The Wretched

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The Wretched

2020

1h 35m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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500+ Ratings

A defiant teenage boy, struggling with his parent's imminent divorce, faces off with an old witch who has possessed the neighbor next door.

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Critics Consensus

The Wretched stirs up a savory blend of witch-in-the-woods horror ingredients that should leave genre fans hungry for a second helping from writer-directors Brett and Drew T. Pierce.

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Mark Kermode

Kermode & Mayo's Film Review

05/11/2020

There's a good balance of firmness and entertaining. Creepy thrills and atmospheric chills, for a pretty modest horror film I thought it did the job pretty well.

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Simran Hans

Observer (UK)

05/11/2020

3/5

There's something appealing about its modest ambitions, with its cast of unknowns, relative low stakes and retro jump scares.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

05/06/2020

2/5

A non-frightening muddle.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Jul 29

3/5

...growing up is scary enough, but with a decent plot twist up their sleeve, the makers of The Wretched don’t quite expand their big idea to form a striking, foreboding world in the way that a classic horror can...

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Travis Johnson

Blunt Magazine

Jul 3

This is a fun, pacy piece of horror cinema.

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Jordy Sirkin

Jordy Reviews It

10/02/2022

THE WRETCHED has so much working in its favor, but it needed to be more fine-tuned to avoid some tone issues and plot holes.

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Chealsy G

@Chealsz 1d

This movie was the equivalent of a white boy going to sleep and dreaming about how he was going to save his highschool crush. Cornball central. Glad he hit puberty at the end though 🩷.

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SBJ T.

@brasebabb Jan 11

He got his cast wet

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Anthony M

@Anthony700 Jan 6

Often times the movie feels predictable, other times the plot moves forward nonsensically with a few holes. That being said I didn’t hate it there were a few parts that I found creepy and at times it built suspense, I enjoyed the plot twist at the end. Maybe not something a horror connoisseur would praise but good enough to throw on and enjoy.

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Downriver R.

@Downriver Nov 19

Great horror movie. I've seen this a few times. Good acting/great cast/great story

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David W.

@ObjectiveHorrorGuy Nov 17

Great potential but halfway through the pacing goes from 0 to 60 (in a bad way). The twist made me go “Oh!” but after five seconds of thinking on it made me go “Naa, that’s dumb.” Very good special effects though.

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Timothy B

@Timothy_Brown Nov 11

Pretty good for an unashamed ripoff of the Wytches comic books.

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Synopsis

A defiant teenage boy, struggling with his parent's imminent divorce, faces off with an old witch who has possessed the neighbor next door.

Director: Brett Pierce, Drew T. Pierce
Producer: Ed Polgardy, Drew T. Pierce, Chang Tseng
Screenwriter: Brett Pierce, Drew T. Pierce
Distributor: IFC Midnight
Production Co: Cailleach Productions
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 1, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 29, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.8M
Runtime: 1h 35m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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