Malicious (2018)
5/10
Not Scary But Entertaining
20 March 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Picture this: Four people sit in small room, filled with gear to listen for a spirit/demon/entity. There's a couple that's being haunted, a young college student who seems to work every job at the campus, and a blind professor of math and parapsychology. Two people manage the listening equipment. The young college student manages the tape recorder. Another person manages the computer and tries to observe a visual representation of audio activity. Who do they put in front of the monitor that shows the audio activity? THE ONLY PERSON IN THE ROOM WHO CAN'T SEE.

So of course when something happens on the screen, the blind man asks "What's going on?" The college student has to come over to look and then go back to the tapes. Why didn't they just put the college student in front of the monitor and the tapes? He was doing everything else anyways, including building maintenance, welcoming new tenants, garbage removal, and ferrying the blind professor around.

Verdict: The plot, characters, and scares we're all cliche, but it was just stupid enough to be funny at times. The acting is good enough, but the writing is weak. The only scares are jump scares, and they're weak too. The best aspects of this movie are the production quality and the acting. Everything else is bad.
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