It was “Malum” (Latin for evil) another weak, thin horror that promised far more on paper than it ended up delivering. The young British actress Jessica Sula, who made her debut in the cult “Skins” as a teenager, is finally having a one-woman show. She is a young police officer, Jessica Lauren, and her father was also a police officer. He died exactly one year before the action of “Maluma” takes place, and we learn how, not why, right away in the prologue. Father was killed shortly after taking part in a raid on members of a cult of demon worshipers who were offering human sacrifices. And the unfortunate Jessica was assigned to be on duty alone at the police station where gruesome things happened a year earlier, and she too will not be spared the horrors.
When someone says the words alone in an old police station, Carpenter’s iconic “Attack on the Police Station” immediately comes to mind, but a certain Anthony DiBlasi decided to take a different route. Admittedly, all kinds of scumbags will start coming to Jessica’s police station, but besides the fact that “Malum” was quite brutal and bloody, unfortunately he was also boring, I even think I fell asleep at one point. And when it comes to horror, boredom is one of the deadly sins that cannot be forgiven even with a thousand Lord’s Prayers and Hail Marys, so even “Malum” could not possibly deserve a better rating.