When you think of the word malignant, the first thing that comes to mind is something that is harmful and dangerous. So when the movie trailer came out, there was this curiosity as to what exactly is the threat in the movie?
What exactly is Madison scared of?
Malignant is one of a kind horror movie that has the potential to be a cult horror movie. The third act of the movie is what will cement its place as the most craziest, effective, and mind-twisting movie ever made.
Why? Well, read below to find out.
MALIGNANT Movie Plot
When the movie begins, we meet Dr Florence Weaver in the year 1993. She is at a facility when an alarm sounds off for a patient called Gabriel. She heads to the ward and finds several of the staff slaughtered. She decides immediately that it is time to remove the cancer.
The patient is restrained and the operation is initiated.
Twenty-eight years later, we meet Madison who returns home after work. Her husband Derek lying on the bed itching for a fight. He gets physical too and bashes Madison's head against the wall. He freaks out when he sees blood and rushes out giving Madison enough time to lock the door and lie down.
But that's when the terror begins.
An intruder goes after Derek and kills him, leaving his body contorted by the stairs and for Madison to find him. She senses the intruder and runs into her bedroom but a forceful push renders her unconscious.
She awakens in the hospital with her sister Sydney by her side who laments that Madison lost her baby. She's grief-stricken and when she returns, is interviewed by the police detectives who later discuss between themselves that there was no forced entry and that it was a well-known fact that Madison was being abused.
Next we see a woman giving a tour of the Seattle underground. As soon as the visitors leave, she hears a noise and gets frightened when someone approaches her. She wakes up tied up to a wall and with tape on her mouth.
Madison is doing laundry when she suddenly sees someone running inside the house. She looks around, sees no-one and heads to the laundry room to put her clothes in the washing machine when a woman screams at her from the other side, asking her what she's doing in her house.
The interiors of Madison's house melts away and she finds herself in another house. The woman is attacked by the intruder and killed by the award she won. We find out she's none other than Dr Florence Weaver from the first scene.
So far Madison thinks she's dreaming. The detectives meanwhile, uncover information about Dr Weaver and how she specialised in reconstructive surgery. They also find a photo of a girl and give it to an artist so he can draw up a rendition of what she will look like as an adult.
Madison is at home, brushing her teeth when she looks in the mirror and sees an old man staring back at her. She goes to bed, turns on her side and gets paralysed with fear when she sees an old man. The interior disintegrates again and she is now in an apartment of the old man.
He too is murdered in a grisly manner by the same intruder who attacked Madison and killed Dr Weaver. This time, Madison sees its face.
Along with her sister, they go to the police the next morning. The detectives of course don't believe her or the drawing of the intruder made as per Madison's description because frankly, the picture looks like a monster straight out of a creature feature. Madison manages to convince them to go to the address she saw in her dream. The detectives reach there and of course, they find the corpse. They believe Madison finally, much to the happiness of Sydney who is into all the detective shows on TV who take in psychic consultants.
The artist who was asked to age the photo of a girl, meets with the detectives and show them the picture who looks none other than Madison.
When Madison returns home, she receives a call from the intruder, threatening her. She screams for Gabriel not to do it and realizes she personally knows the killer.
She makes a trip with her sister to see their mother. Madison does away with the pleasantries and straight away asks her mother, Jeanne, about Gabriel. Jeanne is shocked and then shows her a video of Madison when she was little and was talking to her imaginary friend, Gabriel.
Madison believes her imaginary friend has somehow made it outside into the real world. After this information is relayed to the detectives, they enlist the help of a psychiatrist who hypnotize Madison.
She is taken into the past and realizes her name isn't Madison but Emily May and that she was adopted. And when Sydney was about to be born, Emily was tricked by Gabriel into almost slicing open Jeanne's pregnant belly like a slice of cake. Madison believes now that Gabriel is trying to kill everyone she cares about.
Meanhile, the woman who was all tied up in an attic, manages to cut herself loose, but she steps on a soft spot on the floor and comes crashing down right into Madison's living room. Turns out the woman was being held in her attic all this time. Madison screams but with the woman in a coma, and all evidence against her, Madison is arrested.
MALIGNANT Ending Explained with Spoilers!
Sydney decides to find proof that her sister is innocent and decides to get to the bottom of who Gabriel really is. She heads to the now abandoned facility where Doctor Weaver used to work. There is no security guard and anyone can enter easily and access the patient files left conveniently behind.
It doesn't take Sydney too long to find Emily's file and video tapes. She takes it home to watch it with her mother who luckily owns a VCR. What they see, shocks them. The video is of Serena May too who admits that she was assaulted which resulted in Emily's birth. Serena agrees to give away the baby.
They are then shown that Emily was not an only child, but one of the twins. Gabriel was the malformed twin that was attached to her and was evil. Since they shared the same brain, he made Madison do terrible things. Dr Weaver decides to cut out the "cancer" which was Gabriel, after he went on a killing spree.
The operation is successful but a part of Gabriel is stuffed into Madison's skull where he lived dormantly, yet still influencing Madison and tricking her into killing unborn babies.
On the other side, Madison is being harassed by the inmates in the holding cell. They start beating her up which causes Gabriel to push out of her skull and take all the women down promptly. They then break out of the station and head to the hospital.
Sydney and the detectives reach the hospital, realizing that Serena is the next target since she didn't accept her son when he was born with Madison. But Madison has already taken down the entire precinct and the detectives are hardly any match for her inhuman strength.
But when he attacks Sydney, she tries to get Madison to come out, revealing that Gabriel has been causing her miscarriages because he was feeding on them for strength. Madison, who always wanted a baby, is enraged and we see her standing with her hands clenching.
Gabriel doesn't care about sentiments and shoots Sydney in the head before going after Serena and suffocating her with a pillow. She dies too. Gabriel is elated...except it was all mind tricks.
Madison brings Gabriel into a void where she announces she will be taking charge of her body now and Gabriel will never interfere in her life again. She puts Gabriel behind bars and leaves him.
When she awakens, Sydney is still pinned by the hospital bed and can't believe Madison can help her. Madison assures her that it wasn't all Gabriel and that her body has that hidden strength too. She lifts the bed and saves her sister. Her mother too has awakened and they all reconcile.
Madison, who always wanted a biological connection, tells Sydney that even though she isn't her real sister, she will always think of her as one. As they hug, a bulb in the corner flickers.
The movie is fast-paced, frankly a little crazy, but like I said before, it all comes together well, making it a highly enjoyable fare that will stick to your mind for a long time.
Scare scale: 4.5/5
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