Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Fella_shibby I was really looking forward to this prequel to 2004s Malevolence, and found the movie to b good but very gory compared to Malevolence. The premise of the movie is great and disturbing. The films ending is pretty disturbing, brutal, bloody n has a real suspenseful feel. Editing by Mena is not good for this flick. Maybe he shud hav stuck with the previous guy Eddie Akmal. However, the icing on this bloody cake is the amazing cinematography by Marco Cappeta. Rolling green grass, lonely dead trees, and blazing red sunsets can be found throughout Bereavement, and it evokes a strange combination of tranquility and underlying danger. It has JOHN savage (summer of Sam, Orphan killer, Deer hunter). Michael biehn (terminator, alien, Tombstone). Alexandra daddario (Texas chainsaw massacre 3D, True detective).

jackmeat My quick rating - 5,4/10. Glad I watched this first, so now I can watch the flicks in order. I actually didn't know they were related films before I started watching, so works out well. The story is about what turned a child into becoming a serial killer. This follows the journey the child was forced to take, molding him into what he becomes. The subject matter is a bit over the top but gets its point across well. The acting is not top notch but passable enough. The characters that are basically fed to the killer are more or less just there to further the story. I did enjoy this as a stand alone and now am looking forward to watching Malevolence and also "Killer:Malevolence 3" when it comes out.

robert-sheyd2-112-623709 Saw this on the horror channel and there's Lots of blood and gore with many graphic kills but movie is boring only good thing about it is Michael Biehn. ***********************contains spoilers*************************Basically a serial killer who is a carbon copy off buffalo bill is kidnapping and butchering teenage girls and makes some young boy who he kidnapped earlier watch all his crimes and help him so he's basically grooming him into his replacement therefore the ending is a foregone conclusion. I would say its only worth watching if nothing else is on and you really are bored otherwise there is far better in the slasher genre out there. 4/10

rivertam26 I was a big fan of the fllm Malevolence of which this film is a prequel too. Well despite some better production values it doesn't even hold a candle to that film. Filled with an unnecessary amount of violence overkill we learn the roots of how the killer in the first one came to be. The other actors/victims in the film are decently developed and are surprisingly solid for a genre film. The direction and screenplay are the problem film. Besides looking gorgeous the film doesn't any real gratification the killers story is somewhat developed but the real truth is never explored. The film is kept as realistic as possible and is very mean. Building characters only to tear them down brutally for no real reason. the evolution of the events aren't very satisfying and the over abundance of shameless gore and pointless nudity feels crude. The best thing I can say about the whole downer experience is that it's well made and looks pretty besides that there's not much to offer here that you haven't seen before and explored more in depth and less bitingly.