Malefic (2003 Video) User Reviews

We have your daughter.

[lastliberal · 5/10 · 10 August 2008]

The movie is promising with an opening that is really creepy as two lovers use a cabin for their fun and games. The movie has promise as it starts with full frontal (Sequoia Rose Fuller), rare in low budget flicks like this.

Fast forward to the primary reason I watched this flick - Lilith Stabs. She appears with a goth gang bearing what looks like a small casket. Ah, it is - a dead eight-month-old girl. We get a look at juicy Cynder Moon, but not as much as we want. They are holding the remains for ransom. They call the father who is with his mistress, the juicy Dawn DuVurger, the vampire girl from Cremains. Oh, what a delicious pair she has! They find a diary from the home's owner and strange tales of a creature from beyond. Now, we know what happened to the couple in the original cabin. But, hey, is anyone going to get naked again. Two of the three who have are dead. Maybe the creature will rip off someone's clothes, but that rarely happens.

This movie has almost as many bugs as Gacy.

Here we are, bath time, and those luscious watermelons top off a full frontal display before the creature comes. Too late for Cynder, but someone had the foresight to bring a started pistol to kill the creature. Are there more? Oh, yes, zombie gore, as the honeydews go on the attack - completely naked, I may add with glee.

Do we ever see Lilith's treasures? That part is not certain. You tell me. Maybe the body is still in the woods, but you have to risk the creature to find out.

For a low budget film, it was definitely entertaining, and I like the fact that it was shot in black and white. It added to the creepiness.

nothing special

[evilzeus · 1/10 · 26 March 2004]

Sure, there are good movies,and bad movies. This is just one of the "wannabe" good horror movies. In my opinion it`s bad,with no good, original idea. A waste of time. Trying to make a hobby dark movie,with satanism, x-files tricks and vhs camera,it`s not original enough to be put into the category where it is now. Despite the fact,the main female actor is quite good looking, i missed everything,but having a bad time looking at the way she acted.I don`t know,is this movie so,because it wants to be non-professional or is it a fact that some people just need to spend their money on crap like that. Maybe it would have been a better score for me,if i belonged to a group of people like those in the movie. Who knows,or if i smoked some illegal drugs or had 2 much alcohol. The way life is. There will always be good and bad movies. Ugly is the word.

Bleak and grainy

[jfgibson73 · 6/10 · 3 January 2011]

I really enjoyed this movie, despite its shortcomings. The story, first of all, is a nice departure for a horror film: four scumbags try to ransom the remains of a dead baby back to the father. The filmmakers did a good job creating atmosphere with the look of the movie--some people would be put off by the grainy look, odd angles, and disorienting cuts, but it worked for me. They hide out in a cabin in the woods and play around with a Ouija board, which causes some supernatural monster to come after them. The movie never totally becomes a cliché, but it gets really close to going off track during a chase sequence that goes WAY too long. I liked how the father of the dead baby was established as being just as sleazy as the criminals because it makes the movie feel like it is taking place somewhere totally depraved, where no one has any redeeming qualities. I also liked the scene where he handed over the money to the surviving ransomer, who couldn't wait for the whole thing to be over. The bottom line was that I liked the look and feel of this movie a lot. It was a little bit different and very atmospheric. I don't think I would have liked it nearly as much if had been made with a larger budget--the low-fi approach made a big difference here.