While LAST SHIFT thrived on dead space and longer sequences of tension-building, MALUM cuts right to the point, over-explaining and muddling up plot points that worked best when left ominous and implied.
A hundred years ago a murderous woman named Sylvia killed her son in cold blood; it’s said that both Sylvia and her dead boy continue to haunt the dusty walls of this really fabulous Airbnb, which, of course, leads to an instantly-iconique séance (how could it not?)
While exploring a decrepit and abandoned facility, an auspicious photographer faces off against her traumatic past in John Pata's BLACK MOLD.
Yet Dracula sometimes seems on the verge of being crowded out of the movie.
Like many films that put a new spin on a traditional subject, it doesn’t spin that fresh take far enough.
