Themes: Serial Killers, Crime Gone Awry, Kidnapping
Main Cast: Samantha Dark, Brandon Johnson, Heather Magee, Richard Glover, Courtney Bertolone
Release Year: 2004
Country: US
Run Time: 90 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
A handful of bank robbers on the run stumble upon a danger far worse than the police in this horror opus. Julian (Brandon Johnson) and Marylin (Heather Magee) are a young couple who have fallen deep in debt. Desperate to get back on their feet again, they team up with Marylin's brother Max (Keith Chambers), an ex-con, and his buddy Kurt (Richard Glover) to rob a bank. On the run from the law after the robbery turns into a shoot-out, Kurt impulsively grabs a woman named Samatha (Samatha Dark) and her daughter as hostages, and head out to what they believe is an abandoned farmhouse in a sparsely populated rural village. However, the thieves and the hostages quickly discover the house is not abandoned after all; a serial killer who has been preying on the community for decades has been using the house as a base of operations, and the criminals soon find themselves at the mercy of a horror more gruesome than they could ever have imagined. Malevolence is the first feature film from long-time horror fan Stevan Mena. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Cast
Samantha Dark - Samantha
Brandon Johnson - Julian
Heather Magee - Marylin
Richard Glover - Kurt
Courtney Bertolone - Courtney
John Richard Ingram - Sheriff Riley; Keith Chambers - Max; Mia Lotringer - Valerie; Kevin McKelvy - Agent Perkins
Credit
Eddie Akmal - Associate Producer, Robert Vinci - Co-producer, Stevan Mena - Director, Stevan Mena - Editor, Eddie Akmal - Editor, Alex That - Executive Producer, Stevan Mena - Composer (Music Score), Lance Orlando - Makeup, Andy Pan - Production Designer, Tsuyoshi Kimoto - Cinematographer, Stevan Mena - Producer, Jason O'Neill - Sound/Sound Designer, Stevan Mena - Screenwriter, Pierre Vial - Set Decorator, Jose Pavon - Set Decorator
A woman and her daughter had been kidnapped by a bunch of bank robbers who have decided to stay the night in a house in the middle of nowhere. When the daughter manages to escape to a nearby house, she has no idea that she just escaped into the house of a serial killing psychopath, putting not herself but also her mother and the robbers in fatal danger.
