Paying homage to films such as HALLOWEEN and THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, MALEVOLENCE aims to return to the gritty, unironic style of those horror pictures. The film begins as a crime thriller, with three bank robbers whose plan goes awry, forcing them to take a young mother and her daughter as hostages. Fleeing the scene of the crime, the crooks and their captives hide in a rural farmhouse. But little do the innocent hostages know that next door lurks an even greater danger than common criminals, a danger that begins to eliminate them one by one. MALEVOLENCE marks the directorial debut of Stevan Mena.