Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Stevieboy666 A bank robbery goes wrong & the offenders plus a couple of hostages find themselves at a country hideaway, only to be stalked by a maniac who looks like the killer from "The Town that Dreaded Sundown", or Jason Vorhees from Friday the 13th pre hockey mask. Apart from an horrific opening the first half hour plays like a crime thriller but after that, once the killer starts going about his grisly business the film then turns gradually into an effective slasher. The relatively low body count may not go down with more hardcore slasher fans but this film does pack in a fair amount of suspense. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th & Halloween are obvious influences, but that's no bad thing. No complaints about the acting either. Well worth seeing alongside it's superior prequel "Bereavement" (2010).

Fella_shibby Its a low-budget indie horror flick, old formula decently shot. Similar to Dead Birds (2004), which also started with a bank robbery n the robbers taking refuge at an abandon house where they get picked off by evil. Unlike Dead Birds, there's nothing supernatural in the movie. Some may call it similar to Dusk till Dawn but that was comical n big budget with big names. The cinematography by Tsuyoshi Kimoto was very good, the story is truly set in the middle of nowhere, showing the emptiness surrounding the abandoned house. The movie keeps the atmosphere (with effective photography by Tsuyoshi Kimoto) and tension strong and never takes a break with it once it kicks in. Malevolence is a horror film for the horror fans. The film tastefully payed homage to the great slasher movies of the 70s and 80s. The characters are developed enough that they keep our interest, and the director Mena restrains the violence and on screen bloodshed, the musical score by Mena is probably the best I've heard in a low-budget film, plays like a homage to John Carpenter. Editing by Stevan Mena n Eddie Akmal was excellent. Variety said of the film: The mark of a good horror director is seldom in on screen gore, but rather the ability to make every anticipatory moment tingle with dread. On that level, Stevan Mena's first feature Malevolence scores well, building a grim atmosphere sans Scream-style winking to tell its tale of bank robbers who choose the wrong abandoned rural house to hide out in.

flame466 Where should eye begin........? Well first of all if eye could have gave this movie a lower rating than eye would have given it a -2. Second off this movie had no purpose or meaning at all. There's this one scene where a woman and her daughter are tied up and knelled down in front of a kidnapper and also duct tape around their mouths, when from behind the kidnapper and coming down the stairs is the killer. Now at this point the daughter and the mother can both see the killer and are going out of their way to lean and look around the kidnapper while screaming under their duct taped mouths and the kidnapper never turned around which he ended up killed by the killer. Third thing is he didn't even kill the woman and her daughter the next scene just showed them still tied up and no sign of the killer or the body of the kidnapper. Movies like this is why good slasher flicks have become "extincsolete (obsolete/extinct) ". See this movie has forced me to make up a word that doesn't exist. All eye'm saying is if u watch this movie u will be very, very, very upset. That's if u have good taste in horror/slasher flicks.

joemamaohio Three bank robbers take refuge in an abandoned house (with a mother-daughter hostage). Unbeknownst to any of them, a serial killer is stalking them and killing them one by one. Who is behind it, and what is the motive? I rated it a 5 because it was alright for a cheap horror flick. It had a story, which is something most horror films don't have, and the acting was slightly above par. The storyline itself involving the killer is pretty weak, but apparently it's only the middle story of a trilogy that hopefully will never be made. It's worth one watch, just to catch the storyline, but I would say that would be enough when it comes to "Malevolence."