Have its moments but suffers from leaden pace and a serial killer straight from the handbook of clichéd psychos. The latter played by Brett Rickaby who kidnaps six years old Martin Bristol (Spencer List) in rural Pennsylvania circa 1989. Martin has CIPA - a disorder where afflicted individual is insensitive to any physical pain. Five years later and countless young women dead in hideous manner at his hands, Graham sets his sight on new kid in the small farming town Allison Miller (Alexandra Daddario). Standing between her impending dire fate and the deranged lunatic is very reluctant and traumatized protégé Martin. Pointless, unpleasant and overlong prequel to Malevolence (2004) is first in three-part planned trilogy. Multi-tasker Steven Mena (writer-director-music-editing-producer) bites off more than he can chew.
Review of Bereavement
