The Dark and the Wicked

Name: The Dark and the Wicked
Genre: Horror
Released: November 6, 2020
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Chris Doubek, Ella Ballentine, Julie Oliver-Touchstone, Lynn Andrews, Marin Ireland

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RLJE Films | Release Date: November 6, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Chris Doubek, Ella Ballentine, Julie Oliver-Touchstone, Lynn Andrews, Marin Ireland, Mel Cowan, Michael Abbott Jr., Mindy Raymond, Tom Nowicki, Xander Berkeley

Summary: On a secluded farm, a man is slowly dying. Bedridden and fighting through his final breaths, his wife is slowly succumbing to overwhelming grief. To help their mother and say goodbye to their father, siblings Louise (Marin Ireland) and Michael (Michael Abbott Jr.) return to their family farm. It doesn’t take long for them to see thatOn a secluded farm, a man is slowly dying. Bedridden and fighting through his final breaths, his wife is slowly succumbing to overwhelming grief. To help their mother and say goodbye to their father, siblings Louise (Marin Ireland) and Michael (Michael Abbott Jr.) return to their family farm. It doesn’t take long for them to see that something’s wrong with mom, though—something more than her heavy sorrow. Gradually, as their own grief mounts, Louise and Michael begin suffering from a darkness similar to their mother’s, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over their family.… Expand

Director: Bryan Bertino

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Michael Roffman

Nov 4, 2020

It’s a visceral piece of horror that’s as bleak as it is beautiful. Read full review

Slashfilm Kalyn Corrigan

Nov 4, 2020

Make no mistake about it, The Dark and the Wicked is by far the scariest movie at the Fantasia Film Festival, and its due in large part to Ireland’s neurotic catatonia. You find yourself holding your breath, waiting to see what spine-chilling event hovers just ahead, hiding behind a dark corner. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Nov 5, 2020

Pitiless in its intent, and hopeless in its sense of sorrowful dereliction, The Dark and the Wicked fully earns its horrifically distressing final scenes. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Nov 4, 2020

This is the Devil’s story. The Dark and the Wicked is Satan entertaining himself with the dread of those he could kill in an instant if he wanted. But he doesn’t. He wants them to endure an agony they never thought possible and for us to question the veracity of what we see. Read full review

Michael Ordoña

Nov 5, 2020

It isn’t exactly terrifying, but is well-acted and sinister enough to rise (levitate ominously?) above the pack. Read full review

Maggie Lee

Sep 18, 2020

Ireland conveys subtle differences between paranoia and white-knuckled fear with an appealing fragility, while Oliver-Touchstone invites sympathy and disquiet with just a few twitches of her wrinkles. However, the glaring absence of any background to the main characters’ lives and relationships gives the cast less to work with than they deserve. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Nov 4, 2020

Despite a strong start, Bertino’s grim and gruesome The Dark and the Wicked never coalesces into anything more than a collection of chilling images and a paper-thin logic. Read full review

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firstmode

Nov 29, 2020

Holy **** - watch this movie. Seen it twice and it is a masterpiece...

I have seen other films the director has been involved with - but this one is on another level.