Malevolence 3: Killer

Back in 2004, Stevan Mena directed a total Halloween rip-off called "Malevolence". After a bank robbery goes bad, the thieves kidnap a woman and her child and hole up in a house in the middle of nowhere. That's when Martin Bristol comes a' knockin'.

Basically, he wears coveralls (like Myers), but he's got a sack mask (like Jason 2). And he also loves to organize bones in a decorative manner (like Leatherface). He's also mute, and he doesn't feel pain due to a rare medical condition.

His backstory is shown in greater detail in the 2010 prequel "Bereavement", starring Alexandra Daddario in one of her first titulating roles, as well as Michael Biehn in a somewhat prominent role, albeit an ultimately generic one.

Still, the prequel is a lot more polished looking, but it's the most bleak of these movies either way. It was said that a trilogy was in the making, and it took a long time for us to get it. Apparently, one of the main cast members died, and the film needed a lot of reshoots, but it happened. The movie finally came out, but was it worth it?



So "Killer" aka "Malevolence 3" begins with the climax of the first film. Obviously, the prequel's events are less relevant, so they pick the movie up right after the first movie, only now, he doesn't have a mask. For the rest of the movie, we're relying on low-POV shots and minimal emphasis on this dude's ugly face, as he kills a bunch of people for no reason.

It looks as though Stevan Mena had to go back to the basics. The budget is considerably lower, and the film quality looks worse than the 2004 original. There are no elaborate stunts or effects. Mostly, he just uses a regular old knife, and there's a lot of cutaways. I think they were trying to make the killer into a 100% Michael Myers clone, but he falls shorts. Way short. The main difference is that he isn't wearing a mask this time (which took a lot of fun away from it, to be honest), and he wore a more brown set of coveralls, instead of blue. That's how you differentiate the two, by the color of their damn outfit. 🙄

The whole movie felt very plain and uninspired. Maybe that's just the way she goes... You start off in the biz with all this passion, but as life gives you a beatdown, it all turns to shit after a while. That's what happened for Malevolence 3. It's really very meh.

And another thing that threw me off, but I found it awkwardly hilarious that they included a movie on tv made by "Harry Panderecki", who was the main character in the director's other film "Brutal Massacre - A Comedy", which is to say that this exists in the same universe. What was the movie on tv though? "I'll Take the Ring Back... and the Finger, Too!"