The Worst: Malignant
This one will probably be our most divisive entry this year. You either love or hate Malignant, there’s no in-between. Perhaps if the marketing for James Wan’s latest horror entry intimated the campy tone of the film it would have been more successful overall. Even then, this easily telegraphed tale starring Annabelle Wallis as a woman with horrors in her past and present didn’t land. That’s not to say the film didn’t have style, there’s just one good scene in the entire film. Michole Briana White and George Young’s police team are bright spots in an otherwise oddly toned movie that treated adoption as some shocking, foreign concept. How did the villain gain these extraordinary powers? You won’t care, promise. Also? Complete waste and misuse of Zöe Bell. For shame.
