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Malevolent (2018)

Malevolent poster
Directed by
Olaf de Fleur
Genre
horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
16
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 557 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A brother and sister run a scam pretending to hunt ghosts. When they take a job at a remote country house, they encounter something real and terrifying.

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What happens

Malevolent is a 2018 British supernatural horror film directed by Olaf de Fleur Johannesson from a screenplay by Ben Ketai and Eva Konstantopoulos, based on her 2011 novel Hush. The film stars Florence Pugh and Ben Lloyd-Hughes as a brother–sister team of scam artists who fake paranormal encounters. During an assignment at a country house, the team get more than they bargained for, and begin to lose their grip on reality. The cast also features Scott Chambers, Georgina Bevan, James Cosmo and Celia Imrie. Malevolent was released on Netflix on 5 October 2018 to mixed reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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