I watched Blind Malice when it came out on Amazon Prime, marked as a 2016 movie. When I had finished watching, as usual I hopped over here to IMDb to check the reviews and message boards, and to ask some questions. It's all blank! (As of 3/14/16 at least.) How can this be? Blind Malice is a fairly good murder mystery, and the way it's filmed and edited puts the viewer in the lead actress' place pretty well.

Gracie is partially blind, but can see some light and dark. She's fairly well-skilled in getting around and can trace over writing on paper to "read" some of the letters. Gracie and her grandmother go on a trip to clear out one of her father's rental properties. While there, the grandmother heads out to a store for a few things, and Gracie runs outside after the family dog, gets turned around a bit, but a stranger in the woods saves her from injuring herself. Gracie's no prude, and smokes a joint while her grandmother is out.

Around bedtime, Grandma realizes she forgot to get cigarettes. Gracie takes sedatives for trauma - from all the flashbacks she starts having, we learn that she had lived in this house before. Between the sedatives and the pot, Gracie nods off in the bath - and this is where the movie really begins. What's really happening? Why did the stranger come in the house, what happened to Grandma? Wait, what?! I tried to follow the plot, again ... and again ... and again. The movie really twists and turns. It gets very disturbingly violent for a while. There's a thread of a child-molestation scandal all throughout the movie, at different depths - it gets deep. The ending was pretty powerful, and somewhat redemptive.

The best thing about Blind Malice is the film-making. It's shot and edited to let you experience the world much as Gracie does. While not always totally distorted, the film is dark, sometimes blurry, sometimes grainy during regular scenes, just enough so you can never quite see everything properly. I found myself leaning forward, squinting, turning my head, then realized that's what Gracie was doing, so bravo for that! Also, the sounds are recorded and edited so that we hear much more background and ambient noise than usual, I imagine it's similar to the heightened sound sense of a blind person, The more stressed Gracie is, the worse the picture and the louder the tiniest sounds, which makes it downright scary and unnerving at time. Never thought one simple footstep could hold so much meaning! It made me creepily aware of every sound all that night and the next day.

Overall, I think this is a good horror/thriller with enough plot twists to satisfy. It's slow-paced, then plunges forward like a roller coaster out of control. Just when you think you've got it all figured out, it's just another "cabin in the woods" flick, NOPE, think again.

The actress who portrays Gracie is so interesting, I was riveted by her the entire movie. She really made me feel for her.