Director: Anthony DiBlasi
The last shift inside a police station that's already been shut down sounds like a formality — in Malum, it turns into a rookie officer's confrontation with the case that killed her father. Anthony DiBlasi's 2023 horror film keeps most of its scares confined to that single decommissioned building overnight.
What is Malum about?
Officer Jessica, played by Jessica Sula, volunteers for the final overnight shift at a police station set for closure, and the choice is not incidental: her father, also an officer, died there under circumstances that were never fully explained. As the hours pass, isolated inside the building with dwindling contact to the outside, she starts piecing together a pattern connecting his death to a cult that had crossed the department's path years earlier. What begins as a routine, almost bureaucratic assignment slides into a night where the station's empty hallways stop feeling empty, and the line between department history and something closer to ritual gets harder to hold onto. The film builds its tension mostly through sound design and confined spaces rather than jump-scare frequency, keeping its cast small and its setting fixed.
Cast & crew
Jessica Sula leads as the rookie officer working the case alone, with Candice Coke, Chaney Morrow, Clarke Wolfe, Morgan Lennon, Valerie Loo, and Eric Olson filling out the station's small overnight roster and the flashback threads tied to the cult.
Context & significance
Director Anthony DiBlasi built Malum as an expansion of his own 2014 short film Last Shift, returning to the same decommissioned-station premise with a longer runtime and a wider cast of supporting characters. The 2023 release sits in the confined-location strand of American horror, where a single building doubles as both crime scene and haunted space across the course of one night.
Where & how to watch
Malum is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, part of a Farsi-focused streaming lineup built for Persian-speaking audiences abroad. A free K-Time account login is required to watch; browsing this page does not require signing in.