MALIGNANT (15)
Malaysian-born filmmaker James Wan has an enviable track record with the horror genre. In 2004, he made his feature film directorial debut with the first instalment of Saw, giving birth to one of the highest grossing horror sagas of all time.
Subsequently, he helmed the opening chapters of Insidious and The Conjuring, sowing the seeds of new horror franchises.
Malignant is Wan’s latest exercise in big screen terror.
Madison (Annabelle Wallis) is plagued by visions of grisly murders including the death of Dr Florence Weaver (Jacqueline McKenzie) in her home.
Her sense of unease grows when Madison discovers that these blood-soaked waking dreams are terrifying reality.
She confesses to closest confidante Sydney (Maddie Hasson) that she is seeing crimes as they are happening.
Convinced that she has an emotional connection to the culprit, Madison looks back through videotape evidence of her troubled childhood and recalls she invented an imaginary friend called Gabriel.
This presence seems to be connected to Madison’s macabre premonitions.
In cinemas from Friday