Review of The Dark and the Wicked (2020) by Soleil83 — 02 Feb 2021
Depicting terrible things happening to people is a necessary part of horror. Bad things happening to people is not, in and of itself, horror. This movie doesn’t know the difference. In this film, a series of unfortunate events, both real and imagined, torment a family and their neighbors.
Also, a phone rings incessantly. A brother and sister are visiting their dying father and a checklist of horror tropes ensues. Jump scares that turned out to be dreams/ hallucinations - check. Animals sensing an evil entity and eventually being killed by it - check.
People staying in an obviously haunted house long past the point where any reasonable person would have left - check (although they offer a flimsy excuse about not being able to move the dad). In the end, the characters suffer and die and there is no entertainment value in any of it.
Times have been hard for a year now, and there is a lot of real life suffering in our faces every day. Maybe movie makers can pivot away from the misery porn and give us a break.
This review of The Dark and the Wicked (2020) was written by Soleil83 on 02 Feb 2021.
The Dark and the Wicked has generally received positive reviews.
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