For some reason a person possessed by a demon sounds kind of sexy in a southern accent 😍😜.

Come outsaad.. come outsaad...

The dark and the wicked starts up pretty strong creating a really amazing atmosphere even showing us a quick glimpse of a mysterious presence but.... starts getting mediocre by the minute with only a few good scares and good performances ultimately drowning itself into ambiguity for no reason.

Let's butcher the plot shall we, you are definitely focusing on building character thats obvious but your characters aren't doing much in it instead they just keep getting boring and stupid as you reach the finale, now the other problem, why all the weird things are even happening in the…

Imagine Heriditary meets The Witch meets Insidious, but don't hold it to those standards, because it's not at any of those movie's levels. But few are, so you can be pretty good and not be at that level.

And I'm not at all saying this movie is a knockoff as a detriment, because when those influences are in full swing is when this movie is firing.

But for each time I'm ready to declare The Dark and Wicked a masterpiece, it frustrates with some standard bullshit scare like you see someone in the background, look back, they're gone, and NOW THEY'RE RIGHT NEXT TO YOU.

I hate the term elevated horror, but I'm gonna use it anyways because I'm lazy,…

“Because you were home” is still a chilling phrase twelve years later. Bryan Bertino burst onto the horror scene with The Strangers, a divisive film but one exploring a real fear: home invasion. Bertino’s latest horror film as writer and director, The Dark and the Wicked, is also about a home invasion. While the intruders aren’t killers wearings marks, a family on a secluded farm is still plagued by someone or something hell-bent on killing them. But unlike the protagonists in The Strangers, this family, no matter how hard they try, cannot hide or defend themselves because what has invaded their home is something they can’t see. It’s not only evil in human form that preys at night. 

The image…

I think we've finally hit the point where films like The VVitch, The Babadook and Hereditary are noticably spawning countless knock-offs. What once felt fresh is beginning to feel stale. Bryan Bertino is a filmmaker who I think has always shown promise but never quite been successful in his efforts. Like all of his previous work, The Dark and the Wicked is an utterly joyless experience that has no story to tell and is largely a series of individual spooky episodes.

The tension and suspense is decently done but almost all of the visuals are direct ripped from other, better movies. Because of this, almost all of it's "surprises" felt telegraphed. I have seen the spooky naked old person in…

Those who have been following me for a while now have probably gotten tired of reading me saying how much I am all cool about horror movies that don't precisely have shivering and inducing me nightmares as long as the story and its execution are well done, I am all for it. A prime example of that is IT, a film that didn't have peeing my pants but I adore the filmmaking.

In many ways, this film falls within the same category. The jump scares and weak narrative hurts the movie in many ways, its technical work like cinematography and the way every death scene and gnarly, gory moments are done (especially the finger cutting one) were pretty effective on…

"I know he's there in the darkness. Help me. Help me, please."

'The Dark and the Wicked,' Bryan Bertino's latest film, is simmering with fear, dread and impending doom, but unfortunately, those are the only heights it reaches, and rarely so. Packed with apparitions, hallucinations and the occasional, expected jump scare, it's a surprisingly weak film, filled with repetitious attitudes and actions - investigating creaking floors, answering mysterious, late night phone calls, jumping at the sight of unearthly encounters - that the two leads never, ever learn from, until it's way too late. With countless signs and hints thrown their way that things are clearly not what they seem, no matter how ominous, blunt or supernatural, they stick with it,…

I enjoyed the dark and the wicked, I thought I was creepy and disturbing but ultimately it was missing something. I really can't put my finger on what it is either, but I'm going to try.

I love a good slow burn but I actually had to restart this movie twice because I was just not paying attention and felt like I was missing plot. It took restarting it twice to discover that I wasn't really missing any plot because there's not a lot here. There is absolutely zero character development, we know nothing about this family or why they are not close, we know nothing about this particular possession or why it's happening or even how long it has…