Malum: reviews

What the critics say average 6.4 from 16 outlets

• 9.0 Macabre DailyMatthew Orozco MALUM is a triumphant reimagining of an already outstanding film that elevates the prior material with excellent world-building, captivating performances, and some hellish practical effects. Read
• 9.0 EspinofJorge Loser 'Malum' brings back the fascination of the macabre surprise, narrative economy with razor-sharp editing and a vindication of 80s and 90s horror literature on screen. Read
• 8.0 NerdlyJim Morazzini In the opposite of Last Shift’s progression, the final act of Malum is actually the film’s best part. Read
• 7.5 Roger EbertMatt Zoller Seitz The jump scares work (jump scares almost always do; they’re the easiest way to convince the audience that they’ve gotten their money’s worth), but “Malum” is much more impressive when it turns its talented ensemble cast loose on material that was obviously a lot of fun to play with. Read
• 7.0 Bloody DisgustingMeagan Navarro The hellish designs of the cult’s denizens are fantastic, especially as the film builds to a satisfying climactic confrontation. Read
• 7.0 UK Film ReviewHope Madden The result is a solid, blood soaked bit of genre entertainment fully worthy of your 92 minutes. Read
• 7.0 Love HorrorTom Atkinson In a genre often crowded with clichés, Malum stands out as a nightmarish journey into familiar territory, but one which hides plenty of surprises in its sinister corridors. Read
• 7.0 Film StoriesMaria Lattila It somehow manages the impossible of not only being a decent remake, but also doing something different as well. Read
• 6.5 Paste MagazineMatt Donato A lot of dreamlike logic floats through a freakish onslaught of dependably scary imagery strung together by what fits a moment versus the fluid nature of a more captivating survival scenario. Read
• 6.0 CinemaníaEnrique Abenia Director Anthony DiBlasi reshapes and expands what he set down in the underrated ‘Last Shift’, building a gorier remake with more powerful imagery in which you feel immersed in the satanic cult it depicts. Read
• 6.0 Dread CentralTyler Doupe' Malum carves out a different path than its predecessor and it stands on its own. But with the skeletal outline loosely mirroring the events of the previous film, I didn’t get quite as much bang for my buck. Read
• 6.0 Heaven of HorrorKarina Adelgaard I can just confirm that Jessica Sula is very capable of carrying a movie! Read
• 5.0 Rue MorgueRicky J. Duarte Somewhere between these two “just-okay” movies, there’s an actual “good” movie. Read
• 4.0 The Austin ChronicleRichard Whittaker Malum has enough budget to be too glossy to be gutter fun, and adds little visually much beyond some very mediocre practical effects, often feeling that – yet again – its ambitions outstripped its grasp. Read
• 4.0 The GuardianPhil Hoad DiBlasi, though, doesn’t have much sense of how to parse this hackneyed occult screed into sequences with any true tension, instead he just has this stricken cop bounce headlessly around between corridors and cells. Read
• 4.0 The Movie WafflerEric Hillis The more Jessica is splashed with blood, the more Sula's empathetic performance, which had been the film's greatest asset, is drowned in a sea of spook show shenanigans. Read