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Geek Girl Authority
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
Underrated Horror Movie of the Month: MALEVOLENT
Hello, horrorphiles! It is time, once again, to feature a fantastic film in Underrated Horror Movie of the Month. If you are new to the column, here's the scoop. On the second and fourth Friday of every month, I talk about a horror movie I feel is underrated and underloved. I am talking about the 2018 Netflix film Malevolent in today's edition. Stick around to see why I think this movie deserves more love. About Malevolent Brother and sister, Jackson (Ben Lloyd-Hughes) and Angela (Florence Pugh), run a phony paranormal investigation business. Together, they swindle grieving individuals into believing they are convincing their deceased loved ones to move on. Eventually, they take on a case that will change everything. As part of the ruse, Angela pretends to have a psychic ability that allows her to hear and communicate with the dead. During one 'investigation,' Angela sees something she can't explain, something no one else saw. After this incident, she begins experiencing more strange occurrences. Jackson takes on a big project featuring an old foster home where several children were brutally murdered, and everything goes downhill. RELATED: Underrated Horror Movie of the Month: White Noise As Angela learns more about the house's history and experiences the supernatural at an increasing rate, terrible events unfold. Are the issues ghosts from the past or flesh and blood haunting the present? Malevolent also stars Celia Imrie, Georgina Bevan, Scott Chambers and Steven McCole. Olaf de Fleur Johannesson directed, and Ben Ketai and Eva Konstantopoulos wrote the screenplay. This film has a 58 percent Tomatometer Score and a 17 percent Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes. My Thoughts The story is, admittedly, a bit predictable. However, there is a twist at the end that I found enjoyable. A hefty part of the plot is outlined in the premise. This fact does not eliminate the ability to anticipate what is coming. My thought is that a story worth telling is worth watching, even if you know what will happen. Even with the predictability, the storytelling, atmosphere and acting are worth watching. Along the same train of thought, the dialogue fits the tale nicely. It flows naturally and provides vital information about each character. It is easy to envision the conversations occurring outside of a television screen. RELATED: Horror With a Side of Cheese: Killer Klowns from Outer Space All of the actors did an admirable job on Malevolent . My least favorite character is Jackson, and I am unsure if it is the actor or how the character is written. Perhaps it is a bit of both. As always, Florence Pugh hits all of the nuances required of the character. Her terror from experiencing the supernatural is palpable, and her interactions with other characters are spot-on. The atmosphere is incredible; an edge-of-your-seat creepiness oozes from every scene. There are a few jump scares, but it is easy to see them coming if you are a horror lover. Nevertheless, eeriness prevails, and I found myself completely engaged throughout the film. Additionally, the sets are incredible and lend to the overall creep factor. RELATED: Geek Girl Authority Crush of the Week: Annie Sawyer My biggest complaint with Malevolent is that many scenes are pretty dark. I understand this is necessary given how the setting is portrayed, but it is difficult to fully appreciate smaller details when everything is so dark. Final Thoughts Alright, horror fans, that's another underrated horror movie in the books! Do I think this film is going to win awards for originality? No, but it is a fun and intriguing watch worth the time and effort. Malevolent is streaming on Netflix and is easily one of my favorite horror movies the platform has produced. Had I not already known this is a low-budget film, I would never have guessed. Have you seen this movie? Let me know in the comments. Also, tell me which movie you think I should feature next. Until next time, stay spooky and fabulous! Check out Malevolent 's trailer below before you go. BRING HER BACK Spoiler Review RELATED: Cecilia Lee on the Wild Ride That Is FEAR STREET: PROM QUEEN
The Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Celebrity Help! My House Is Haunted S5 line up revealed as 80s pop icon and TWO Coronation Street stars join cast
THE series five line up of Celebrity Help! My House Is Haunted has been revealed. A pop icon from the eighties and two stars from Coronation Street have joined the cast of the latest instalment of the hit show. 5 5 Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted features a team of paranormal experts who try to help out stars who believe their houses are haunted. Psychic Medium Ian Lawman, Tech Expert Barri Ghai, and Investigator Jayne Harris are all on hand to get to the bottom of the eerie and unexplainable phenomena. Following the success of the fourth series earlier this year, Discovery+ has commissioned an additional instalment. Six hour-long episodes will air on the platform with a lineup of new stars looking to uncover the chilling mysteries of their homes. The stars who will take part include two Corrie legends who will be well known to fans. Beverley Callard first made her debut as Rovers barmaid Liz McDonald in 1989. A number of on and off stints followed before she finally departed the show in 2020. Meanwhile, Antony Cotton still appears as Sean Tully in the long-running ITV soap and it seems that he'ss embarked on a new project away from the cobbles. Gary Numan, 67, known for his music in the 70's and 80's will also give both the experts and viewers a new look into his personal life. He's regarded as a pioneer for electronic music and is best known for chart-topping hits such as "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars." +++LEGAL REMOVAL+++Sven-Goran Eriksson's ex Nancy Dell'Olio breaks down in tears at funeral and says 'a part of my life is gone forever' The artist has sold over 10 million records worldwide and won the prestigious Inspiration Award at the Ivor Novellos in 2017. Completing the cast is Emmerdale actress and Dancing on Ice legend Suzanne Shaw, British Army veteran Simon Weston, and media personality Nancy Dell'Olio. Katrina Weidman is a renowned American paranormal investigator and she has joined the expert team as a new addition. From historic Highland castles to sprawling Italian masserias, the team will once again attempt to uncover the dark pasts of the mysterious buildings. The previous four series of the show are currently available to stream on the platform, before the new instalment drops in November. 5 5 5
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE What happened when I first met 'possessed' doll Annabelle will haunt me for the rest of my life
Annabelle has been an iconic haunted relic for many years. Now, paranormal experts share the disturbing experiences they had when meeting her for the first time. This month there has been renewed interest in the 'possessed' doll after she was taken on tour.
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- General
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE I had a premonition about how my grandad would die - no one believed I'd seen the future...but then it came true
In the summer of 1977, 12-year-old Andy Thomas watched from the window to see his mother approaching in floods of tears. At that moment, Mr Thomas knew that the bad news they'd be expecting was coming: his grandad was dead. As the family's holiday was interrupted by their sudden loss, Mr Thomas sat back and watched his grieving relatives, trying to process what had just happened. Then, without warning, Mr Thomas woke up back in his bed, relieved to discover that it had all been nothing more than a bad dream. 'It was one of those moments when you just think "thank god for that",' Mr Thomas told MailOnline. However, Mr Thomas's relief proved to be short-lived when he looked out of the window and saw his mother walking towards the house, once again in floods of tears. And much to his disbelief, he found that his premonition had come true - his grandad really had died. Mr Thomas says: 'Every single thing unfolded just exactly as I just dreamt it. Not even just slightly, it was the same thing, and I just re-lived it twice. I tried to tell people, but in all the chaos they just didn't want to hear it.' Mr Thomas, now a prolific paranormal investigator and author of STRANGE: Paranormal Realities in the Everyday World, says that even as a child he knew something was wrong. He says: 'I knew this wasn't normal, this wasn't right. I was watching everything unfold in front of me and I knew what everyone was going to say, who was going to do what, and who was going to walk across the room. 'It was exactly the same, everybody was just the same. The only difference was that I knew what was about to unfold.' This might sound a lot like déjà vu - a peculiar sense of familiarity for something you haven't experienced before. However, Mr Thomas insists that what he experienced that morning was something far more profound than a sense of familiarity. 'This wasn't just a passing feeling of "hang on, haven't I done this before", this was very precise,' Mr Thomas says. 'Déjà vu tends to occur for a few seconds, we're talking about something that went on for several minutes here.' Likewise, Mr Thomas says that he could accurately predict his family's actions, while studies have shown that experiencing déjà vu does not help you predict what will happen next. What is déjà vu? Déjà vu is a very common condition, with studies suggesting that about two-thirds of people experience it at least once in their lives. Scientists still aren't exactly sure what causes this strange feeling, but the explanation is decidedly not paranormal. The best theory is that déjà vu is caused when something goes wrong in a region of the brain called the medial temporal lobe, which controls creating memories and giving you the feeling of recalling something. When the brain gets overexcited it's possible that this region starts to signal that you're recalling a memory even while the memory is being formed. As the rest of the brain catches up with this false signal you get the strange sense of confusing similarity that characterises déjà vu. Whatever the cause, that strange morning turned out to be a pivotal point in his life that would forever change how he thought about brushes with strange phenomena. Mr Thomas says: 'This stuff gets rubbished and you're always told that it's a hallucination, but I've experienced enough myself to know that I have to be open-minded about it.' Now a full-time paranormal researcher and author, Mr Thomas says he has spoken to 'hundreds' of people at events across the country who report similar experiences. While he says that ghost sightings are the most common paranormal experience people report, many others have had similar moments of what Mr Thomas calls 'precognition'. In one incident reported to Mr Thomas, a woman named Janet Tucker was woken the night before a car trip by a terrible nightmare in which she saw her mother being pulled through a window by paramedics. The next day, the family campervan was struck by a car at a crossroads and veered off the road into a brick wall. As emergency services arrived and Janet climbed from the wreckage, she looked back in horror to see paramedics pulling her mother through the campervan's sliding doors - just as she had seen in her dream. Mr Thomas believes that precognitions may be far more common than is openly acknowledged as people hide their stories due to the fear of being seen as crazy. Mr Thomas says: 'This is happening on a really everyday basis to somebody somewhere. 'I think the more we speak openly about this, I think the more people are going to come forward, and we're going to discover that actually, this kind of stuff is going on a far more regular basis than we know.' However, even though Mr Thomas is a staunch believer in the supernatural, he still believes that a scientific explanation is possible. 'On one level there is no such thing as the paranormal, it's just something that science hasn't explained yet,' says Mr Thomas. 'I love science, but it needs to apply itself to things that have previously been assumed to be not worth consideration. Mr Thomas currently believes that the scientific explanation for his premonitions of death could come from the world of quantum physics. Cutting-edge research is now showing that, in quantum physics, the future can affect the past in a process called 'retrocausality'. In some experiments, researchers have found that a pulse of light can sometimes appear to spend 'negative time' passing through a material - emerging before it enters the other side. For some researchers, this has called into doubt the fundamental assumption that time moves in one direction with cause always preceding effect. Some scientists even believe that ditching the idea of time as a one-way street is the only way to solve some of the fundamental problems of quantum physics. Mr Thomas believes that these quantum concepts could explain how some people seem to access information from the future. He says: 'If you look at what quantum research is suggesting, time doesn't run from A to B; it can go in either direction. I suspect that there's a general flow of time but if you chuck a stone, a big event sends ripples back and you just briefly pick them up when time gets stuck in a groove.' It is important to bear in mind that retrocausation has only been observed in extremely specific experiments under laboratory conditions and scientists don't think it would allow for memories to travel backwards in time. Likewise, retrocausation only affects the measurable states of quantum scale particles like photons, not big objects like human brains. However, for Mr Thomas, the goal is not necessarily to provide a definitive explanation for these experiences but, rather, to encourage scientists to consider them something worth trying to explain. He says: 'We are brought up with certain attitudes and told, this is the way the world works but can we, just for a minute, put aside the sceptical thing and ask: "What else could be going on here".' WHAT IS QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT? In quantum physics, entangled particles remain connected so that actions performed by one affects the behaviour of the other, even if they are separated by huge distances. This means if you measure, 'up' for the spin of one photon from an entangled pair, the spin of the other, measured an instant later, will be 'down' - even if the two are on opposite sides of the world. Entanglement takes place when a part of particles interact physically. For instance, a laser beam fired through a certain type of crystal can cause individual light particles to be split into pairs of entangled photons. The theory that so riled Einstein is also referred to as 'spooky action at a distance'. Einstein wasn't happy with theory, because it suggested that information could travel faster than light.
Telegraph
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Yorkshire, farmers and now ghost-hunting: Could this show be any more Channel 5?
The Yorkshire Vet: at Home with the Greens could only be more Channel 5 if Jane McDonald turned up at the end to belt out a tune. The broadcaster loves Yorkshire in general, Yorkshire farming shows in particular, and always refuses to take itself too seriously. So how about a Yorkshire farming show in which a bunch of paranormal investigators try to contact a ghost in the cow shed? The stars of this programme – a spin-off from The Yorkshire Vet, which is now in its 21st series – are Jean and Steve Green. Steve is 96 and Jean is 73. He is quite possibly the oldest working farmer in the country; she, rather incongruously, wears a bright pink hoodie with googly eyes on it. They're great characters, and I bet the producers couldn't believe their luck when they stumbled across them. The Greens were clients of Alf Wight, better known as James Herriot, and still tend animals on their farm just outside Thirsk, including calves named Toffee and Apple. Where Jean used to stand at the gate and look onto pure countryside, her fields are now bordered by row upon row of newbuild houses. 'All they do nowadays is build, build, build. There'll be no green acres left,' she laments. In many ways, she and Steve live the same life they did 50 years ago, with few modern comforts. Not in all ways, though. Jean has a mobile phone on which she thinks she has captured pictures of ghostly goings-on. Jean and Steve also believe spirits are visiting the farm and leaving behind a smell of fish and chips. They report this in an utterly matter-of-fact way, which makes it all the more enjoyable. Cue a visit from West Yorkshire Paranormal, ghostbusters whose equipment looks as if it was bought from a toy shop but who keep straight faces throughout. The voice-over informs us that Jean called them in, and only a cynic would suggest this was really the brainchild of a production team keen to fill the episode with something daft. The greatest weakness of the series is how contrived it can feel. A fly-on-the-wall documentary showing the reality of their lives would have been just grand. The vet, Peter Wright (trained by Herriot himself), is clearly very fond of the couple, seeing them often and giving them fish and chip shop vouchers for their wedding anniversary. We see a lot of him and of another vet, Matt Smith, whose jobs this week include castrating a sugar glider. I'm pretty sure you won't have seen that particular operation on TV before. 'The angriest little animal known to man,' said Smith, although it's unclear whether that goes for sugar gliders en masse or just this one. One of the joys of the internet is that you can look up programmes from decades ago when they pop back into your head. At Home with the Greens brought to mind Hannah Hauxwell and I sought out Too Long a Winter, the Yorkshire TV documentary which first brought her to national attention. It's all there on YouTube, beautifully-shot and gimmick-free.
