shawnblackman
A man goes through an ordeal of losing his wife to cancer and takes solace in a bottle. Brad Dourif plays a demented doctor who decides to help him fight his addiction using unorthodox methods. These methods involve cutting him open and planting the latest mind control equipment. His therapy is simple, if he drinks he'll blackout and wake up next to a dead body that he murdered (he's usually provided with a video of him doing it). If he doesn't drink he'll be fine of course, but that never is the case.Dourif does a good job with the script he was given but it is a weak script. Most of it does seem far fetched but to each his own. It did remind me of Chop (2011) where the guy would wake up every morning with some body part cut off.This film did have a couple of scenes where a punch type tool was inserted behind the eye and tapped into the brain. I did get a slight headache from that one.
movieman_kev
Allex, understandably distraught at his wife's death, takes up the bottle. Now, after months living in a drunken haze, he finds himself in the midst of a fiendish plot by a nameless enigmatic voice (Genre mainstay, Brad Dourif) to rid him of his vice once and for all in this slow-burning little horror film.Although Mr. Dourif is undeniably the 'highlight' of this film, that's my by default as the rest of the film is pretty awful. The main gist of the movie felt extremely padded and could've been told in 45 minutes tops to get rid of some needless repetition. As far as Brad films go, i'd put it way down with the abysmal "Junkyard Dog"
arfdawg-1
After the death of his wife, a grieving man becomes the victim of a horrific experiment to cure his addiction.I don't give super reviews willy nilly.I noted that this movie got one great review, one good review and one bad review.It definitely deserves a good review.Yes, there are some silly parts, but it kept my attention and I was interested in how it turned out.Some scenes defy logic but it's a movie. And for that matter, a movie with a $2 mil budget.What does Brad Doriff get? $200k? So he gets 10% of the funds?It does a lot with a minuscule amount of money. The original title was way better. The ending is anti-climatic so it gets a 7.
lance-schmidt
Brian Avenet-Bradley has yet another hit! As a fan of Dark Remains it comes as no surprise that Brian has done it again. First a story that breaks new ground that unfortunately science is close to breaching, the possibilities of life eventually imitating art are freakishly scary. Science is close to such break troughs as could lead to the possibilities of all sorts of nefarious possibilities. At present pacemakers can be tampered with and that is only the start, but I digress. The story is compelling and well crafted. The acting by both Gary Cairns and Nick Nicotera was superb. However, the villainous deranged man was portrayed ever so effortlessly by the incomparable Brad Douirf. Signing him to the film is as fantastic as the story is creative. With out a masterful and believable villain the film would become a comedy. I could watch Brad read the phone book and be scared if he did it in the guise of this character. Science blends with science fiction in the creepiest of ways in Malignant. Watch it before you sign up for the new insurance exchanges, equally scary!
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