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“After this, my wife told me I’m not allowed to pick the movies anymore”. Put that on your packaging, _Malignant_

The villain hucking a chair at the two cops from across the room was the greatest cinematic moment of the year.

Spoiler review: My friends and I watched this as a group on Discord, riffing it the entire time. When it initially seems to be implying the horror is mental illness or vengeful miscarriage ghost we joked that all the creepy stuff she was doing were just the normal side effects of taking Tylenol. When we saw Gabriel for the first time, one of us said: "That's him, officer! That's Tylenol!" and we all died laughing. Then we just started calling Gabriel "Tylenol" for the rest of the movie. 10/10 comedy.

I loved how bad it was. I thought it was unbelievably silly. When Maddi revealed 20 minutes in that she was adopted and it played stinger music...after not developing her character even for a second...I knew I was gonna love it.

Don't forget that Madison and Gabriel's mother had her "evil pregnancy" as a result of actual sexual assault AND what "wakes Gabriel up" is Madison herself suffering physical assault by her shitty boyfriend which are....choices

You had my like at ‘bibbity bobbity Dook’ (Also appreciate the timer on sponsored content, thank you for ethical sponsorship Mildred)

You have to admit, disappearing a component of cereal that is both sprinkled on and baked in is pretty impressive. Bravo, Bobby

James is terrified of disco, I'm sure that's what that means

It's genius that you use Bobby for your ad reads. I'm not gonna skip Bobby.

Basket Case was about someone dealing with Ableism. This movie is, look campy ableism bc the devil. It brings to mind how people used to claim seizures were demonic and shit.

Thanks so much for talking about that jail scene, like the dehumanization of the women in there really rubbed me the wrong way, and there was no explanation for why they were doing what they were doing.

Hey, Mildred, I just wanted to say I'm glad that you've recovered from that mysterious illness you were suffering from through the month of September. It's obviously none of my business what you were suffering from or how you caught it, but it looks like the week off you took really helped you recover, and I'm glad you're doing better.

So in other words, it's _Basket Case_ if it, without anesthetic, had all of the nuance that made it a Cult Classic surgically removed. Oh, the irony.

The one thing I really enjoyed about this movie was the effects and the set pieces. The most ridiculous part for me was when she fell through the ceiling and they're like "omg you're the killer all along" and I was like, how would no one notice the ridiculously-styled murder attic? And why the heck is it so fragile? At some point it almost feels more cartoon-like than anything, but the fight sequences were interesting to watch. I was definitely laughing a ton - more than I should given the tone.

"what's wrong with malignant" nothing, it's perfect, it's a build up to a joke that its delivered to us masterfully with that scene in the police department, specially when the thing just fucking yeets a chair into 2 cops

I dunno what it is about Mildew's humor that just hits the exact right spot for me. Maybe it's vacillating wildly between cheekily calling someone a dicknose and using the phrase "like unto a Basket Case".

OIn other words, this movie is entirely in keeping with the theme of a lot of horror movies that deformity marks a person as evil!

So Malignant is lazier than that one episode of the Simpson, where Bart is revealed to be the evil twin?

bood, bood bood..... bood, bood bood... *picking up phone* "Welcome Police Department Outreach Evening Line, this is Sarah, how may I direct your Outreachy day?" "Officer, I'd like to report a murder. Yeah. It was on KZfaq."

I.. genuinely loved this movie in spite of itself. It's bad, for sure. But it's delightful schlock that goes way over the top.

....omg. I totally forgot that CATS was the movie I last watched in theatres. I can't wait for Dune to come out so I can break that streak lol

Few people manage to make the sponsor part of the video actually entertaining. But you have done so consistently. Great job Mildred

This movie feels more like a superhero origin story than a horror story. I could see the main character using her Gabriel super-strength to fight antifa or whatever James Wan thinks superheroes do in 2021.

all the people defending the movie by being like, "it's not serious" -- Mildred literally recommends this as so bad it's funny. that doesn't mean that the movie is unimpeachable. it can be ridiculous and just goofing around *and* be rooted in a shitty worldview all at the same time 🤷

Malignant is a weird one because for most of the movie I despised it on a deep level for how terrible it was, but in the third act I had a blast. This raises the question if it takes my standards being actively lowered for me to have a good time or if the movie actually became fun at the end. Shockingly, I kind of had fun by the end, but purely because the movie gave up on the pretext of being a normal competent movie and just went wild.

WAIT THE MOVIE EVERYONE WAS RAVING AROUND WAS JUST BASKET CASE BUT WORSE WHAT

Thank you! I'm so tired of hearing people say how it was tongue-in-cheek and giving it positive reviews as though it was intentionally, satirically shlocky. It really wasn't: it takes itself so seriously and is clearly just genuinely dumb.

Well you see he has electricity powers to fake you out into believing it's something supernatural, but twist it is something supernatural it's just not a ghost or a demon like Wan's other movies it's a conjoined twin who is psychic.

Malignant started off interesting and almost immediately went WILDLY off the rails

I genuinely can't believe you didn't love it. This was my favorite movie of the year. I watched it at home and then willingly paid to watch it again in a theater.

Funny story: MY wife picked this movie and I told her she wasn’t allowed to pick the movies anymore.

OKAY SO i can totally see where you’re coming from and agree that the messaging of the movie is a little fucked, but that’s where my agreement ends. the movie was DEFINITELY in on the joke, and i think where you think you were laughing at the movie, the movie was definitely laughing with you. to me, the movie read as mainstream 80s slasher. schlocky, violent, over-explained, the antagonist is a scary overpowered man with inexplicable powers, the protagonist is a brunette with no personality. that’s why all the fog machines, the spooky lab on the side of a cliff, the cartoony fight sequences. i think the disco woman is really there to hammer home the reference to 70-80s horror. i’m not denying your reading, but that’s my interpretation of the intention. all that said, to claim the movie isn’t “in on the joke” sort of misses the point. TL;DR i love malignant and will defend it til i die

Poor Mildred's wife

I love how the running joke everytime he picks up the phone per episode is "Oh weird, I never do this"

This sounds like a big budget Charles Band production.

First off, I'm so glad Scaredy Cats is back! I really missed it last week. Also, you make it easy for us to skip your sponsored content, but the way you do it is way more amusing than any other creator I have watched, so I still watch it, lol. Bravo! It seems like Malignant has the same worldview as the Conjuring. That conservative "satanic panic" mindset that anything off the beaten path is scary and dangerous and will destroy you. There is no nuance. all your bigoted fears are justified because if it doesn't look like you or pretty its disgusting and eeeeeeviiiiiillll.

Utterly and completely shocked you didn't like this ridiculous bonkers movie. From the terrible dialogue, the crazy fights, the "50 years of prison exploitation movies in one room" scenes with Zoe Bell, everything in this was nuts and pure entertainment. It even had a "why is this woman in the movie? Is she the director's girlfriend?" and she was! This was schlock horror at its finest. The most unrealistic part was a nurse and a deadbeat husband owning a house like that in Seattle. My god. You have no idea.

Good job making the sponsor read entertaining. And nice work on the animation, too! That was a really entertaining bit.

bobby dook and mildred have such great chemistry I love them both

Bobby Duke would have understood the genius of Malignant and this is why Bobby is the star of the channel.

Also.... weird that the 70s disco dancer woman has a chain in lock up..

The "evil" character kills a bunch of cops? So not all bad

It's so vindicating to hear someone else dump on this movie. We were so mad when we got to the end. What a thoughtless waste of time and money.

This is fantastic. I also loved the film for being so off the wall. I noticed almost everything you critiqued, but I gave the movie a bit too much benefit of doubt in some spots. Specifically the prison scene and implication that eugenics is good sometimes. Also the lack of consideration for people who’ve been through miscarriages. These parts are regrettable to say the least. That said, I think some parts could be viewed differently. I thought the movie was bringing into question the efficacy of medical and prison institutions. The doctors did terrible things to Gabriel and never once tried to do right by him. I could be misremembering, but I thought the point was they were using him for testing/experiments once they understood his potential power. The safety of the MC was squarely below their own safety and research endeavors. I need to rewatch before I go on, but my point is that I’M the one who thought too hard about this movie. You did indeed think the normal amount. Thanks for your work as always.

James Wan just picks up a Thesaurus and lucks up synonyms for bad, when deciding what to name his films.

Okay but I have to say about James Wan... that the Saw movies are genuinely some of the best entrees the comedy genre has ever received. Like the first one is kinda like, nonsense, but the sort of nonsense where you're like "Obviously this is bullshit but it's at least fun like an escape room kinda deal" And it's all like, super intense when Cary Elwes cuts off his leg so he can reach a phone that he needs to answer for no good reason, and the phone isn't that far out of reach, and he takes his shirt off and you think "Oh he's going to use the shirt to drag the phone to him because that would be really easy to do and they already used that trick so they clearly have thought of it already" but instead he uses it as a tourniquet so he can cut off his foot... that kind of stupid nonsense but perfectly fine fun... And then the sequels get progressively more and more silly, while taking themselves even more seriously, and they clearly think they're really cool and impressive, and then the guy who takes over from Jigsaw is so clearly somebody's fanfiction self-insert OC, and how can you not love those movies and not just completely bust a gut laughing at them

Important context! This film was in part his wife's idea-- she also helped write the script and played the awkward and very horny forensics cop! No prize for guessing who the cop her character is so attracted to represents (hint: it's the cop that drives a sports car lmao). So it's likely Mr. Wan used his clout with WB to green light this wicked bad idea he and his wife had - although it is very important to emphasise that this does not place the blame on Ingrid. She isn't an experienced director and script writer with 40 million dollars and a small army of crew behind her. Just some juicy context for why it's not his usual junk.

holy shit your makeup in this video, Mildred. Awesome.

I'm so glad someone else thought this was garbage. I watched it with some friends, and they all loved it. I thought maybe I was the asshole in that instance, but I do feel better about it. That big reveal? I laughed so hard I had to mute my mic!

Yoo id love to see you talk about “daybreakers”. Great cast and fleshed out world of a vampire society. Theres also some pretty subtle critiques of capitalism i think youd enjoy. Like how the most important resource (blood) is handled by a corporation which leads to global shortages, and the people who cant afford the rising price start turning into monsters (the movie is sympathetic though) that society just straight up starts executing despite it being everyones fate if things keep going the way they are. And the people responsible are aware and dont care cuz profit

I am surprised you didn’t like it! To me, it had the bonkers energy of some of my fav 80s horror movies. Also it changed genres four times. Would I say it’s good? I don’t know or really care. Lol I was glued to the screen the whole time! Appreciate your perspective though. 🖤

This movie is glorious. High camp hilarious shlock from start to finish. Just utter perfection. It is a gift to humanity. Embrace it. Embrace the beauty of Malignant.

Everyone told me to watch this movie, and I was hesitant because I don't like James Wan at all, but I gave it a chance, as soon as they say in the very first scene that they are gonna 'cut out the cancer' my immediate reaction was 'please don't be a rip off of Basket Case' and then it was

The movie(s) that made my partner revoke my movie-deciding privileges were Teeth (2007) and Black Sheep (2006). (Our movie nights were usually double features).

Hi have I mentioned this is my favourite channel on KZfaq? It is well done.

Thank you for pointing out that weird racism in the jail. I was like "whats Foxxy Brown doing here... isn't this a modern--... wait, why is she being painted as such a threat for sitting there... other than her being some weird disco time traveler?"

Thank you for convincing me that I absolutely need to see this movie. Love warming myself by a dumpster fire, there's nothing better.

This review makes me feel better about the harsh criticisms I had about The Conjuring movies. I'm no longer worried I was reading too far into it.

Wait, you were allowed to choose the movies in your relationship? Mildred, my wife revoked this privilege already 10 years ago from me....

Honestly, I loved that they went so crazy with it. I was laughing for the the last 20 minutes non stop. It just became a comic book movie and I was down for it.

OK YES AS SOON AS I SAW THIS IN THEATRES I WAS PRAYING IT WOULD BE COVERED ON THIS CHANNEL! One thing you didn’t mention that I’ve been mulling over is the way the movie deals with gender. And specifically how it deals with Gabriel’s gender. The main character, in the movie, is portrayed as your average, womanly woman right? But concealed inside her, via surgery no less, is a violent, predatory, child-hating male identity. This identity comes out, changes the main characters gender expression, and spends his time causing harm to people. Anyone well versed in trans theory can recognize this as some really weird themes.

Off-topic, but your eyeshadow looks fantastic in this video, I'm jealous

Watched this with a buddy and some drinks, really the way to do it. When that 3rd act reveal happened, we could not stop laughing. I really needed to have a moment like that, it was the funniest thing ever. I love this movie lol I will remember that for a long time. This is a riot

I'm sad you didn't like it. I loved it so much. I loved seeing a modern Giallo take from Wan and the campy over-the-top stuff had me smiling ear-to-ear.

"They got a 100% happiness guarantee." Me: Is depressed.

Malignant is one of those movies that could have been reworked from the ground up while keeping the same basic concept and maybe stood a chance. Like Passengers.

"Guess what Dicknose" is now my go-to hello forever now, thank you Mil-dread for this linguistic treat

I feel like you’re exploiting my love for Bobby Dook to sell cereal. That said, thank you for using Bobby Dook to sell cereal.

They HAD to know what they were making. Minus all hyperbole, I was laughing so hard during this movie I teared up.

" why is in there?... Fuck you! That why " totally amazeballz... Your videos are the highlight of my week!

Even with the counter for perfect skipping, this is the first sponsored content I have never skipped. You're some kind of witch.

Love this video! This was awesome and love the man shadow!

"you cant see the sugar in a cereal" wow i guess you cant see why kids love cinnamon toast crunch

Thank you for this. I am continuously baffled how anyone could have actually enjoyed this movie. Like, by the third act when it's supposed to get fun I was so bored and insulted that I couldn't even enjoy it ironically. And the politics are so deeply, deeply fucked. I'm shocked that, in the many comments I've read so far, nobody has even touched on the weird, gross, and utterly pointless spousal abuse that opens the movie and is then never, ever talked about again.

"Absolute riot! The laugh a minute comedy of the year!" -Me

I feel so validated right now

the plum lip with plum eye - chef's kiss

Damn, magic spoon is targeted directly toward how stoned I am

I wouldn't need Magic Spoon if Bobby would spoon me.

This whole movie was just the most violently ableist manifesto I think I’ve seen in years.

Has... Anyone noticed that Bobbydook keeps getting more and more real as time goes by? Is Mildred going to become... More and more animated until he vanishes and is replaced by Bobbydook completely? 😳

Makeup's lookin' great! Also... I don't know if I can ever actually pay $40 for some cereal. But I'll keep clickin' on the links.

the big cop fight scene was so hilariously bad, especially towards the end when Gabriel decided to just knock out the only named characters in the scene for no reason despite ruthlessly killing everyone else

Mildread’s wife sounds cool

I streamed it... and enjoyed it from the "so bad it is good" point of view. I would not have been happy if I had paid at the theater, however.

‘A gooey creep does murder ballet’ 🤣🤣🤣 your reviews are the best!! I just put you on a playlist and go

my friend and i kinda.. walked out on the very obvious lesbian panic scene

I feel like someone owes Henenlotter a lot after this movie.

This is the only channel where I don’t skip the sponsored content. #dastarofmyheart

Soon Bobby Dook will have had more career paths than Homer Simpson.

I guess I’ll never understand how there are people who legitimately enjoyed this movie

A pro-institutional strength movie without subtlety from the guy who turned professional con-artists into demon fighting religious superheroes? I am shocked, SHOCKED!

I knew I could count on you to absolutely refuse to let this movie get away with its bullshit. Too many trusted friends were celebrating this movie, and I feel like it's just a sad consequence of everyone being starved for truly bizarre horror movies. But, they still need heart dammit! And this thing just made me wonder if I had been dosed with bath salts.

You had me until "free of soy"

probably the funniest intro youve ever done on scaredy cats

BISH! always wear purple eye shadow you look awesome in that shade. much luv-a-dook to Bobby and Milly!

I watched it the last couple hours it was on HBO and I’m so glad I did. When Gabriel launched the chair WWE style I completely lost it.

i agree with you on your ideological points, and i also hate james wan's horror movies, but i've gotta disagree that you were laughing at the movie rather than with it. there was no way the goofiness in this film was not intentional--i think wan did a really amazing thing by making the worst movie he could with the best possible production values

Saw way too many people hype this up, I was hoping you'd bring a reasonable take lol. Movie was bad, but I guess still far better than most of Wan's stuff so people were shocked?