2023 · horror
Malum
Directed by Anthony DiBlasi1h 32m2023
A rookie police officer willingly takes the last shift at a newly decommissioned police station in an attempt to uncover the mysterious connection between her father's death and a vicious cult.
Our read: Malum (2023) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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“You want a lone overnight shift in a haunted precinct crawling with cult evil.”
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