Malice began as a web series created by Philip J. Cook. Desperate for a fresh start after Nate Turner’s (Mark Hyde, who shows up in nearly all of Cook’s films) return from active duty in Afghanistan, the Turner family retreats to their late grandmother’s house in rural Virginia.

However, mother Jessie (Leanna Chamish) and their daughters Abbey (Rebekkah Johnson) and Alice (Brittany Martz) — who becomes the hero of this series — barely have time to unpack before all sorts of horrors show up, as the house is the gateway to another dimension.

Tensions start to ramp up as family members one at a time start to disappear. It’s up to Alice – the youngest and the one with the richest imagination — to solve the mysteries of her family’s plight and survive.

Basically, imagine Alice In Wonderland but made by someone in love with the idea of making everything a digital world, much less one that has a mushroom god living under a house and a father who bonds with his daughters by sharing a beer and shooting the heads off statues in a graveyard with an M16. Like everything. Cook has made, this is very much his own vision of what a movie should be and I wouldn’t have it any other way. The world has too many people willing to make movies that have the edges all sanded off that fit together in artificially perfect ways. When I seek out a movie made by Cook, I know that perhaps some things may not look real, but they end up being better than that, because they’re exactly what he wanted them to be.

I just wish I had been watching these episode by episode on the internet and waiting for the next episode as if it were a modern movie serial.

You can watch this on Tubi.