Wan. The horror hit-maker has earned enough creative cache in the industry after fostering three separate horror franchises (totaling near two billion dollars), plus two other high-profile action superhero blockbusters, that he can do whatever he wants and thankfully what Wan wants to do is make really weird movies that take tremendous risks. Malignant is a movie that starts slow, appearing to be another in the line of horror thrillers about a psychic connection between a troubled soul and the imaginary friend that seems to be coming back. The movie begins feeling like high-end camp in a flashback, takes a very serious and uncomfortable turn into domestic violence and miscarriages, and then builds into a psychic serial killer investigation where our main character (Annabelle Wallis) is having creepy visions of the killer exacting bloody revenge. For the first half of the movie, there's a lot to keep up with and it's easy to get confused with bland characters, their often baffling actions and decisions, and then it plops you down for heavy exposition via asylum VHS tapes. However, from that point forward, Wan lays out all his cards and it's so absurd, so entrancingly weird, and so enthusiastic about all of it, that you may burst out laughing in the best possible way. Before its drunken rampage of schlocky delight, Malignant is a horror mystery and stylishly directed with some bravura shots and angles. It's worth your time, but everything is in service to setting up the final act where it gets so much bigger, more bonkers, and deliriously more entertaining. Wan is clearly going for messy giallo horror camp and gives the audience permission to laugh along with the insanity. It acknowledges how goofy looking and bizarre its eventual monster looks, let alone the logistics and circumstances involved, and it all veers into that. Whereas Old felt like M. Night Shyamalan was trying to escape camp and kept falling back into its morass, Malignant feels expressly like the movie James Wan wishes to make. There's even a spooky abandoned child experiment-heavy hospital on a cliff, and rather than have something spooky happen, the character then safely arrives back home with an armload of incriminating medical VHS tapes. The deliberate asides, misdirects, and eventual revelations feel so purposeful to yank around the audience and deliver a frantic and unpredictable ride of a movie that leaves the audience screaming and howling with laughter. I can understand people hating Malignant. I can understand people loving Malignant. I can understand people having trouble even making sense of Malignant. However, you cannot watch this movie and have a passive response. I wish I could have seen this in a packed theater pre-COVID. Nate's Grade: B+
  Nate Z Super Reviewer

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