The Dark and the Wicked

Good atmosphere and some tension moments, but the script makes no effort to explain why everything happens, resulting in a shallow film.

Does for farming what Lawnmower Man did for virtual reality psychology. Not really. The film is draped in atmosphere and it needs to be at its glacier pace, but the atmosphere that I watched it in with a talkative house guest prevented me entirely from getting into the groove of it. If patience is a virtue than heroes may love this.

The Babadook 2: The Twilight Years. Having to take care of ailing parents is certainly a good source of tension, and this certainly builds a very effective atmosphere, but at some point it just feels like "something is happening for some reason and it can do anything at any time" and I find myself just watching actors act scared.

It has some creepy scenes, it starts well, but it doesn’t maintain its atmosphere. Other than the suicides, the script doesn’t make sense of any of the scares. There aren’t any kind of “rules” for the ghosts/demons, they just do whatever. There are some good moments, but they’re held together by a mediocre script. Personally, I’d say The Strangers and The Monster are both better films from Bertino.

It floors me people are not completely fed up with this type of horror movie. It has zilch to add to the genre and is just a hilariously predictable collection of tropes with barely any coherence. And then it gets generally positive reviews? I understand the investors perspective as they want a profit and don't care about art, but are deeply uncurious viewers really so braindead and addicted to this formula that they will binge on the same 20 jumpscares over and over again for a CENTURY?

Holy F*^$. Very slow start, but these are some pretty extreme horror scenes. Not a lot is explained, but I can tell you that you will not feel very pleasant at the end.

What if Hereditary was actually good or The Exorcist gets a contemporary take on rural Texas. Of course devil lives in deep America and this family is about to get totally obliterated by a nameless, faceless, out-of-context evil presence while they wait their dying father to finally die. Some good atmospheric, gruesome horror stuff about grief and trauma -- that's why the few but band jump scares just feel so clumsy, like the stupid final one. Ireland is awesome.

okay movie

I think the audience is so addicted to the formula itself by this point, that even a script this exceptionally uninvolving and stupid is forgiven. Why? You've seen these ghost-face-jump-scares and gore-turning-out-to-be-imaginary a gazillion times before. The allegories are inane. It's about as scary as the Care Bears. Why is there still a market for this same old same old?

Boring, dreadfully paced and never succeeds in building any real tension.

Has some excellent individual scenes but doesn't cohere into something great, in comparison to something like Hereditary (interesting that another user feels the exact opposite). It's a bit nebulous as to why; in part because the characters are so straightforward it's hard to identify with them as well as feeling too passive.

It had it's up and downs. Wasn't great but not terrible either.

On a remote farm in the countryside, a man is lying on his deathbed. His two children have traveled to the parental home to say goodbye to him. However, Louise and Michael endure nightmares and have a bad feeling about what is in store for them. They are surrounded by darkness.

Doesn’t completely work for me, but flipping the idea of trauma in modern horror to be used against a person is a pretty smart and refreshing idea.

It's high end horror with top of the line atmosphere

Had some creepy parts, but overall did not seem to have a lot of rhyme or reason.

Entertaining, contains some good old-fashioned demon related creepiness. If you want some cheap and forgettable scares, this one is not bad.

Genuinely scary.

Tür içinde degerlendirirsek eğer çok çok başarılı bir yapım. Uygun koşulları sağlarsınız film kesinlikle üzerine düşeni fazlasıyla yapıyor. Ne bu uygun koşullar? Bir kere ses efektleri filmin yarısı. Ya yuksek volumde kaliteli bir ses sistemi ile olmadı kaliteli bir kulaklık ile o da olmadı en azından sesi kısmak zorunda kalmadığınız bir zamanda ve tabi ki karanlık bir ortamda izlemelisiniz.

The Dark and the Wicked, tansiyon, atmosfer ve ses kullanımın, korku filmi üzerindeki etkisini en iyi şekilde gösteriyor. Sürpriz olan veya yeni diyebileceğiniz bir meseleyi merkezine almıyor ama öyküleştirmeyi, sapasağlam bir kasvetli tonla pekiştiriyor, böylelikle ürkütücülüğü de harika bir şekilde sağlıyor.

Very creepy, minimalist movie, kinda gets bored of itself at the end. If you want anything explained, don't watch this.

An exercise in slow, sometimes effective, creepiness that doesn't make any sense. I have never yelled, "Get out of the house!" so often at a movie before.

accurate depiction of what it's like to take care of an old person