Official Dreadit Discussion: "Malignant" [SPOILERS]

Great, fun, and absolutely bonkers flick for me. A nice, gory, stylish love letter to 80's horror. But I want to critique something that's driving me absolutely insane about some other's critiques of the film.

People claim that this turns into an "action movie" in the last 20 minutes. As if somehow, a film cranking up the energy, and showing a super-human killer very brutally slaughtering rooms of people in rapid succession is what makes something "action". I wonder if any of these people have seen an "action" movie in their lives. I feel like, apparently, according to these critiques, a lot of people are closed-minded enough to consider anything that is more fast-paced, "action". Calling those scenes "action scenes" is as ridiculous as calling the scenes in which Ghostface stalks and fights with his victims "action". Or the scenes in last year's "Invisible Man", where the titular bad guy very brutally, and quickly kills of rooms full of people.

It's been a while since we've had a high-energy, surreal and gory slasher flick on screen like this, and I suppose people have forgotten that horror can be, and has been, this way for a long time. I'm glad to see Wan make an attempt to bring the big-budget B horror back to the screen.

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