Malevolence (2004)

Interesting facts

Malevolence is a 2003 American slasher film written, produced and directed by Stevan Mena, and starring Samantha Dark and R. Brandon Johnson. The plot follows a mother and her adolescent daughter who are held hostage by bank robbers at an abandoned house; the robbers' plans are disrupted when they are all confronted by a serial killer who resides on a nearby property.

Production

Writer and director Stevan Mena began working on the script for the film in 1995, which went through various iterations. In it, he said his intentions were to craft a slasher film that also explored the idea of nature versus nurture in relation to how people become serial killers.

Samantha Dark, a British actress, was cast in the lead role of Samantha after responding to a casting call published by Mena in Backstage. Her character was originally written to have a New Jersey accent, but Mena opted to have Dark speak with her natural British accent. Mena cast his niece, Courtney Bertolone, as Samantha's daughter.

According to actor R. Brandon Johnson, he was the last of 400 actors to audition for the role of Julian.

Principal photography of Malevolence took place over a period of two years between late 2000 and December 2002. The film was shot on 35mm film by documentary cinematographer Tsuyoshi Kimono, who had previously shot documentaries for the television network A&E.

The majority of filming took place in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The bank robbery scenes were shot in Allentown, and additional photography in the car scenes was shot in Bethlehem. The farm and slaughterhouse property was shot at an actual abandoned cattle farm and slaughterhouse built in 1920, located in Ballietsville.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.