Malignant

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Thoughts

To sum up my feelings about Malignant I will explain my thought process for watching it. It was thus:

"Man, I wanna watch something spooky, but not like, too heavy, because that'd be depressing."

And then I booted up Malignant.

Malignant is such an unserious movie, and that's the best part about it. James Wan apparently got to make it in exchange for making whatever Fast & Furious came out that year, and it shows. He loved making this headass movie. There is no substance to it. Hell, you could barely call it horror. But it's such a highly entertaining ride that I don't care. The climax to this movie was worth every minute of the usual Blumhouse Horror build-up. In fact, I love watching this movie with people who haven't seen it before in particularly just to see their looks of gasps and confusion when that scene happens.

Beyond that, it actually does some pretty fun stuff with genre conventions. A great example of this is how after an hour of jump scares, a character heads into a very, very spooky setting. You keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. And it never comes! James Wan straight up playing with our minds. I could watch this movie 100 times tbh.