Malevolent is a 2018 British horror film directed by Olaf de Fleur Johannesson from a screenplay by Ben Ketai and Eva Konstantopoulos, based on the novel Hush by Konstantopoulos. The film centers on a team of scam artists who are making money from faked paranormal encounters. During an assignment at a country house, the team get more than they bargained for and one by one, they begin to lose grip on reality. The film stars Florence Pugh, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Scott Chambers, Georgina Bevan, James Cosmo, and Celia Imrie. It was released on 5 October 2018 by Netflix. Plot In 1986 Scotland, Angela and Jackson are American siblings who, with a small team of paranormal investigators, run a fake medium scam on clients who believe their houses are haunted. The team uses the reputation of the siblings' late mother to promote Angela's powers as a medium. Jackson orchestrates the scams because of a debt he owes to loan sharks. During their latest assignment, strange incidents occur, causing Angela to worry about the parallels to her mother, who heard voices and wound up committing suicide because she saw people who weren't there. A new client, Mrs. Greene, requests they come to stop the girls' "screaming." Angela is too disturbed and shaken from their last assignment so she turns down the request; she looks into the history of the caller's house and discovers that the owner’s foster children were all found dead with their mouths sewn shut 15 years prior, and her son was blamed. Jackson, needing the money to pay off the loan sharks, agrees to the job, despite reluctance from his sister. Jackson and his team of technicians formulate a plan to con Mrs. Greene. While Elliot (the cameraman) films Angela around the mansion, she sees spirits of the murdered girls and follows them into the restricted East Wing where the floor collapses under Elliot's feet. He falls and injures his foot, and in his rescue Jackson and Angela discover the place where the girls had been kept. Mrs. Greene informs Jackson that they have failed and she believes them to be scam artists. It becomes apparent that Jackson has been seeing things himself (previously using drugs and headphones to block it out), and finally decides to abandon the job after Mrs. Greene implies that she was involved in the girls' murders. Jackson finds Beth, his technician/girlfriend, unconscious with her mouth