The Dark and the Wicked
2020, drama, horror, mystery
95 minutes
On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family.
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8.0
2020-11-18
It does just enough to not feel like its cashing in on others’ recent successes while also providing genre fans with an intensely creepy horror experience here in late 2020. Read more
7.0
2020-11-02
TD&TW has the long, slow, debilitating experience of parental illness on its mind. Like that film, this movie has a deeply aching center that makes the horror in the house as tragic as it is scary, and more horrifyingly, somehow inevitable. Read more
6.0
2021-02-22
With no rules established, Bertino's film feels like it's making up its mythology on the fly, and so it's difficult to get invested in a movie where anything can seemingly happen at any given time without rhyme or reason. Read more
5.0
2020-08-29
Given the lack of narrative reasoning for this evil, this reads as abjection for abjection’s sake, ugliness without motivation. Read more
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8.5
2020-12-02
Wij raden deze nieuwe film van Bryan Bertino zeker aan. Het geduld voor de rustige sfeervolle opbouw wordt snel beloond met goed getimede schrikeffecten en wat gore welke zal aankomen bij de kijker die zich in het verhaal heeft laten meeslepen. Read more
6.0
2020-11-30
The Dark and the Wicked vonden we bovengemiddeld prima met een goede cinematografie. Op enkele schrikmomenten na miste de film alleen wel de kracht en overtuiging om echt goed te zijn. Read more
6.0
2020-11-02
Het mag de pret echter niet drukken, want in het horrorgenre, met zoveel ondermaatse films, is The Dark and the Wicked een kleine verrassing. Read more
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