Malevolence - The Memorable TV DVD Review

A gang of four commit a bank robbery which goes wrong when one of them is shot. One goes off on his own, hi-jacks a car and drives to a lonely deserted farmhouse with the car's mother and daughter hostage. Unfortunately it's one of those deserted farmhouses where a crazed serial killer lives and he soon starts terrorising them and despatches the robber and

adopts the disguise he was wearing, and then when the other two robbers arrive (the third having died of his wound) they are also stalked by the killer. The mother and daughter are always on the brink of death but just manage to escape each time but will they survive through to the end ...?

The killer is somehow linked to the opening sequence of the film set 10 years beforehand where a young boy is forced to witness to brutal slaughtering of a young teenage girl in a basement.

SO IS IT ANY GOOD?

It's a workmanlike shocker/horror with people being stalked by a mad killer, but nothing that hasn't been seen before in countless other such movies. It has echoes of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre with the lonely house setting where a serial killer has lived unnoticed for years - although this film is thankfully not so graphic in its kill-scenes.

Possibly the title somewhat overplays it making it sound like it might have a supernatural flavour - but there's no such theme to the story.

If you've never seen such a film before then this is perfectly fine, but within its own genre it adds nothing particularly special to make it stand out.

ANY SPECIAL FEATURES?

Interview sequences with some of the cast and the two directors.