8 Terrible Performances That Almost Ruined Recent Movie Scenes

8. Annabelle Wallis - Malignant

A couple of weeks after seeing it, I'm still not entirely sure which parts of Malignant were supposed to be hammy and kinda bad on purpose, and which parts were the result of regular old bad filmmaking.

You see, that's partly because James Wan's latest is a big, daft B-Movie, full of crazy, bloody set-pieces and a whole bunch of references to similarly outlandish Giallo movies from decades past.

Lead Annabelle Wallis for the most part does an admirable job attempting to thread the needle of this precarious tone, and manages to nail most of the emotional beats. Where she falls down though is the climactic sequences where - vague spoilers incoming - she vanquishes the evil that's been causing so much trouble for the rest of the film.

This confrontation is supposed to be epic, but Wallis kind of seems just a bit annoyed rather than seething, and it undermines some of the horror the ending otherwise could have had.

With the entire cast often going from over-the-top to flat in a second, it's unclear who's at fault for the strange acting choices across the board: the director, the actors, the script, or all three?