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  Review by David Chen ★★★★ 56

  This happened to my friend Susan

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★½

  Me, 20 minutes in: Really? This is it?

  Me, 80 minutes in: lololololol yes absolutely please never end

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  Review by kársten ★★★½

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  great addition to the “‘where is my mind’ by the pixies in a movie where two people end up being one person” cinematic universe

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★ 21

  This movie opens with a shot of a huge terrifying hospital on a cliff surrounded by lots of fog so 2 seconds in you know it's going to rip

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  Review by Jay ★★★★ 16

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  and they were wombmates

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  Review by Muriel 3

  need a hit of whatever james wan is smoking

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 40

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  How lucky are we to exist in a timeline where James Wan goes from directing the gonzo epic Aquaman to spicing up his own Horror resume with something like Malignant? If I had to describe a movie that checks every sort of box to appeal to me personally, it's this. Not only riffing on Gialli, James Wan returns to his terror roots with bone-deep references of splatter horror and 80s grindhouse. Mixes of Dario Argento, Frank Henenlotter, David Cronenberg, maybe even a dash of Sam Raimi. But it's all James Wan in function and practice. From the sincerity of its humor, to how the comedy is woven into the physically absurd action set-pieces, all while on the surface, the film is operating as a haunted house/serial killer procedural with undercurrents of campy melodrama. It's a great example of a delirious and delightful late-night scare-fest.

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★½ 8

  are you KIDDING me with this shit this movie fucking rules. loved it beginning to end. had heard the ending was insanely good and yes it is but i honestly loved the kitschy, soapy procedural feel of the beginning too before it all went sicko mode. need me a freak like gabriel!!! if i ever see james wan in public it’s on sight (kissing on the mouth)

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  Review by Lucy ★★★ 22

  if you get it you get it if you don’t you don’t if you know you know… and if you don’t know then i honestly feel bad for you

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  Review by taran ★★★★½ 15

  i’m james wan’s whore 

  
  fuck all of you

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 9

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  a near-perfect merging of the ostentatious, expensive digital trickery wan's been experimenting with for the last decade at wb (all insane wide-angle lens oners and impossible dolly/crane maneuvers through small spaces) and the unfashionably trashy, high-concept, nu-metal shock genre sensibilities that were popular around the time he got into making movies. both have been fused here into a delightfully unruly mess that tricks you by pretending to be another polished haunted house trauma movie for a bit, then a serial murder mystery with the kind of surreal, gory, primary-color-lit sequencing you'd expect of italy; all before pulling the rug on both to reveal an... action movie version of the grindhouse, conjoined-creature splatter-horror of frank henenlotter? it's deeply stupid in retrospect,…

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  Review by Ian West ★★★★★ 103

  Malignant feels like an unhinged James Wan directing a Corman produced Sam Raimi supernatural giallo-esque grindhouse joint written by Frank Henenlotter.

  This is James Wan’s Ghosthouse, an everything to 11 pulpy trash kitchen sink movie that doubles down on the gore while still pulling off those slow zoom tense set-pieces he’s become known for. It looks gorgeous, I loved the score, and it uniquely meshes genres while upping the frantic nature of big budget late summer horror with Wan’s usual stylish flair… and a heightened sense of don’t give a damn absurdity. 

  It’s a weird movie that’s for sure, and it’s so tonally different from what Wan has been doing but I like that. He more or less dominated and influenced…